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New British ferries being built in Turkey

Posted by Norman on 25/10/2025, 10:38 am

FOUR new Ferries for service in Scotland are being built NOT in the UK, but in Turkey.
Is this because we've wiped out all of our Shipbuilding Industry?
Didnt we say years ago that this would happen if an Island nation like us closed the Shipyards.

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Re: New British ferries being built in Turkey

Posted by Sheila on 25/10/2025, 10:49 am, in reply to "New British ferries being built in Turkey"

It’s very sad ,but it’s the SNP that are the Government in Scotland. The Political Party who want Scotland as a separate nation. I think they are still looking for the £600,000 that is missing from the last lot of SNP politicians. At the moment , they are still being well subsidised by the rest of the UK.

Re: New British ferries being built in Turkey

Posted by Malcolm on 25/10/2025, 11:39 am, in reply to "New British ferries being built in Turkey"

Couldn't agree with you more, Norman.

It goes beyond stupid.....

The 2 ferries built on the Clyde: Should have cost £97 million.... now FOUR times that, and YEARS late.

One came into service in January, and been in for repair THREE times, we're still waiting for the second one!

It gets even better; the route the were to serve: Ardrossan (west coast, near me) to Broddick on the Isle of Arran..... it's TOO BIG to fit the dock at Ardrossan...... so has to travel down the coast to Troon, so further to travel, more time, so fewer sailings...... great !!

And.....there's more! These ferries are supposed to be green, dual fuel (i.e diesel AND gas)

But the gas is trucked from somewhere in Europe, arrives at the Isle of Dogs (near London) then trucked to the dock at Troon, where there is NO storage facilty (someone forgot to build storage tanks!!) so they have to replenish the gas direct from the tanker to the ferry, which takes over 2 HOURS...... but the ferries only dock, typically, for less than an hour....

Whichever idiot ever thought that this was either green, or clever, wants sacking....

And we're still desperately waiting for the new Turkish ferries, which are all on schedule, and within cost, to arrive, as the massively aging fleet we currently have are continually braking down.....

Re: New British ferries being built in Turkey

Posted by Liz Dance on 25/10/2025, 11:54 am, in reply to "Re: New British ferries being built in Turkey"

Just typical of Government waste of Tax Payers money, I just wonder how it would work if it was their money?

TWO more examples of UK Stupidity

Posted by Norman on 25/10/2025, 12:17 pm, in reply to "Re: New British ferries being built in Turkey"

Two more great examples of our stupidity was when Hitachi the Japanese Company came to Aycliffe to build trains & create work for us. Then we bought our Metro Trains from SPAIN.

Another example is we gave the Passport Contract to France who then sub contracted it to Poland. That meant the Delarue Factory in Gateshead lost that work which put British people out of work .

Re: TWO more examples of UK Stupidity

Posted by Ray Forster on 25/10/2025, 1:30 pm, in reply to "TWO more examples of UK Stupidity"

Norman, the new Metro trains are built by Stadler who are Swiss.

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