Ferry services disruption likely for 8th March
With adverse weather forecasts, many of CalMac’s services – in the Firth of Clyde waterway and on the west coast inshore and Atlantic routes – are tonight [7th March] on AMBER alert for tomorrow,...
View ArticleDavid MacBrayne CEO honoured by Institute of DIrectors Scotland
Martin Dorchester, CEO of David MacBrayne Limited, has been named Public Sector Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors Scotland.The awards, which attract nominees from an array of...
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Three Argyll islands in upcoming BBC ALBA series with Islay’s Heather Dewar
Eileanan Fraoich, a new eight part television series from the always fresh Gaelic television channel, BBC ALBA, starts airing on Tuesday 8th April from 8.30 – 9.00pm.Islay-born Heather Dewar has...
View Article50th anniversary of first west coast car ferry – from LOLOs to ROROs and DODOs
Fifty years ago today, 15th April 2014, one of the most important events in the history of ferry services to the west coast of Scotland took place.On 15th April in 1964, David MacBrayne Ltd introduced...
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THIRTEEN NEW JOBS – the measure of Stramash’s seven league boots
Striding between its home base at Oban in Argyll and its exiting new northern campus in Fort William, Stramash, the forward thinking outdoor adventure and education specialists, have now created 13 new...
View ArticleSpeculation on CalMac’s offshore bidding was ‘on the money’
Earlier in April, driven by curiosity at a throw-away remark by Douglas Fraser at the end of a recent BBC Business Scotland programme, that CalMac CEO, Martin Dorchester had told him at the end of an...
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Call for volunteers as HWDT launches vital new research expeditions on...
The United Kingdom’s only known resident population of killer whales is at risk of imminent extinction. Tobermory-based Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust [HWDT] has this week launched a new series of...
View ArticleArgyll’s depopulation and ageing population raised at Holyrood Question Time...
Figures released recently by the General Register of Scotland highlighted a situation where, in the 25 years from 2012 – 2037, the total population of Scotland is pr0jected to rise from 5.31 million to...
View ArticleAnother score for MICT and Ulva Ferry – new minibus for local community...
Mull is setting a lead for the rest of Argyll and the Isles in community self-determination in so many wayswith the strength and variety of the work done by Mull and Iona Community Trust [MICT]; and...
View ArticleDeputy First Minister to meet Dunoon Ferry Action Group this month
[13.00 Update below with information from Transport Scotland] At last night’s, 10th June, BIDS meeting in Dunoon, Council Leader Dick Walsh announced that the Deputy First Minister is holding a meeting...
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Major international award for CMAL’s MV Hallaig
On Thursday night, 26th June, Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd [CMAL] won a prestigious international award at the first Electric & Hybrid Marine Awards in Amsterdam.The award for Electric and Hybrid...
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The view from Lochinvar: party of the century from the Commonwealth Flotilla
Yesterday, 26th July 2014, was about a great river – the Clyde; about boating and commercial maritime business; and about people – so many people. CalMac’s newest ferry, MV Lochinvar, led the...
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Machrihanish Airbase’s mysterious Gaydon Hangar moves from US Navy Seals to...
A development at the former RAF airbase outside Campbeltown by the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company [MACC] that bought the site from the Ministry of Defence, will see the Gaydon Hangar there...
View ArticleExpect ferry disruptions today
[Updated below] With largely NW winds forecast to run from Strong Breeze to Fresh Gale 8 and Strong Gale 9, CalMac are warning of possible disruption to Argyll’s ferry services today, 17th August, in...
View ArticleCalMac awards state-of-the-art ticketing and online booking contract to...
Caledonian MacBrayne [CalMac] has awarded the contract for a cutting edge ticketing and online booking system to Worldline, the European leader and a global player in the payments and transactional...
View ArticleIsland ferry services worst hit by gales
The gales following the landfall of the former Hurricane Gonzalo have caused disruption to Argyll’s ferry services, except for Western Ferries which is sailing without notification of any likely...
View ArticleWeather threat to Hebridean ferry services and roads for 6th November
With SSE winds forecast for tomorrow at Force 5 gusting to Gale 8, west coast ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne [CalMac] has put a number of its services to the islands on Amber alert for tomorrow,...
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Perfect fit in new partnership marketing initiative for Cowal’s Creggans Inn
An imaginative marketing partnership has been brokered between Cowal’s famous Creggans Inn at Strachur on east Loch Fyne, the nationwide experts, The Whisky Shop and Marketing Argyll, the North...
View ArticleNicky Archibald joins CKD Galbraith
Oban property sales consultant, Nicky Archibald – a member of the BID 4 Oban Board and of Luing Community Council, is joining Scotland’s leading property consultancy, CKD Galbraith, to cover Argyll and...
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Majestic Line welcomes skipper launching his own Argyll Cruising
This is how good business works – a company welcoming competition [and from a former employee], knowing that the more good quality businesses there are in any sector, the more the public become aware...
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