£22m public cost expected as CalMac emergency ferry 'kept for another five months'

£22m public cost expected as CalMac emergency ferry 'kept for another five months'

An 'emergency' CalMac catamaran ferry is being chartered for a further five months - as questions have arisen about whether a regular ferry for…

Greene comments as cost of replacement ferry charter hits £22m

Responding to reports that Pentland Ferries has signed an agreement with publicly funded CalMac to extend the charter of MV Alfred for a further five months, taking the costs of chartering the catamaran to £22m, West of Scotland MSP and transport spokesperson Jamie Greene said: “My constituents have come to expect that anything involving ferries will take twice as long as promised and cost twice as much. "A similar vessel could have been purchas…