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Construction firm McLaughlin & Harvey has completed a bulk warehouse at the Port of Liverpool. Situated quayside on Alexandra Dock, McLaughlin & Harvey the 282,000sq ft building is 375m long and the length of three and a half football pitches. It contains over 5,500 piles, 11,000m3 of concrete and 1.35km of precast concrete walls.
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The port of Liverpool celebrated the 300th birthday of a shipping innovation more important than even the ubiquitous box on 31 August – the opening of the world’s oldest enclosed commercial wet dock. When it opened in 1715, the ‘old dock’, as it is now known (though presumably it was ...
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Chair of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee, Louise Ellman MP visited the Port of Liverpool on 7 August) to inspect progress at the £100m biomass terminal project. She met with senior representatives from Peel Ports and Drax Group on a tour of the new biomass terminal which will ...
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The port of Liverpool turned on one of the largest private electricity connections in the UK of recent years, on 27 February. Teams from Peel Ports and SP Energy Networks have been working together to create a new power network for the Liverpool2 container terminal development which is under construction.
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Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin (right, with Mark Whitworth, chief executive of Peel Ports, left) and the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson visited the Port of Liverpool to view progress on the Port’s £300 million expansion project. Construction is well underway on the new Liverpool2 terminal.
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Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce's Ram Bhogal recently toured the port of Liverpool as part of a two-day visit to the city. Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce is one of India’s largest and most active business organisations and Mr Bhogale is also chairman of leading manufacturer AITG, which manufactures a range of ...
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CMA CGM's short-sea operator MacAndrews is upping its service from Bilbao to Liverpool from three calls a week to four, having added a fourth vessel to its fleet. Liverpool will also be the first call on the new loop after departing from Bilbao; arrivals in the port will now be ...
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Liverpool Plywood Terminal is due to open on 31 October, six months after Peel Ports struck a deal with Westfal-Larsen Shipping to bring combined shipments of steel and plywood into the Port of Liverpool on a new Far East service. The 80,000sq ft temperature-controlled quayside warehouse at Seaforth will radically ...
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The Unite trade union is calling for the pay, and terms and conditions, of 300 workers at the Port of Liverpool after Drake Port Distribution Services – which had held the contract since 1995 - lost a labour supply contract to Blue Arrow. On 16 October, the workforce called for ...
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Peel Ports Group is to spend £5.5m on AutoGates technology as part of its investment in the deep-water Liverpool2 expansion due to be open next year. At present, a manual system requires drivers to register at a site office, where they complete a form and wait for clearance before entering. ...
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