On 1 May 2022, the Herald’s Ferry Correspondent, Martin Williams, announced: MINISTERS have been accused of a “scandalous” waste of over £110m  by failing to use catamarans instead of two new alternative lifeline vessels which are now being built in Turkey. This was the catamaran project: Ministers have come under fire as an £800m scheme to create a Clyde shipbuilding revolution and solve Scotland’s ferry crisis with a fleet of 50 catamarans has been sunk. Fronted by Stuart Ballantyne, a Scottish naval architect and chairman of Australian marine consulting firm Sea Transport Solutions whose designs are used in around 50 countries, the … Continue reading Is this why the Scottish Government wisely rejected catamaran project as two 20 year-old $460 million Canadian catamaran ferries go on Facebook Marketplace for only $15 million?!!