Scandal-hit Ferguson Marine has hired a business performance coach to speed up work on two delayed and over budget CalMac ferries. Jim Gibson, 69, joined the board of the nationalised shipyard in Port Glasgow as a non-executive director. The firm is building the MV Glen Sannox and MV Glen Rosa, due to launch on Tuesday, which are six years late and will cost around three times their original £97million price.
Ferguson Marine’s latest accounts state non-executive directors work at least four days a month for £320 per day plus travel expenses – earning Gibson between £15,000-£20,000 a year. The move emerged after Ferguson chief executive David Tydeman was sacked. Mairi McAllan, the Minister responsible for ferries, denied any involvemen
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