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Peel Ports has hit its target of securing 200 advocates for its campaign encouraging shipping lines to introduce direct deep-sea services to the Port of Liverpool. The milestone was announced on 5 April at Multimodal, almost exactly two years since the campaign was launched at the same event.
Warburtons, the UK’s biggest bread brand, and EMR joined Peel Ports to make the announcement and underline the benefits to cargo owners that ...
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Peel Ports says its Greenock Ocean Terminal near Glasgow expects to double its business in the next five years thanks to the opening of Liverpool2.
Greenock, which exports goods including Scotch whisky and Scottish food stuffs – is projected to handle 200,000teu a year by 2021, compared with 100,000teu currently.
Port director, ...
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Paris in Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool handled its largest ever containership at its new deepwater terminal on 6 March. Liverpool2 played host to MSC’s 6,552teu HS Paris, which is the first post-Panamax vessel to call since opening of phase 1 opening of the new terminal last November.
Chief executive of Peel ...
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Forwarder Rhenus Logistics has confirmed started building its new headquarters and warehouse at Port Salford, on the Manchester Ship Canal, expected to be fully operational by late 2017.
Rhenus says it has enjoyed strong and sustainable growth, with the past year seeing a 10% increase in volumes and is relocating its ...
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Certas Energy and Peel Ports have officially opened the new truck refuelling site at the Port of Liverpool. High speed pumps that pump 120 litres of fuel per minute will allow eight vehicles to fill up at the same time.
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Dock workers staged a protest on 13 January over the lack of welfare facilities for workers and drivers visiting Peel Ports’ newly enlarged Liverpool Seaforth container terminal.
Members of the Unite union criticised the toilet facilities which it said were inadequate for the 350 workers at the site, the lack of ...
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The new Liverpool2 container terminal will be officially opened today (Friday 4 November) by the Secretary of State for International Trade, Dr Liam Fox MP.
The £400 million investment by Peel Ports, one of the UK’s biggest port operators, will provide a state-of-the-art ocean gateway for a catchment area of over ...
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Peel Ports Sheerness handled its biggest agri-bulk vessel to date in October. The 170m long, 18,000 tonne MV Arki loaded 30,000 tonnes of milling quality wheat from south-east England farms, destined for North Africa on behalf of Glencore Grain.
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Peel Ports is to invest £10m in a new link-span bridge and a fourth berth at Heysham to handle larger ferries.
It will also create a new port entrance and improve IT and terminal operating systems.
Work will begin in November and is expected to be completed by October 2017.
It follows the ...
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Port of Liverpool owner Peel Ports has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to promote trade routes between Liverpool and the west coast of South America ahead of the opening of its Liverpool2 container terminal in early November.
The agreement was signed on 24 October by ...
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