John Petticrew will continue to run the Port Glasgow yard while it works to complete a second CalMac ship Glen Rosa.
The interim boss of the Ferguson Marine shipyard has agreed to stay on until Easter as the firm struggles to recruit a replacement chief executive.The current chief executive, John Petticrew, said he would now extend his contract, and would gladly take on the role permanently were it not for his family commitments in Canada.
Mr Petticrew told Holyrood’s net zero energy and transport committee he believed a failure to properly design the ships before starting construction was at the heart of what went wrong. It was also difficult to get regulatory approval as UK authorities were unfamiliar with dual fuel LNG ships, he added.But he added that the LNG system on Glen Sannox was now "working fabulously" and that he wanted to see it installed on the second CalMac ferry, Glen Rosa.especially for short island crossings of the type the two ferries will be making.
But board chairman Andrew Miller said the directors had lost confidence in his ability to predict when Glen Sannox would be delivered, or give accurate information about new problems. BBC Scotland understand that a senior manager with Harland & Wolff, based in Scotland, had initially accepted the role, but then changed his mind.Glen Rosa, pictured at the Ferguson shipyard, is still on track to be delivered next SeptemberHe said that while the yard had no new orders, he was confident it would soon secure some sub-contracting work from a larger yard.
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