The Scottish Conservative Party is set to call for an increase to long-term financing for Scotland's ferry fleet, which its transport spokesman Graham Simpson said is “ageing and ever more unreliable”.
A report from Audit Scotland is expected this week on the Ferguson Marine shipyard, which was taken into public ownership in 2019 and subsequently shown to have problems that led to the delay and increased cost of two ferries.
The Glen Sannox and the as-yet-unnamed 802 were due to be delivered in 2018, but have since been pushed back to April and July 2023 and projected to cost twice as much as initially thought.
