MUCH has been said about Scotland’s ongoing ferry fiasco which has left the network with a large number of passengers but hardly any ships.

It should be the gold standard of marine disasters, an exemplar to show the world how not to do things.

But it appears that Scotland’s ongoing chaos has been knocked off the top spot in the league table of shame for state-run ferry mishaps.

When I say mishaps, this is probably understating it a tad.

But a huge newly constructed ship is to be mothballed in Edinburgh as a result of a “ferries fiasco” on the other side of the world.

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The 212m-long (695ft) Spirit of Tasmania IV will be stored at Port of Leith because it is too large to fit the existing berths in the Australian city of Devonport.

The ferry was........

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