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Peel Ports nails its colours to the mast

Peel Ports Group is once again supporting the Apprentice Ship Cup Challenge which gives youngsters a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn new skills while racing Tall Ships across the Irish Sea. Next year, Peel Ports, which put two teams of apprentices into the inaugural event, is to become the first major sponsor of the event. It will be run as part of the final day of the International ... [+]

All systems go in Sheerness

The port of Sheerness has unveiled plans to increase cargo throughput by 130% over the next 20 years inder a new Master Plan. It also details investments that would create over 1,000 jobs in the marine and maritime industry, as well as options for a rail link to Port to ... [+]

Liverpool opens plywood terminal

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 ... [+]

Peel joins Irish export group

Peel Ports Group has joined the Irish Exporters Association. It operates at Belfast (Victoria Terminal) and Dublin (Marine Terminals Limited) handling 30% of all containers entering the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Between them the terminals handle around 300,000 units of TEU every year. It also owns Irish Sea ... [+]

Liverpool2 set to create Merseyside jobs boom

The new Liverpool2 container terminal will boost Merseyside employment by around 5,000 jobs, says Peel Ports. Two-thirds of the direct jobs are expected to be taken by people living within a ten mile radius of the port, and will include full- and part-time opportunities for stevedores, pilots, launch crew, line ... [+]

Port Cheshire – tenants wanted

Peel Ports Group says it is looking for potential occupiers for its Port Cheshire multi-modal development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal. The site of the former Bridgewater Paper Mill in Ellesmere Port can be developed as a single unit of up to 1,000,000sq ftor as a number ... [+]

Peel appoints new commercial chief

Peel Ports has appointed Patrick Walters as group commercial director. One of the leading commercial executives in the UK ports industry, having held positions in P&O Ports, DP World and Associated British Ports. [+]

Sheerness is motoring with VW deal

Peel Ports has signed a ten-year deal with Volkswagen to build and oversee a new eight-acre pre delivery inspection (PDI) centre at the Port of Sheerness in Kent. The investment will create 100 supply chain jobs and increase automobile imports into Sheerness by 50,000 vehicles a year. Volkswagen Group will enjoy ... [+]

Liverpool digs deep

Dutch marine engineering specialists Van Oord has started dredging the River Mersey estuary in preparation for Liverpool2, Peel Ports Group’s £300m deepwater container terminal. Material dredged from the sea bed will help build the Seaforth triangle in the new terminal. [+]

Safe ashore

A group of Peel Ports apprentices have arrived back on dry land this week after completing the first ever apprentice Ship Cup Challenge – and took home the top Apprentice Ship Cup Award. The 17 trainees sailed on tall ship Pelican of London from Liverpool to Whitehaven via Belfast and ... [+]

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