Julia 
The delivery date for MV Glen Rosa, the second of two dual-fuel CalMac ferries being built by the nationalised Ferguson shipyard, has been put back by up to nine months.
The cost of the ship has also risen – by up to £35m – meaning the two ships will cost upwards of £460m if written-off loans are included, more than four-and-a-half times the original contract price.
Ferguson Marine said it now expected Glen Rosa to be "substantially complete" in the first quarter of 2026 and delivered between April and June.
The ship, which is to serve CalMac's Arran route, was originally due for delivery in July 2018.
MV Glen Rosa was launched from the Ferguson slipway in Port Glasgow a year ago in a far more finished state than its identical sister ship MV Glen Sannox seven years earlier.
While there was much "fitting out" work still to be done, including specialist cryogenic pipework for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) engines, it was hoped it could be delivered by the end of September this year.
