The race is on to save Ferguson Marine, the last commercial shipbuilder on the Clyde, after owners Clyde Blowers said a dispute with the Scottish government means they will have to close the business down. Nick Peters reports.
I visited Ferguson Marine in February this year to interview Jim McColl, the businessman whose Clyde Blowers Capital private equity firm bought Ferguson Marine out of administration in 2014. There was always a hint of romance in his doing so. McColl had been an engineering apprentice in the Clydeside yards in the 1960s, so he might…
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