00:00The name of the new Mersey Ferry has been revealed as work on the 26 million pound project is currently underway in Birkenhead.
00:09The Royal Daffodil will become the sixth Mersey Ferry to bear the name first used in the early 1900s when it entered service in the summer of 2026.
00:18Work on the project is currently being carried out at Birkenhead shipyard Camel Laird.
00:23Metro Mayor Steve Rotherham said it was a significant milestone as a shape of the new ferry emerges with most of the works completed by December,
00:32adding this will be a significant improvement in terms of what we've got.
00:37He continued, the current ferries are older than me, they're coming to the end of their life and they have to be replaced.
00:43We've done it in a way where the new ferry will be cleaner and greener, more efficient, more open, more accessible.
00:49It will be used not just for commuter services, they'll also be commercialised to get a return.
00:55The ferries cost a lot of money to maintain at the moment.
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