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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CMAL has secured a first for Scotland and the UK with the introduction of Green Passports to our ferry fleet. The Canna has become the first existing ferry in the UK to be awarded its own Green Passport with two more sister ships due to receive their green passports by July.

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CMAL has published their findings from the Lismore STAG study, which they presented to residents of Port Appin and Lismore at the beginning of April. The STAG was undertaken by CMAL on behalf of the Scottish Government in partnership with Calmac Ferries Ltd and Argyll and Bute Council. The findings will now feed into the Scottish Government Ferry Review, due to be published later this year.

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An EU grant of more than £230,000 has been awarded to a special cross border partnership to establish how best to design and build a fleet of small ferries to serve remote communities off the Scottish and Irish coastlines.

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