{"id":1393,"date":"2015-09-20T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T15:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2015-09-20T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:00:28","slug":"ferry-contract-great-news-for-inverclyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Ferry Contract \u2018great news\u2019 for Inverclyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Press Release,\u00a01st September\u00a02015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ferry Contract \u2018great news\u2019 for Inverclyde<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commenting on the news that Ferguson\u2019s shipyard has won a \u00a397 million pounds ferry contract Greenock and Inverclyde <strong>Duncan McNeil said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is great news for the Inverclyde economy, the local community and the workers at Ferguson\u2019s shipyard. It provides further confirmation that we have the infrastructure and workforce to secure major manufacturing projects. When I met with CMAL earlier in the summer I was informed that Ferguson\u2019s were working flat out to secure the contract. They deserve huge credit for all the work they\u2019ve put in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI hope we can keep the momentum going and build on this latest success. In July, Jim McColl announced that he had scouted Inchgreen drydock as a potential shipyard. I\u2019m working alongside local MP Ronnie Cowan and the leader of Inverclyde Council Steven McCabe, to see what can be done to make this significant opportunity become a reality. We are currently seeking further meetings with Jim McColl and Peel Ports in order to move things forward\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release,\u00a01st September\u00a02015 Ferry Contract \u2018great news\u2019 for Inverclyde Commenting on the news that Ferguson\u2019s shipyard has won a \u00a397 million pounds ferry contract Greenock and Inverclyde Duncan McNeil said: \u201cThis is great news for the Inverclyde economy, the local community and the workers at Ferguson\u2019s shipyard. It provides further confirmation that we have 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-1393","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\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}