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The new Liverpool2 container terminal will boost Merseyside employment by around 5,000 jobs, says Peel Ports. Two-thirds of the direct jobs are expected to be taken by people living within a ten mile radius of the port, and will include full- and part-time opportunities for stevedores, pilots, launch crew, line handlers, plant operators, haulage administrators, vessel planning and supervision staff, and work in management, accounts and commercial services.
However, the recruitment ...
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Peel Ports Group says it is looking for potential occupiers for its Port Cheshire multi-modal development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. The site of the former Bridgewater Paper Mill in Ellesmere Port can be developed as a single unit of up to 1,000,000sq ftor as a number ...
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Peel Ports has appointed Patrick Walters as group commercial director. One of the leading commercial executives in the UK ports industry, having held positions in P&O Ports, DP World and Associated British Ports.
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Peel Ports has signed a ten-year deal with Volkswagen to build and oversee a new eight-acre pre delivery inspection (PDI) centre at the Port of Sheerness in Kent. The investment will create 100 supply chain jobs and increase automobile imports into Sheerness by 50,000 vehicles a year.
Volkswagen Group will enjoy ...
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Dutch marine engineering specialists Van Oord has started dredging the River Mersey estuary in preparation for Liverpool2, Peel Ports Group’s £300m deepwater container terminal. Material dredged from the sea bed will help build the Seaforth triangle in the new terminal.
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A group of Peel Ports apprentices have arrived back on dry land this week after completing the first ever apprentice Ship Cup Challenge – and took home the top Apprentice Ship Cup Award. The 17 trainees sailed on tall ship Pelican of London from Liverpool to Whitehaven via Belfast and ...
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Atlantic Container Line (ACL) has confirmed that Liverpool will be the UK call for its fleet of five new ro ro-container ships due to be introduced into its North Atlantic Services. Liverpool’s owner, the Peel Ports Group said it would invest £310 million to widen the Seaforth Passage and create ...
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Peel Ports' Liverpool has gained a new Far East break bulk service operated by Westfal-Larsen Shipping. The new breakbulk service will carry steel and plywood, opening up the option of shipping smaller parcels from Far East suppliers.
The M/V Osakana, one of Westfal-Larsen’s O class fleet of vessels, was the first ...
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Peel Ports recently helped local firm Hy-Ten deliver a shipment of steel from Turkey on time despite weather delays. The ship berthed at the container terminal - the first time that a steel ship had done so in 16 years – and the team at Peel Ports worked round the ...
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Peel Ports has completed an £8m upgrade to the Port of Liverpool animal feed warehouse. The GAFTA- (Grain and Feed Trade Association) approved facility, now has a capacity of 140,000 tonnes and is dedicated to a single customer, global animal feed trader and stockholder Arkady Feed.
The port has invested in ...
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