Ferguson Marine Hull 801 Acceptance Group minutes: 2 July 2024

Attendees and apologies

• [REDACTED] - Scottish Government (Chair)
• [REDACTED] – Scottish Government
• [REDACTED] – Scottish Government
• John Petticrew – CEO FMPG
• [REDACTED] – FMPG
• David Dishon – FMPG
• [REDACTED] – CMAL
• [REDACTED] - CMAL
• [REDACTED] – CalMac
• [REDACTED] – Transport Scotland

Items and actions

Actions from previous meeting

A021
Certificates to be given at handover. Work remains ongoing.
Action FMPG

A023
Remaining OORs are part of closing out of compartments which is currently underway. Technical expertise and signing off from CMAL is also underway.
More specific OOR close out to be shared and presented to working group weekly (past, pending, to go). This action to be closed off as it will be handled as part of compartment and system completion (with 72 hours to complete OORs within those) – new action to be raised (A030 – FMPG).  
Action – FMPG / CMAL

A027
Work remains ongoing till final handover.
Action – FMPG

A028
Warranty engineer - support engineer is normal to sail with the ship for approximately 4 weeks after handover. Work remains ongoing for a separate RDEL ask.
Action – FMPG

A029
Cost process for warranty – CMAL to provide SG within insight of this cost process for familiarity.
Action – FMPG

Hot topics

New action - CalMac to come back with reduced shake-down plan ahead of next week’s meeting (09 July). Anything needed from FMPG to help with this plan to be flagged by next week as well. Cross-over with handover of the vessel with the two running in parallel and FMPG to incorporate the CalMac shake-down plan into their own critical path to handover. (Action A031 to be added to log - CalMac)

LNG - Issues arisen on liquid phase line (pressure testing phase). FMPG need to go back in to find where it is coming from and fix it. Mitigations are being done to ensure impact is minimised.

An LNG certificated chief needed on board as MCA requirement to take the vessel to sea on sea trials (CalMac to look into this).

Engine room - beginning the cleaning process this weekend to help close out of compartment. This will allow time to paint the engine room prior to acceptance trails to help get ahead of programme to mitigate delay.

Remaining snagging items (that don’t impact operation of vessel) can be closed out after handover to help minimise delay. Costs for this need to be carefully considered if after handover. 

Crewing/spares cost – this needs to be aligned on the system between CalMac and FMPG for the completion of Glen Sannox.

Transport Scotland and SG to meet next week to discuss further the comms surrounding the delivery.

Any other business

JP noted that the teams across the different companies are working well together to help minimise the impact of delay.