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The Scottish Ferries Review
Consultation Document 2010
Arran - 12 July 2010
Graham Laidlaw
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Introduction
• Consultation Document, not a Plan• Runs to 30 September 2010• Questionnaires to complete and return• 33 key questions• [email protected]• 0131 244 1539• Documents available on our website
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Commitment to Ferries
• Essential part of our transport network• Essential for access to vital services• Enable movement of freight• Encourage sustainable and growing
communities• Must provide a safe, sustainable system• Quality employment
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Summary of the Review:
• Inform a long term Ferries Strategy – to 2022• Influence next round of tendering for services• Investment programme for vessels and ports
and harbours• All publicly funded ferries included – Scottish
Government and local authority funded• No potential routes excluded• Needs of passengers, cars, commercial vehicles
and freight all to be considered
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Lack of consistency
• Funding services• Funding vessels• Funding harbour infrastructure• Responsibility for delivery• What routes and what level of service• Tendered services• Provision of vessels
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What we’ve done so far
• Been helped in forming opinions by project groups
• Consultants and CMAL carried out specific pieces of work to inform us
• Public consultation events last year
• Extensive data collection
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Challenges
• Less money available to invest in and support ferries
• Ageing fleet and need for investment
• Ageing harbour infrastructure and need for investment
• Escalating fuel and crew costs
• Subsidy levels increasing
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Funding and Procurement• To 2022 need £604m for vessels• To 2022 need £180m for ports and
harbours replacement• To 2022 need £7.5m p.a. annually for
ports and harbours maintenance• The services also need to be funded -
2007/8 cost for all c. £103m, 2008/9 for DML c.£90m
• We are asking you to consider options
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Funding Options
• The status quo
• CMAL to access funds through alternative structural or financing routes
• Ports and harbours could be self-funding
• Users of the service to pay more
• Open the market up to greater competition
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Fares Options• Increase all fares• Increase visitor fares• Reduce fares for island/peninsula
residents• Reduce fares for commercial vehicles• RET or other distance based• To manage demand• Mixed approach
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Fares Questions• Asking you to consider what the rationale
for/purpose of the fares policy should be.
• Should fares differentiate between islanders/residents of peninsular communities and other ferry users?
• One fares policy across Scotland or different policies dependant on needs of communities?
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What services should be funded?
• We have developed a methodology – based on Summer timetables - for determining what routes and services are needed
• We will now do the same for Winter timetable
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Other Issues?
• Accessibility
• Environment
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Current Issues for Arran
• Reliability issues at Ardrossan harbour – during bad weather
• Last sailing to Arran too early in the evening
• Summer capacity and second vessel
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Arran –Household survey results
• Overall people in Arran who use the ferry most are either quite or highly satisfied with their current services – 74% (Average all network – 73% satisfaction)
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Routes and Services Methodology
1. Define current and future needs relevant to other communities
2. Define the ferry service required to meet those needs
3. Define current service and current issues4. Define gaps between steps 2 and 35. Consider options to address gaps6. Prioritise future spending
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Step 1 - Define current needs
• Commuting
• Personal
• Supply chain
• Export/import
• Tourism
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Results of step 1 – Arran
• Supply Chain and Export/Import are equally important
• Followed by Personal and Tourism then Commuting
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Defining a service to meet these needs
• Chosen four attributes that largely define a ferry service:1.Crossing time;2.number of sailings per day;3. length of operating day; and, 4. the number of days per week the service runs
• Taken dependencies identified in step 1 andmatched them against these four attributes
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Results of steps 2 and 3 – Arran
Attribute Proposed Actual
• Crossingtime medium short
(75-180 mins) (less than 75-mins)
• Sailingper day medium medium
(3-6) (3-6)
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Results of steps 2 and 3
Attribute Proposed Actual
• Oper/day high high(full oper/day) (full oper day)
• Day/wk high high(full week) (full week)
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Results of Step 4 – initial analysis for Arran
• A longer crossing time• And no change to:
sailings per day;operating day;days per week.
• However sense checking and Steps 5 and 6 yet to be applied
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Steps 5 and 6• Identify options to address proposed
changes at Step 4
• STAG based appraisal
• Objectives to take account of current issues
• Prioritise future spend across the Scottish ferries network
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What’s the way forward?• Majority of services will continue to receive
public funding• Responsibility for delivery will continue to be split
between SG and LAs• Must explore ways of bringing additional money
into the system for delivery of ferry services• Need an open and transparent way to determine
what routes and services and level of service should be funded
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What happens next?
• Public consultation to 30 September 2010• 43 events within this period• Draft Ferries Plan with more detailed Strategic
Environmental Assessment and an Equalities Impact Assessment
• Further minimum 6 week consultation period• Final Ferries Plan