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12th January update: Weather disruption to roads & Argyll ferries
Roads: All Argyll roads are open. The approaches to the Erskine Bridge are still experiencing high winds.Ferries: Ferry services are almost back to normal at the moment. Current disruptions...
View ArticleWestern Ferries posts healthy profit but is still arguing the toss with the...
Independent Clyde ferry operator, Western Ferries – running the route form Hunter’s Quay just north of Dunoon in Argyll to McInroy’s Point just south of Gourock, has posted a pre-tax profit of...
View ArticleA83 closed: landslide at Rest & Be Thankful
Update 16.00 10th September: The A83 has now reopened with the stretch affected by the 1070 tonne landslip at midday on Tuesday functioning on single lane only operation under traffic light control –...
View ArticleArgyll Ferries Gourock-Dunoon service suspended
[02.45 update 25th September - Situation review at 06.00] Yesterday – 24th September, with NE winds gusting to to over 40 knots, Argyll Ferries suspended its Gourock-Dunoon passenger service from...
View ArticleReminder: Argyll Ferries on ‘refit’ service schedule
As we have been informing for some time now in our Today’s Travel Updates section, Argyll Ferries moves into a reduced service schedule tomorrow, 13th May, during the annual refit for the Argyll Flyer,...
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New Western Ferries boat takes to the water at Cammel Laird
The Ferry at the end of the slip waiting for high water is the first of the two new Western Ferries boats, Sound of Soay.At high water this morning, 22 July 2013, she was floated off and then towed by...
View ArticleWestern Ferries announces increased sailings to support 2013 Cowal Games
Gordon Ross, Managing Director of Western Ferries, has just announced that Western Ferries will, as in previous years, be providing an enhanced timetable to satisfy the increased demand from locals and...
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Western Ferries family welcomes the new kids
At first it was all about waiting. Then it was about learning. We’d expected today to be about the two new boats – and it was – but it was really about family, the extended family that is Western...
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Argyll at the 2013 Scottish Boat Show: presence, impact and the future
There was something appropriate about getting to the 2013 Scottish Boat Show at Inverkip literally on the back of the newest ferry in service on the Clyde, from an Argyll business.Western Ferries’...
View ArticleTransport Scotland running pre-tender Information Day for Gourock-Dunoon...
This Friday, 18th October, at Transport Scotland’s Victoria Quay offices in Edinburgh, the Scottish Government is hosting an Information Day for potential operators of a vehicle and passenger ferry...
View ArticleTransport Minister signals answer to Dunoon-Gourock passenger service
Transport Minister, Keith Brown, appeared today to signal the solution to a reliable passenger service between Dunoon and Gourock.The Minister was in Galloway, performing the official launch of the...
View ArticleCoruisk fails the weather test along with the ‘bathtub boats’
Argyll Ferries passenger ferry service between Gourock and Dunoon is currently suspended, with a Review at 5pm – when the winds are supposed to be even stronger.This sees MV Coruisk, which was added as...
View ArticleWestern Ferries increases sponsorship and ferry services to support Cowal Games
Western Ferries’ Managing Director, Gordon Ross, says of the 2014 Cowal Highland Gathering: ‘This year’s event signals the beginning of a new era for Cowal Games. The Committee has been working...
View ArticleCould Dunoon benefit from 4 month works at Wemyss Bay harbour?
CalMac announced last week that urgent repairs and upgrading to be carried out by CMAL at Wemyss Bay harbour from February 2015 for abut four months would mean the temporary reassignment to Gourock of...
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Lairds get contract for new Strangford ferry, following success with...
With Fergusons’ yard on the Clyde busy with the first hybrid diesel-electric ferry for CMAL, the Western Ferries’ contract for its two new ferries for its 20 minute cross-Clyde route from Hunters Quay...
View ArticleA83 closed with coach off on shores of Loch Restil
The A83 is closed at Rest and Be Thankful following a serious road accident – a coach travelling west coming off the road towards the northern end of Loch Restil, approximately 200 meters north of the...
View ArticleAnalysis of Gourock-Dunoon ferry services confirms imperative for change
MVA Consultants were hired in 2012 by the Scottish Government to report on the feasibility of a second vehicle and passenger ferry service between Dunoon and Gourock – running the 50% longer and more...
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