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Peel Ports Group has appointed Jonathan Rayner as chief commercial officer, following Stephen Carr’s decision to step down as group commercial director at the end of November.
Jonathan Rayner joins the group from London Luton Airport, where he has served as chief commercial officer since 2020. His earlier career includes senior commercial and operational roles across major UK airports and infrastructure organisations.
In his new role at Peel Ports Group, Jonathan will ...
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Peel Ports is to revitalise itsEastfloat Terminal at Birkenhead Port with a £10 million redevelopment.
The terminal, on the opposite side of the Mersey Estuary from the port of Liverpool will be completely redeveloped, creating around 300,000sq ft of indoor and 160,000 sq ft of outdoor storage capacity.
The works, set to ...
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Peel Ports Group has appointed Gavin Laybourne as its chief technology and information officer (CTIO), the first person to hold the role at the company.
He will join the group’s executive team and lead all its technology and information-related activities, including IT, cyber security, data analytics, green technologies, and the ongoing ...
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Peel Ports Group is to invest £100m in extending its steels and metals capacity. It will spend £32m to add a further 140,000sq ft of storage at its Liverpool terminals and, overall across the ports of Liverpool and London Medway, warehousing will be increased by 50% from the current 1 ...
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A proposal to build a new rail line from Liverpool to Manchester – paralleling the historic route built by George Stephenson in 1830 – would boost rail freight in the region, says Peel Ports Group.
It says that the proposal unveiled by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority highlight the critical importance ...
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Peel Ports Clydeport has secured permission for redevelopment of the Hunterston marine yard into a hub for the renewables industry.
Work is expected to start in early 2025 and last for around two years and will include substantial upgrades to the marine yard, including infilling the current dry-dock basin and the ...
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Peel Ports Group investing £30million in a new in-riverro ro berth at Sheerness.
The in-river vessel berth and floating pontoon developed will increase capacity for wheeled cargo and cater for larger vessels exceeding 230 metres overall length.
Expected traffic are automotive, paper reels and timber, construction machinery and building materials, project cargo, ...
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Peel Ports, the National Oceanography Centre and the Channel Coastal Observatory are collaborating in a project use satellites to monitor coastal changes and create safer navigation channels. They will use satellite surveillance to assess where maintenance is needed over a six-month period. Funded by UK Space Agency Small Business Research ...
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Peel Ports Group’s Queen Elizabeth II Dock at Eastham near Ellesmere is to use hydropower as part of its drive to become net-zero across its network and operations by 2040.
The port operator has partnered with Czech renewable energy specialist Hydropol to install a twin Archimedean screw generator, at the site's ...
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Peel Ports Group is inviting contractors to submit bids for a major long-term programme of construction works across its UK and Ireland sites, worth a total of £750 million.
The projects are across the group’s entire portfolio of UK and Ireland ports, Liverpool, Heysham, Manchester Ship Canal, London Medway, Clydeport, Great ...
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