Scotland ferries crisis hurting tourism and whisky trade
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2024
- Ferries are a vital lifeline for Scotland's island communities. But a failure to replace the national operator CalMac's ageing fleet has caused major disruption for islanders - harming tourism and the valuable whisky trade.
(Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)
Two new ferries are so delayed and over budget that today, the boss of the state-owned shipyard tasked with building them was sacked. And other new ferries are being built in Turkey.
-----------------------
Follow us:
Facebook - / channel4news
Twitter - / channel4news
TikTok - / c4news
Instagram - / channel4news
Wait, did I hear that right? The Turkish built ferries are on time and on budget, while the scottish ones cost 4 times from the original budget and yet to be completed?!! I don't actually mind that much if they cost 4 times more, it were built 4 times faster, but the turkish ones are due in October while FM still haven't delivered theirs despite started building them earlier!! Infuriating.
british industry is terrible unfortunately.
@@noahhughes2501 get rid of the union; there was a time long ago unions are necessary, now they know they are God and nobody can touch them.
@@noahhughes2501WHEN run by an Incompetent SNP Government. Scottish Necrosis Party, Killing Scotland Day after Day.
You get the government you deserve..... very sad.
SNP bashing for this “ferry fiasco”…channel 4 should really be less bias with their choice of words, I thought they were better than tabloid journalism. Anyway, this issue relates to procurement and suppliers, not to SNP total incompetence. Anger directly to the SNP here is just from politically charged tories throwing their toys out the pram. There’s government failure from procurement all over the U.K. and the world from governments of left & right persuasion. This is not a singular issue affecting the SNP and to suggest it’s an SNP fiasco is quite simply ludicrous
The SNP shouldn't be allowed to run a tap without guidance, they have been showed incompetence beyond belief.
Why has no one in the SNP been sacked for this ?
Because the SNP only saved the yard from closure as insisted by the Holyrood opposition parties. The SNP don't actually build ships.
I thought normal thinking people would see the obvious.
@@chancergordy Most normal thinking people (to quote you) wouldn't arrange to buy ferries that will end up costing the tax payer 4 times the market value and be at least 5 years late, well the SDP did. The combination of the yard management and incompetent SDP have allowed this to happen, therefore back to my original question, someone needs to take responsibility for this carbuncle and be sacked...simple.
If your argument is based on saving the yard at any cost, then let's follow that principle through to saving any business that is in financial difficulty. Back to the 1970's nationalisation when the government owned loads of various businesses that were all making a loss to the taxpayer, Socialism at any cost.
@@thedangler1754 Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Let's have privatised water like England then. Capitalism at any cost. That isn't working either then, ask the boat crews in London.
@@chancergordy Calm down dear!
Because there will never be sackings without transparency and accountability - the polar opposites of SNP core values. They'd rather dedicate taxpayer resources to criminalizing basic human rights like freedom of speech. Scotland - a truly beautiful country and people - is no longer an international laughing stock; it's become a place of humanitarian outrage. Like many regular travelers with plenty of time and money to spend, I will never risk another visit.
Clearly, the Scottish shipbuilders weren't diverse enough.
SNP don’t care. Blame on Westminster and their followers believe
Windows painted on - ha ha ha ha!!!!
Did you hear about the painted engines? Zero emissions.
Maintenance tends to help too… so many companies (whether privately or publicly run) tend to want to skimp out on Maintenance costs of existing fleets of any vehicle type and when their vehicles stop running as well as they should, it’s a case of blame everyone else for a lack of investment instead!
Typical SNP MSP - starting to attack the questioner rather than answering. And of course, the SNP never take responsibility. It's always someone else's fault.
Time to get rid of the SNP. This was Yousless’s first fail. Which idiot decided they had to be dual fuel?
Ferry problem started with Sturgeon who needed the Greens and so forced into complicated dual fuel to suck up to them!
@@jimmcintosh9045 There was no infrastructure for the LNG anywhere in Scotland. If the ferries had come out on time there was nowhere in Ardrossan to store the LNG. The MOU for the construction phase was put in place during lockdown in 2020. The LNG will still have to be shipped by road tanker from Isle of Grain on the Thames. How green is that
I know! They did not sign the MOU for the construction till we were in lockdown.
Like NZ ferries between islands. Failure to invest, upgrade, and generally squeeze every ounce of short-sighted profit.
And in NZ the replacement ‘mega ferries’ (50,000 tonnes each, bigger than Bismarck!) had to be cancelled because they were too big to fit in the terminals and dry dock. The woke Labour had ordered them solely on the grounds that they had lower carbon emissions per tonne of freight.
@scipioafricanus4328 not sure it's because of them being "woke". Incompetent is a more apt adjective.
I'm glad to know its not just England where nothing works
SNP greens are duds. Couldn't run a penny farthing let alone Scotland.
How come England is also a mess then? Did the SNP cause that too?
@@chancergordy So is the Ukraine. The SNP didn't cause that either - and it's equally irrelavant. You're not very good at this debating thing, are you?
@@TomCro73 Ukraine to blame for brexit the Tories tell you
@@imck357 Substantiate or withdraw, please. And isn't it noteworthy that so many SNP supporters are barely able to string a cohesive sentence together, let alone prosecute a compelling argument. Just tick the box like they've been programmed to, then go back to their taxpayer-subsidised bed, all day, yet again.
@@chancergordy stay on topic lad, no need for deflection, we are talking about the inept useless snp cult.
SNP STILL TRYING TO DEFLECT & BLAME SOMEONE ELSE< WILL NOT ACCEPT BLAME, THEY A DISGRACE
"The windows had been painted on"... I'm confused.
your not alone.
The wooden cladding covered the spaces where the windows would go, to weatherproof the bridge, and were then painted white and then black in the shape of tinted windows to give the impression the glass had been installed.
@@alroecc thx
Sturgeon wanted to have a launch, because it would look good. But the ship wasn't really ready, so they just faked the superstructure.
@@highlandmalt6368 ty
The ferries are just a small part of the SNPs role in destroying tourism. They are even now closing Tourist Information Centres across the whole of Scotland because, to them, tourists are a pain to be tolerated, not visitors to be welcomed.
White English tourists that spend are shunned while none white foreign tourists who will stay and make you spend on them are welcome. make it make sense.
and they like to tax the tourist to the hilt.
Think outside the Box. In New Zealand, when the ferry became unreliable, a Truck Company bought their own boat. And said others could could book space too.
Somehow it will be the torries fault 😅
I've little doubt that some Scottish MP will be standing up in the British Parliament to blame this fiasco on us, here in Britain.
well Scotland is part of Britain so where is the problem?
Britain is the mainland of Scotland Wales and England, British Isles then includes Shetlands Orkneys Outer Hebrides Guernsey and Jersey. The Westminster Parliament also includes Northern Ireland. and is the United Kingdoms Parliament.
The announcement of Fergusons building the ferries was timed to coincide with the SNP conference and despite reservations by professionals as to the design and the fact that Fergusons had been given an unfair commercial advantage as to the tender process as usual the SNP knew best.
Am wait for the snp to o blame Westminster
Won't be long in coming !
Scotland wanted to be patriotic so gave orders to Scottish ship building.
They could have all ferries replaced on time, by going abroad.
If you care to check you will find that the ferry operator that runs the Orkney catamaran ferry service offered to organise building of catamarans in any Scottish ship yard.
The rumour is that the uk civil service stopped that option
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb Stop trying to shift the blame this one is down to the Scottish government.
@@kethughes8266 not really as during the tendering process the catamarans were an option.
The Civil Service helps the government of the day to develop and implement its policies.
The Civil Service should have explained that the catamaran option was the best use of taxpayers money.
They didn’t
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb The tendering process was entirely run and judged by the Scottish government (who have their own civil service).When the parliamentary enquiry that the SNP refuses to have finally happens the corruption of awarding the contract to Ferguson Marine owned by Jim McColl financial backer/supporter of the SNP and close personal friend of Alex Salmond will come out.
From half building a design that Lloyds refused to insure (rendering it useless) to Deloittes telling them the entire contract was a mess it's all down to the SNP
Ever get the feeling you have been conned.
@@kethughes8266 run under the advice of the civil servants, perhaps you are unaware that it may be called the Scottish Civil Service but it is a reserved function run by the British Parliament
Ferries build abroad, while workers in domestic shipyards or wherever are suffering and the managers, owners and shareholders still being able to raise their own income in infamous robber barony ways?
Put those terrible ways to the necessary end worldwide!
this is unacceptable . Needs to be fix immediately.
Contact your representatives ... CALL, WRITE, EMAIL ... turn up at a meeting.
What is unacceptable about this is the nonsensical nature of the report. Utter rubbish, I thought Ch4 were better than this.
@@RobertSmith-zk5hr What's wrong with the truth?
@@sunnybnk It doesn't follow the SNP brainwashing. Like anyone incapable of independent thought, he dismisses anything that differs from his programming.
The problem is the SNP!
4 times over budget and nobody is at fault , we are not talking a few thousand , we are talking Millions , but the management still get their high wages and bonuses
3.2 billion pound aircraft carrier sitting in the dock in england it died as soon as it hit the water.
Sewage pouring in to England's rivers and seas
English councils going bankrupt
English schools collapsing with raac
English hospitals collapsing with raac
The ferries debacle is one thing but what aren’t so many of our islands connected more by bridges and tunnels like in Norway or the Faroes, for example? Norway invested its oil revenue over the last 50 years in infrastructure. What’s happened to Scotland’s?
Scottish oil money finished up down in Southern England.
"1/3 of ferries are beyond their average life span" - what does that even mean? On the face of it isn't that an encouraging statistic?
I bet they keep breaking down too. Somebody needs to be investigated for this ineptitude and cost.
we do not need an investigation, we know who was behind this corrupt deal, the blame lies at the door of the inept snp.
Each ferry being built by FM has so far each cost £150 million and counting, yet for insurance purposes each is valued at £77 million. It will be a foolish client who commissions FM to build any future vessels.
What was the name of the person supposed to be sorting this out? What's he doing now?
The replacement of the replacement has just been sacked - the SNP are mismanaging the whole country but unfortunately we have them for another 2 years!
Calmac's 2023 reliability was 95%. That doesn't sound too shabby considering we're talking the west coast of Scotland.
Scottish Government should be held accountable for this disgrace
Whisky and tourism being hit ..nothing to do with England's brexit of course
Buy your own supply boat, A good ex tug boat and 2 barges would be £3 mill out of your multi £ million business profits.
Great reporting, Ch4News👏✌️
Buy your own boat.
This is outrageous !!-you should have you ferries built in Singapore !!-no "unions causing trouble"-and "on time & on budget"-every time !!
better not affect the prices of grag and glen
WHISKEY RIVER TAKE MY MINNDDDD
Hmm, a third of the fleet are older than average you say? We need to have a word about how averages work.
Very impressionistic journalism, where are the numbers? How many sailings have been cancelled, delayed or missed? That information must be available, and if not, we should be told that.
It felt more like a snippet from a travel program, distillery tour, quaint guesthouse, sun on the water, glens, Highland cow! Sure jobs were mentioned and the journalist asked when heads will roll, but tonally? This is Scotland as kaleyard
She said "Older than their average life expectancy". Christ did you even listen to it?
@@Patchesmcgee123 No -he's just trying to do the usual SNatziP deflection tactic. Never explain - always complain.
@@Patchesmcgee123 I did, sorry that I didn't type her exact words. I wonder how we calculate average life expectancy?
@@blackislepeas I'm sorry - I wasn't trying to deflect, I was asking for more accurate information - I expect better from C4. I appreciate that there is an issue with the ferries, I expect it to be better explained to a national audience.
I also don't like the lazy portrayal of the ferries as a whisky and tourism issue, there is more to the island economy than that.
What next, a joke about deep fried mars bars?
I have been told though that its unlikely that C4 read below the line, so ...
@@iainmaclean1205 maybe because Scotch and tourism makes up the majority of the countries income?
Is it not the SNP that moan a remote government does not care for them?
There is something nasty at the heart of once great nations.
Did they get their info from the Herald?
WHO, the SNP? or the Scottish Greens?
So an English media company interviewed an English Distillery owner (who, lets face it, votes Tory) about Scottish Ferries that do currently run? It says a lot about the Scottish government when this is the only thing that the unionist based media can dig up after god knows how many years of awful Conservative rule down south. They really need to find a new script. I'd like to see a side by side list of wasted funds, Scotlanad Vs Westminster. Then we can see how the Ferry 'issue' stacks up against real waste.
So 4 years late, 4x over budget and you don't consider this an issue. Have you considered running as an SNP candidate? Thickos among Scotland's population would lap you up in droves...
@@TomCro73Yes, its not good, but the alternative is a disaster. Much, MUCH worse.
@@SGrahamArt Not unlike the situation here in the US. "Everyone" thought Trump was bad... until Biden said "hold my beer". Trump can't return quickly enough - I just hope he still has time.
Channel 4 news has been lauding the snp for years ...... this is who they are chancers and amateurs.
Living on the Isle of Wight the ferries are just as bad.
I think you need to do a documentary on why these island communities, in spite of the transport issues will still support the SNP and continue to vote for them.
Same problem as elsewhere: Populist political candidates who target under educated, less intelligent voters who'll buy into their drivel like a bunch of rabid lemmings.
They have their own agenda outside the snp but need the snp to get nearer their own agenda. 2014 the snp were wanting independence badly, the Islands agreed, Then the Islands declared they would ask for independence from Scotland if they voted to leave the UK. This puts both the English and Scottish in a very awkward position. those North Sea oil and gas fields and the economic zone of fishing grounds then all belong to the Islanders, Who wouldn't vote to make themselves £Billionaires overnight?
@@marksavage1108 Interesting point - though said islands would quickly grind to a halt without the massive subsidies they receive from taxpayers elsewhere. Those billions wouldn't last long, once they started having to contract-in the necessities!
@@TomCro73 What necessities? the rigs and extraction are the oil companies problem. the owners issue the rights and take a percentage of anything extracted. Those £Billions would come with zero investment from the Islands and simply from the already existing international law, the law of the economic zone of 200 miles. This is why the snp cant push the ``independent`` bit as aggressive as they used to. If Scotland do leave the UK and join the eu, they have zero argument of the Islands asking for their independence, so then the eu doesn't get the oil gas or fish, so why would the eu take Scotland back gaining nothing but Scotlands debts.?
@@TomCro73 Subsides????, they will all be multi millionaires literally overnight. Grind to a halt? they could each buy their own personal ferries Rich enough to build linking tunnels to the mainland. It takes three months to count out £1 million, it takes 32 years to count a £Billion. They could subsidise Scotland.
When you get all those illegal immigrants working and doing all what they should be doing, and we’re not paying all the taxes that we shouldn’t be paying, but that’s some sort of dream at the moment as a culture slits down the drain. Love the islands. Regards Alan from down under
Just get the world beating logistics expert Chris Grayling in, he'll sort things out.
We could easily invest in some bridges/tunnels. It’s 3 miles between Craignish and Jura with a couple of islets in between. Jura is then half a mile to Islay. We need long term solutions like they have in the Faroe Islands and Norway. The whisky industry is huge and worth billions.
Thank European competition regulations for this direct subsidies were not allowed so cmal was formed no idea how to procure ships controlled by politicians failure after failure no accountability no body blames E U cos they are good
Not the best day to be posting about other boat related stories
I love Scotland but the SNP have me and my family feel unwelcome. Krankie has gone but the anti English reputation goes on.
A lie.
Here's a tip. Stop calling people Krankie and you might be made to feel more welcome.
@@SGrahamArt He only called the one person Krankie (and tell me hand on heart that the poison dwarf didnt deserved it), whereas the Scottish hate ``all`` the English.
@@nervousheadache A lie??? really, so just ignore the entire history of the two warring countries over centuries, yeah and the Scottish absolutely adored the English didn't they?, go give your head a good wobble.
@@marksavage1108 "Poison dwarf"? Again, want less hate? Stop spreading hate.
They need to increase executive pay, cut service, increase fares, & float some crazy "fast ferry" ideas, just like BC Ferries.
Cathy Newman exercised poor judgment and posed bad questions in her interview on January 16, 2018. Cathy ought to be held accountable and get sacked from Channel 4 News. Bad journalism should be punished. Cathy should be punished severely. Bad girl!
The British continue to nationalize industries which ought to be privatized, and privatize utilities which ought to be nationalized.... 🤦🤦🏼♂🤦🏿♀
None should be nationalised.
@@adenwellsmith6908not nuclear weapon manufacture? Not nuclear waste storage? Not bioweapon research? Not water and sewerage companies (monopolies)?
@@paulebroderick Bioweapons? Not needed
Water? Failure of regulation
Sewage? Failure of regulation
NHS? 20,000 killed a year. Monopoly. Failure of regulation.
Rubbish CalMac is one of the best ferry services in the world.
If they only had ferries.
courtesy of the SNP
Yet another political broadcast brought to you by the labour party.
How dare they criticise the cult of the SNP.
The UK is a basket case when it comes to ship building. What is left is stuck in the past and inferior to foreign yards. Like the industry, the country is out of date.
Meanwhile, our independent neighbours connect their islands via tunnels - because they control their own economies and are much richer, with much higher public infrastructure spending.
Socialist pension debts, what do you expect.
Scotland has run itself under SNP for 2 decades. Either SNP TAKES RESPONSIBILITY OR RESIGNS. It is NOT the fault of anyone except Scottish Necrosis Party. Killing Scotland Day after Day. Stick to FACTS rather than "the other mans grass is always greener BECAUSE SNP never feed the grass just blame Westminster because the SNP/Greens are FULL OF WEEDS.
Just tax the English government for the Faslane naval base. Simples.
Gosh. A project which has overrun its budget and timescale during a period of time during which we had Covid, Brexit and hyperinflation due to Brexit. The ferries however will run. Unlike HS2 which cost lest we forget 64 billion. Channel 4 undertaking a political broadcast for the Labour Party in scotland as they are unfortunately won't to do.
It is reported that the owner of the Orkney ferries offered to organising building of catamaran ferries in any Scottish yard but the British Civil Service objected to that project and altered the spec of the boats being built which increased build time etc.
It is now reported that Caledonian Mac. have hired a catamaran to cover some of their routes from the Orkney company.
Still trying to shift the blame.
Close but no cigar. Not the British Civil Service but the SNP / Greens government keep shifting the goalposts. But NO MINISTER has been held accountable.
@@kethughes8266 The Civil Service helps the government of the day to implement and develop their polices, clearly they did not recognise that the catamaran option was the best use of taxpayers cash.
@@blackislepeas The civil service helps the government of the day to develop and implement their policies. Clearly the catamaran option was the best option. The Scottish Government got well and truly landed with this one as the tender winner went bust with the ship’s unfinished.
@@JohnSmith-bx8zb This was entirely down to the Scottish government who have their own civil service .When the SNP loose control of the Scottish government the corruption of awarding this contract to Ferguson Marine owned by SNP supporter and close personal friend of Salmond Jim McColl will come out.
"Stop the Boats" it's Sunaks number one priority ! It's the people's number one priority!
Sunak's £600m+ Propaganda campaign to distract people in the UK's attention from those waiting in food bank queues and the families that are malnourished slowly starving. No one in the UK wants this Policy and it will yield nothing against the investments placed.
I mean if Scottish people vote SNP I’d blame the people 😅
English councils going bankrupt
English hospitals collapsing with raac
English schools collapsing with raac
Sewage pouring in to England's rivers and seas
Sewage pouring in to England's rivers and seas over 700 billion pound stolen/wasted by your English establishment
STOP THE BOATS ! Tory number one priority.
Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News: You ran a very bad interview on January 16, 2018 and you ought to be held to account. Apologize and resign right away! Your viewers deserve better. Your children deserve a better mother. Your husband can do so much better than you. Your parents could have had a much better daughter!
She friend-zoned you once, didn't she?
Er, leave her family out of it numpty
Jordan Peterson deserved a worthier debating opponent.
@@Evemeister12 She ran a bad interview on Jan 16, 2018 and ought to be held to account for her behavior. Shame on Cathy Newman.
What has happened to Channel 4? Has it been taken over by Murdoch as well?
Why 😂
Anthony needs to go home
If chan 4 said today was Wednesday i wouldn't trust them .
I bet you still believe Sturgeon resigned to see more of her family.
@@kethughes8266
Youre missing my point here lefty .
I never trust the msm
I hate the snp and jimmy mc sturgeon ya clown
Msm tell lies non stop
Ferries are like hens teeth u mean