Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has just announced (19th March 2010) that Silvers Marine, based on the Rosneath peninsula at the Gareloch, has been awarded the contract to run a small passenger boat to replace the former Yoker to Renfrew passenger ferry across the Clyde.
The boat which will run the service is a covered RIB, carrying 12 people and replacing the tow elderly 50-passenger ferries – the Yoker Swan and the Renfrew Rose.
There will be a two-day parallel service while the new one beds in. It will start on 29th March and the old ferries will bow out on 31st March.
The contract was approved at an SPT meeting this morning. It will carry no public subsidy. Fares on the route are expected to be £1.50 single and £3 return.
Silvers Marine was, with Inverness-based Clyde River Taxis, joint favourite out of five contenders to win the contract.
Good to see an Argyll business extending its reach into the Clyde.
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