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Award for Peel’s Mark Whitworth

Peel Ports chief executive Mark Whitworth has been named Business Person of the Year at the Liverpool Echo Regional Business Awards thanks to his role in facilitating more than £650million worth of investment at the Port of Liverpool and the Manchester Ship Canal. Whitworth joined Peel Ports in 2010 and has overseen the company’s profit from £119million a year to in excess of £210 million a year.   [+]

Peel Ports ready for new weighing rules

Peel Ports has finishing construction of weighbridges at the port of Liverpool in time for the new SOLAS verified gross mass rules which come into force on 1 July. It involved considerable work to install multiple dynamic axle weighbridges at the terminal AutoGates linked with the terminal operating system. Similar arrangements ... [+]

Heavy metal in Liverpool

Peel Ports has formally opened what it describes as the UK’s first fully-automated steel terminal at the Port of Liverpool and has confirmed plans for a similar development at Sheerness in South-east England. The a £9m investment at Liverpool’s Canada dock – with the support of Denholm Handling - will provide ... [+]

Port Salford opens for business

Peel Ports officially opened its Port Salford development on the Manchester Ship Canal on 31 May. Culina Group has taken the first warehouse unit, of 26,022 sq m (280,000 sq ft), with food firm General Mills as its anchor client. The site will act as a central hub for General ... [+]

More CMA space to Liverpool

CMA CGM has increased the capacity on its West Coast Feeder service via Liverpool from a 900 to a 2,200teu vessel. The service begins in Antwerp and also calls at Greenock, Belfast, Dublin and Le Havre. In late April, Liverpool owner Peel Ports celebrated the return of Maersk to Liverpool when ... [+]

Minister sees Liverpool’s new port

Transport Minister, Andrew Jones visited the Port of Liverpool on 16 May to view the latest developments at Liverpool2 as the terminal approaches its opening. The minister received a tour of the site during a visit to the city to discuss prospective improvements to the major A5036 corridor. Warren Marshall, Group ... [+]

MSC boss is Multimodal man of the year

MSC managing director Dan Everitt was named FTA Multimodal Personality of the Year on 10 May, the opening day of the show, which welcomed a record numbers of visitors. Peel Ports was Multimodal Exhibitor of the Year, Joseph Peak of Expeditors won the Young Logistics Professional Award, and Marks and Spencer ... [+]

Ports and the Powerhouse

Multimodal delegates will hear of the critical role of government investment in supply chain infrastructure and skills to the Northern Powerhouse vision, at a seminar at 4.30pm on Wednesday 11 May. Peel Ports’ Patrick Walters is calling for Westminster to ensure that funding is prioritised for strategic developments that will support ... [+]

Maersk back in Liverpool after ten years

Peel Ports celebrated the return of Maersk to Liverpool when its feeder vessel, Antwerp, arrived in port on 27 April. The 1,100teu ship made its first call as part of a new service by Maersk’s Seago short-sea arm on a new route between Algeciras, Liverpool and Dublin. This is the first ... [+]

New cranes on the Mersey

The first six cantilever rail-mounted gantry (CRMG) cranes arrived in the River Mersey on 1 May for the Liverpool2 deep-water container terminal. Produced by leading Chinese manufacturer ZPMC, which also supplied the five ship-to-shore cranes already on site, they are the first of 12 required for phase 1 of the terminal. ... [+]

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