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New Ferry Enters Service but CalMac Warns Ship Shortage Still Critical

Scottish Labour plans to merge ferry operator CalMac and procurement body CMAL to reduce bureaucracy amid a tenfold rise in technical cancellations, impacting island communities.

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MV Isle of Islay is the first of four large new ferries ordered from a shipyard in Turkey.

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Labour vows to merge ferry bodies and fix ‘broken system’

Anas Sarwar will visit Stornoway on Monday, as he warned the ‘SNP’s ferry fiasco is a symbol of their incompetence and waste’.

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Evening Standard broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Sunday, March 29, 2026.
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