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Peel joins Irish export group

Peel Ports Group has joined the Irish Exporters Association. It operates at Belfast (Victoria Terminal) and Dublin (Marine Terminals Limited) handling 30% of all containers entering the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Between them the terminals handle around 300,000 units of TEU every year. It also owns Irish Sea specialist BG Freight Line. Membership to the IEA will not only open up access to a wide community of exporters and ... [+]

Liverpool2 set to create Merseyside jobs boom

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 ... [+]

Port Cheshire – tenants wanted

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 ... [+]

Peel appoints new commercial chief

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. [+]

Sheerness is motoring with VW deal

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 ... [+]

Liverpool digs deep

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. [+]

Safe ashore

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 ... [+]

Liverpool confirmed for new ACL ships

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 ... [+]

Far East service for Liverpool

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 ... [+]

Liverpool defies the storms

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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