Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) can now confirm that ground investigation works are set to get underway at Port Ellen. During the coming weeks, locals and visitors will initially see a Uniflote barge at the port then further marine boreholes will be undertaken from a jack-up barge, generally located to the north of the existing pier.

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HRH The Princess Royal is set to re-open the historic pier in the popular Ayrshire seaside town of Largs later this summer. Princess Anne will perform the opening ceremony on Thursday 10th September following CMAL’s £6M project to safeguard the future of the pier, which was originally built in 1834.

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The team behind the Small Ferries Project has taken to the sea with community visits to Rathlin Island and Arainn Mhor. These trips are the first as the 18 month project aims to develop a strategic plan for a new fleet of small vessels to serve remote and island communities off the Scottish and Irish coastlines.

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The MV Raasay has become the latest CMAL ship to receive its Green Passport. The ship is the first of the 30 ships serving the Clyde and Hebrides ferry services in the west of Scotland to be put through the auditing process as part of a five year programme.

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The £6M project to rebuild the historic pier in the popular Ayrshire seaside town is now due for completion by mid August 2009. The reconstruction works are just three weeks behind schedule, primarily due to problems encountered when the contractor, George Leslie Ltd, uncovered Victorian wooden sheet piles in the old pier structure.

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