The annual cost of repairing CalMac’s fleet of ferries has tripled in a decade, reaching more than £28m last year.
A Freedom of Information request by the Scottish Conservatives showed the extent of rising maintenance costs as the fleet grows older.
In 2011, total repair costs stood at £9.5m, but this rose to £28.6m in 2021. Total spending on repairs has gone beyond £200m since 2007.
