transport: MV Glen Sannox (2017)

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MV Glen Sannox is a car and passenger ferry constructed at Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow for the Scottish Government asset company CMAL, to lease to its ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne. Entering service informally to the Isle of Arran on 12 January 2025, formally on 13 January 2025, she is the first of two dual-fuel CalMac ferries, capable of operating on either marine gas oil, or LNG which offers a marked reduction in sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions, the other being the MV Glen Rosa. The ship's name recalls an earlier Arran ferry. The ship's sea trials began in February 2024, and she was moved to Inchgreen Quay in Greenock, freeing the Newark Quay at the s…

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MV Isle of Arran (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Arainn) is a RO-RO ferry operated on the west coast of Scotland by Caledonian MacBrayne. Also known by her local nicknames IOA and The Auld Trooper, she entered service in 1984 on the Ardrossan to Brodick route, serving Arran for nine years before being moved to Kennacraig. She returned to her original route in 2012, supplementing MV Caledonian Isles in summer and becoming a relief vessel for Arran in winter as well as other routes where required. In 2013, she started a new pilot route from Ardrossan to Campbeltown, which became a permanent fixture in 2015. As of 2023, she is one of the oldest vessels in the fleet, having been in service for 40 year…

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MV Caledonian Isles, usually referred to locally as Caley Isles, is one of the largest ships operated by Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac), which runs ferries to the Hebridean and Clyde Islands of Scotland. Caledonian Isles serves the Isle of Arran on the Ardrossan to Brodick route. As its CalMac's busiest route, Caledonian Isles has the largest passenger capacity in the fleet, and can carry up to 1000 passengers and 110 cars (reduced to about 90 wider modern cars), with a crossing time of 55 minutes. She is used extensively by day-trippers to the Isle of Arran during the summer.

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MV Hebrides (Scottish Gaelic: Innse Gall) is an inter-island ferry operating in Scotland, owned by Caledonian Maritime Assets and operated by its subsidiary Caledonian MacBrayne. She entered service in the Hebrides in 2001, operating on the "Uig Triangle" from Uig on the Isle of Skye to Lochmaddy and Tarbert, the main settlements of North Uist and Harris respectively. She has spent most of her career operating on the Uig Triangle, with occasional stints relieving other vessels on different routes. She is the third vessel to bear the name of the islands she serves.

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MV Glen Rosa (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Ruasaidh) is a car and passenger ferry, the second of two major vessels constructed at Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow for the Scottish Government asset company Caledonian Maritime Assets to lease to its ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne. Originally planned for Uig based services, she will serve Arran. Like her sister ship, Glen Sannox, she is to be a dual-fuel ferry, capable of operating on either marine gas oil, or LNG which offers a marked reduction in sulphur, nitrous oxide and carbon emissions. The ship's name was chosen from a shortlist by public ballot on 30 August 2023. The sister ship, Glen Sannox, had been substantially incomplete when launc…