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Peel Ports recruits project partners

[ April 27, 2023   //   ]

Peel Ports has developed a partnership programme and secured long-term agreements with a number of consultants to support infrastructure projects and deliver its capital investment programme for up to eight years.

The partners include Ramboll, Jacobs, Turner & Townsend, Currie & Brown UK, HaskoningDHV, Pell Frischmann, Tetra Tech, Tony Gee and Partners, Waterman Infrastructure & Environment and Arch Henderson.

It will cover specialist consultancy services, project management, and quantity surveying to support key infrastructure projects and feasibility work across all group projects and engineering operations.

Projects include the new Gladstone a rail-linked multi user bulk and steel facility in 2024.

Peel Ports is also working with a consortium led by the University of Liverpool to bid to become the UK’s Clean Maritime Research Hub.  

It has committed to participating in workshops, sharing operational port data and insights and allocating staff time to the project.

Clean Maritime Research Hub is part of the government’s UK SHORE maritime decarbonisation programme.

The programme is will provide funding for early research projects by UK universities. If successful, the University-led project will receive a total of £7.4m of funds over the course of the next four years.

The research hub would make Liverpool the UK centre of excellence for clean maritime research and facilitate further academic and industrial cooperation.  

The winning bid will be announced before the end of the summer by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Department of Transport.

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