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Peel Ports Group has appointed former Amazon head Jamie Strain as its new port director in Scotland.
He will lead the port operator’s Peel Ports Clydeport business, overseeing its key Scottish sites, including the Hunterston PARC site in Ayrshire, KGV Dock in Glasgow, and the Port of Greenock, including nearby Inchgreen Marine Park.
Jamie Strain was Site lead general manager at one of the UK’s largest Amazon distribution centres in Dunfermline.
He replaces ...
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Peel Ports Group has appointed shipping exepert Audrey Dolhen as its new chief operating officer for unitised cargo.
She joins the port operator from ZIM Shipping, where was managing director for the UK business and brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across the container shipping and logistics sector.
In her ...
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Agri company ADM is expanding its Scottish operations with new storage and berthing capacity at the Port of Greenock. The expansion at the Peel Ports Group-owned facility builds on ADM's existing operations at the port operator’s King George V Dock in Glasgow. The two locations will create a more integrated ...
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Peel Ports Group is to introduce free prostate cancer testing for all its male staff, thanks to a proposal from its own employees.
Believed to be the first UK port operator to introduce such an initiative, the Group will invest in a testing programme with kits provided to staff at all ...
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Fleete has officially opened the UK’s largest dedicated commercial vehicle electric charging hub at the Port of Tilbury. The 5MW facility features 16 ultra-rapid chargers for HGVs to charge simultaneously. It is the first of a network of shared commercial vehicle charging hubs to provide charging at strategic locations without ...
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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 ...
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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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