The Scottish Ferries Review Consultation Document 2010 Arran - 12 July 2010 Graham Laidlaw

1. The Scottish Ferries Review Consultation Document 2010 Arran - 12 July 2010 Graham Laidlaw

2. Introduction • Consultation Document, not a Plan • Runs to 30 September 2010 • Questionnaires to complete and return • 33 key questions • scottishferriesreview@scotland.gsi.gov.uk • 0131 244 1539 • Documents available on our website

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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

13. Other Issues? • Accessibility • Environment

14. 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

15. 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)

16. Routes and Services Methodology • Define current and future needs relevant to other communities • Define the ferry service required to meet those needs • Define current service and current issues • Define gaps between steps 2 and 3 • Consider options to address gaps • Prioritise future spending

17. Step 1 - Define current needs • Commuting • Personal • Supply chain • Export/import • Tourism

18. Results of step 1 – Arran • Supply Chain and Export/Import are equally important • Followed by Personal and Tourism then Commuting

19. Defining a service to meet these needs • Chosen four attributes that largely define a ferry service: • Crossing time; • number of sailings per day; • length of operating day; and, • the number of days per week the service runs • Taken dependencies identified in step 1 and matched them against these four attributes

20. Results of steps 2 and 3 – Arran Attribute Proposed Actual • Crossing time medium short (75-180 mins) (less than 75-mins) • Sailing per day medium medium (3-6) (3-6)

21. 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)

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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