Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An asset-owning company, Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) A new operating company, CalMac Ferries Ltd (CFL). This was done by Caledonian MacBrayne Ltd transferring its operations—but not its assets—to CFL. The operation of the lifeline ferry service was then put out to open competitive tender.
Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited is a shipbuilding company whose yard, located in Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, was established in 1903. It is the last remaining shipbuilder on the lower Clyde and is currently the only builder of merchant ships on the river.
The Company was established by Joseph Russell and his partners Anderson Rodger and William Lithgow who leased the Bay Yard in Port Glasgow from Cunliffe & Dunlop and started trading as Russell & Co. in 1874 [1] (Cunliffe & Dunlop became David J. Dunlop and Co in 1881 and Dunlop, Bremner and Co in 1911).
The company was formed in 1967 by the merger of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows. [1] Scott Lithgow was based in Port Glasgow and Greenock on the lower Clyde in Scotland . Scott Lithgow was nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. [ 1 ]
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Glasgow's Subway is one of the four underground urban rail networks in the UK (the others being in London, Newcastle and Liverpool). Edinburgh has a tramway to and from the airport. On 1 January 2006, Transport Scotland was established, which would oversee the regulation of railways in Scotland and administer major rail projects. [ 10 ]
The company is the largest operator of Yutong E10 and E12 battery electric buses in the United Kingdom as of 2023, operating a total 96 of the type in and around Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde. McGill's first took delivery of 55 E12s in November 2021, [ 42 ] which were later joined by 31 E12s and ten E10s in March 2023.
Port Glasgow (Scottish Gaelic: Port Ghlaschu, pronounced [pʰɔrˠʃt̪ˈɣl̪ˠas̪əxu]) is the second-largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland. The population according to the 1991 census for Port Glasgow was 19,426 persons and in the 2001 census was 16,617 persons.