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In February and March 2024, Catriona operated an enhanced timetable between Lochranza and Claonaig rather than the timetabled daily return from Tarbert to Lochranza. This was due to capacity issues on the Ardrossan to Brodick service owing to the removal from service of MV Caledonian Isles and her replacement with the smaller MV Isle of Arran .
The first of two new dual-fuel ferries built by Ferguson Marine Engineering, MV Glen Sannox, was handed over to CalMac on 21 November 2024. She entered service on the Troon-Brodick route on 12 January 2025. [5] The second dual-fuel ferry, MV Glen Rosa, was launched on 12 March 2024 and is expected to delivered by 31 May 2025. [6]
Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) retained ownership of CalMac vessels and infrastructure, including harbours, while CalMac Ferries Ltd submitted tenders to be the ferry operator. The company of David MacBrayne Ltd, which had been legally dormant for many years, was re-activated as a company wholly-owned by the Scottish Government on 4 ...
From March 2016 until July 2022, Coruisk was the second ferry on the Oban–Craignure route on the summer timetable, alongside MV Isle of Mull. [7] She was replaced at Mallaig for the 2016 season by the smaller MV Lochinvar , MV Loch Bhrusda and MV Lord of the Isles (in between the latter's Lochboisdale – Mallaig sailings).
MV Argyll Flyer approaching Gourock pier in 2011, in Argyll Ferries livery.. She was constructed by OCEA, Les Sables-d'Olonne, France in 2001 for Inishmore Ferries, and under the name "Queen of Aran II" in 2004 she was sold to Aran Island Ferries following the closure of Inismore Ferries and in 2007 renamed Banríon Chonamara (Queen of Connemara) provided a service to the Aran Islands in Ireland.
In January and February 2022, Loch Tarbert operated a temporary timetable of two to three return sailings per day from Tarbert to Lochranza, Arran. This was in response to a temporary COVID-19-related timetable on the Ardrossan - Brodick route operated by MV Hebridean Isles , to alleviate capacity issues from the absence of MV Caledonian Isles .
On 27 December 2024, CalMac confirmed that Caledonian Isles would be out of service until 27 March 2025. Additionally, CalMac announced that due to the redeployment of MV Isle of Arran , there would be no ferries running to Ardrossan from 13 January to 27 March 2025 inclusive, with MV Glen Sannox and MV Alfred to serve Brodick from Troon .
MV Isle of Lewis is a ro-ro ferry operated by Caledonian MacBrayne between Oban and Castlebay, Barra.Built in 1995, she remains one of only three ships in the CalMac fleet over 100 metres (328 ft) in length; the others, Loch Seaforth, being longer by almost 15 metres and Glen Sannox being just over 1 metre longer.