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- Title
How Hope and Opportunity were Squandered: Ferries and Shipyard Regeneration on Inverclyde.
- Authors
Kemp, Kenny
- Abstract
In 2015 Ferguson's, the only remaining shipyard on the Lower Clyde, was awarded the contract to build two passenger ferries for the Hebridean routes. The vessels are uncompleted, the MV Glen Sannox having been 'launched' in 2017, and Hull 802 much further behind. Delivery is already five years overdue, and costs have spiralled to an estimated £350m: a staggering amount that might have been spent in better ways. Whilst the underlying story is likely to remain unknown without a full public inquiry, this essay recounts how the story has developed, how the project sank into rancorous failure, and the ways in which the people of Inverclyde have been sold short yet again.
- Subjects
GLASGOW (Scotland); FERRIES; CONSTRUCTION contracts; SHORT selling (Securities); SHIPYARDS; HOPE; SHIPBUILDING
- Publication
Scottish Affairs, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 3, p365
- ISSN
0966-0356
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/scot.2023.0469