According to the enclosed article on the BBC Scotland news website between 400 and 939 electrical cables are going to have to removed from the two new Calmac ferries currently being built at the Scottish Government owned Ferguson’s Marine shipyard. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-west-60338132
The electrical cables have been sitting coiled up on the MV Glen Sannox and when they were unwound it was discovered that they are too short.
Nobody is admitting how this happened but in my opinion either the cables were ordered quoting imperial measurements or the points for the plugs on the Glen Sannox have been installed in the wrong place.
This latest fiasco to hit the Glen Sannox and Hull 802 came to light at First Minister’s Question time today at Holyrood.
Nicola Sturgeon tried to wriggle out of this fiasco by stating that the electrical cable were installed on the Glen Sannox before August 2019 when it went into administration and was nationalised by the Derek McKay who the SG Cabinet Secretary for Finance.
It will be interesting to hear what the former First Minster Alex Salmond has to say about this latest fiasco involving the Glen Sannox and Hull 802 who are both four years late going into service as Alex Salmond persuaded his friend Jim McColl to buy Ferguson’s out of administration in July 2014.
Scottish Government owned CMAL who own all the Calmac ferries and some piers should have been paying attention and checking that everything was being installed according to the plans for the Glen Sannox and not waiting until it is too late.
I have no faith in the Chief Executive of CMAL but that is another story.