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NorthLink Ferries (also referred to as Serco NorthLink Ferries [1]) is an operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, as well as ferry services, between mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland. Since July 2012, it has been operated by international services company Serco.
The first of two new dual-fuel ferries built by Ferguson Marine Engineering, MV Glen Sannox, was handed over to CalMac on 21 November 2024. She entered service on the Troon-Brodick route on 12 January 2025. [5] The second dual-fuel ferry, MV Glen Rosa, was launched on 12 March 2024 and is expected to delivered by 31 May 2025. [6]
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A joint venture between Caledonian MacBrayne and the Royal Bank of Scotland named NorthLink Orkney and Shetland Ferries won the tender for the subsidised Northern Isles services, previously run by P&O Scottish Ferries, commencing in 2002. The ambitious programme ran into financial difficulties, and the service was again put out to tender.
Cuttyhunk Ferry Co. ferries people, mail, groceries and other goods to the mile-and-a-half by three-quarter-mile Cuttyhunk Island. Cuttyhunk is part of the town of Gosnold, which is made up of the ...
In 1953 the North Company was reformed. Over the next 20 years it introduced roll-on/roll-off services to the North Isles to satisfy demand for faster, shorter ferry routes, rather than the old mail boats. [1] In 1961 the company was taken over by Coast Lines and in 1975 P&O and in 1975, renamed as P&O Ferries (Orkney & Shetland Services).
Between 2003 and 2011, she was joined by Isle of Arran in the summer, providing a series of additional sailings throughout the week and maintaining the service on Wednesdays during the Oban extension. [6] For six months from October 2002, she was chartered to NorthLink Ferries and inaugurated their Stromness to Scrabster service. She continued ...
On 18 March 2016, Arrow was called in to cover freight services to the Channel Islands for Condor Ferries as the regular vessel, MV Commodore Clipper, was covering routes while Condor Liberation underwent repairs. [9] On 25 June 2020, while under subcharter to NorthLink Ferries, Arrow ran aground at the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour. She was ...