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Ellesmere Port-based Quality Freight has transported some of the components for Alstom’s new power station in Trafford, Manchester via its local port. The modules are being shipped into Ellesmere Port – whose owner, Peel Ports, recently announced a plan to market the the location as as a logistics hub – and discharged using specialist heavy lift gear. The components are then transferred to barges for onward delivery on the Manchester ...
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Peel Ports Group is restructuring its Ireland and Northern Ireland teams, after a recent review of activities at its Belfast and Dublin container terminals. Gerard Gaffney becomes the new head of container terminal operations for Ireland and will oversee operational activity at Peel Ports’ Belfast and Dublin container terminals. He ...
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Peel Ports Group has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle and B8 Real Estate to master-plan and market the former Bridgewater paper mill site at Ellesmere Port as a logistics hub. Plans for the site on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal got the green light from local planning authorities earlier ...
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Liverpool-based B&M Retail has signed a deal with Peel Ports to handle an extra 85,000 pallets of stock in the run up to Christmas. Stock for the discount retailer that would otherwise have been moved to warehouses across the North West, will be stored and distributed direct from the Port ...
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Peel Ports has appointed Farrans Construction to upgrade Gladstone Lock and the adjacent quayside infrastructure at the Port of Liverpool, ahead of the launch of the port’s deep water container terminal Liverpool2 in 2015. The increasing size of modern vessels has led to a need to increase the width of ...
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Peel Ports has completed refinancing of some of its bank facilities. Three specialist infrastructure investors – Westbourne, IFM and AXA - have provided funds which have allowed £152.5m of debt to be refinanced. The debt is in the form of eight-year loans and refinances portions of three-year debt raised by ...
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Peel Ports' shortsea and feeder subsidiary BG Freight Line is to increase the frequency of its services between Rotterdam, Liverpool and Ireland following a surge in demand.
The Jork Ruler and Doris Schepers will join the Margareta B to provide an express twice-weekly connection between Rotterdam and Liverpool. The Jork Ruler ...
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Ship Canal shuttle service to slash supply chain road miles by 85%
In a deal that includes flexible ‘on demand’ warehousing at the Port of Liverpool, Kellogg will substantially increase the efficiency of its supply chain and take hundreds of trucks off UK roads.
The global cereal company, which has long-stated its ...
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Peel Ports is backing what it describes as the UK’s only Low Carbon and SuperPort University Technical College, which has just entered into its consultation period.
The port group hopes that the University Technical College – UTC – which is due to open in 2014, will give young people in the ...
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Less than a year after its last vessel upgrade in May 2012, Peel Ports has invested in a still larger vessel for its Manchester Ship Canal container service – thanks to a marked increase in demand from customers including Kellogg, Princes Foods and Kingsland Wine.
The Coastal Deniz can carry 260 teu ...
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