Ferry lifeline for Ferguson

Western Ferries, which operates from Dunoon to Gourock, has placed a £500,000 order for a roll on/roll off terminal with Ferguson’s yard on the river Clyde in Scotland.

The Port Glasgow yard had to pay off about 100 workers after it lost out on a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry order to the Polish yard of Gdansk Stocznia Remontowa. The Polish yard also beat it to a fisheries protection vessel contract. A spokesman for Ferguson welcomed the Western Ferries order saying it gave the yard breathing space.