A new £6m replacement Strangford ferry remains tied up in County Down because problems with the ramps mean vehicles are unable to drive off it. The ramps on the vessel, which was specifically built ...

THE Strangford Lough ferry service resumed on Wednesday after it was suspended to allow for repair work to its two vessels. The service is run by the Department for Infrastructure, which said one of ...

MORE than £9 million of public money has been spent maintaining the Strangford ferry service in the past six years. It has cost the Department for Regional Development (DRD) an average of £1.5m per ...

A ferry costing £6m has not sailed between Strangford and Portaferry since March 2022. MV Strangford II was brought into service in 2017 but the Department of Infrastructure said it was not sailing ...

The Strangford Lough passenger ferry has been suspended due to high winds. It comes as the vehicle service ferry was suspended last week to allow for essential health and safety works to the slipways.

THE new £2.7m Strangford Lough ferry - the MV Portaferry II - was this week formally handed over to the Department for Regional Development's Roads Service by shipbuilders McTay Marine of Merseyside.

A new £6m replacement Strangford ferry remains tied up in County Down because problems with the ramps mean vehicles are unable to drive off it. The ramps on the vessel, which was specifically built ...