{"id":1280,"date":"2015-06-09T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T09:32:36","slug":"delay-in-awarding-calmac-ferry-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Delay in awarding CalMac ferry contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Press Release, 28<sup>th<\/sup> May, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Delay in awarding CalMac ferry contract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has raised concerns about the delay in awarding the new CalMac Vessel for the Ardrossan to Brodick Route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ferguson\u2019s Shipyard is one of a number of company\u2019s bidding for the contract. The decision was originally due at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Duncan McNeil <strong>said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI will seek an early meeting with the management of CMAL and Ferguson\u2019s Shipyard in an attempt to get further details as to the reason behind the delay and any consequences this may have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI will also be asking questions of the Scottish Government as to the investment in Ferguson\u2019s and the continuity of work at the yard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am determined that the promises made by the former First Minister Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon regarding the future of the yard are delivered.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release, 28th May, 2015 Delay in awarding CalMac ferry contract Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has raised concerns about the delay in awarding the new CalMac Vessel for the Ardrossan to Brodick Route. Ferguson\u2019s Shipyard is one of a number of company\u2019s bidding for the contract. The decision was originally due at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}