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Union signs Liverpool pay deal

Unite members working for Peel Ports Liverpool Container Terminal have voted to accept a pay deal that will see their pay rise by 10% over the next three years in addition to improvements to their terms and conditions. The union added that it also cements the end of agency labour within the port with dockworkers now employed directly by Port Authority Peel Ports. [+]

Liverpool handles Cosco call

The Port of Liverpool handled a vessel operated by China’s largest shipping line, Cosco on 17 October. The MV Jork was on a feeder service from Rotterdam.  Peel ports described the call as “an important milestone”, adding that it would look to evolve the trial service into a permanent call. Peel ... [+]

Maritime minister drops in on Liverpool

Fresh from her visit to London Gateway to name Hapag-Lloyd’s latest 15,000teu ship the Afif on 16 July, it was the turn of Peel Ports to welcome Maritime Minister Nusrat Ghani to its Liverpool2 container terminal on 25 July. The visit comes as the terminal prepares to welcome its largest regular ... [+]

Liverpool to handle biggest box ships yet

Peel Ports’ new Liverpool2, container terminal will handle its largest regular caller to date when the 2M (Maersk and MSC) alliance temporarily switch their TA2 transatlantic service from Felixstowe on 22 July. At the same time, Maersk Line’s Colombia Express will also start an export service from Liverpool to Newark, New ... [+]

Heysham opens bridge to growth

Heysham Port has officially opened its new link-span bridge at as part of a £10m investment by its owner-operator Peel Ports. The port is gateway for Irish Sea trade with daily sailings operated by Seatruck, Stena Line and the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company. As well as the new link-span, ... [+]

Peel launches the Scouse-Scottish express

Peel Ports has partnered with DB Cargo UK to provide a new container rail service between the Port of Liverpool and Scotland for the first time. The service, due to begin on 8 May, will operate to Mossend terminal in Glasgow, with onward road delivery to destinations across Scotland. The new ... [+]

Peel Ports appoints Sheerness director

Peel Ports has appointed Richard Goffin as port director at its London Medway Sheerness facility. For the past two years he was port director at Peel Ports Great Yarmouth, a post he will continue to hold. He replaces previous Port Director Paul Barker, who will now head up the group’s ... [+]

Seeking the next generation of logistics managers

Freight industry public relations firm Meantime Communications is to launch the NextGen Logistics Network, a new community of young professionals in logistics and supply chain, at Multimodal on 3 May. It will bring together members and companies from across all modes, as well as 3PLs, tech companies, and forwarders. The new community ... [+]

Liverpool is full of beans

CWT Commodities, the UK’s largest importer of cocoa and coffee beans is to build a new warehouse at the Port of Liverpool Mazdon Construction will build a 36,000sq ft warehouse and new offices on the site which the trader is leasing from Liverpool’s owner, Peel Ports. Nearly 65,000 tonnes of cocoa beans, ... [+]

New hope for Hunterston

Peel Ports Hunterston Port and Resource Centre (PARC) in Ayrshire has won grant funding from the Scottish Government swhich it says could pave the way for the site to become one of the UK’s most important oil and gas decommissioning facilities. Peel Ports has accepted a grant offer of £240,000 under ... [+]

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