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Atlantic Container Line (ACL) has confirmed that Liverpool will be the UK call for its fleet of five new ro ro-container ships due to be introduced into its North Atlantic Services. Liverpool’s owner, the Peel Ports Group said it would invest £310 million to widen the Seaforth Passage and create a 70,000 vehicles-per-year dedicated car storage area.
ACL has called in Liverpool since 1969.
ACL itself is expanding its Liverpool office to ...
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Peel Ports' Liverpool has gained a new Far East break bulk service operated by Westfal-Larsen Shipping. The new breakbulk service will carry steel and plywood, opening up the option of shipping smaller parcels from Far East suppliers.
The M/V Osakana, one of Westfal-Larsen’s O class fleet of vessels, was the first ...
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Peel Ports recently helped local firm Hy-Ten deliver a shipment of steel from Turkey on time despite weather delays. The ship berthed at the container terminal - the first time that a steel ship had done so in 16 years – and the team at Peel Ports worked round the ...
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Peel Ports has completed an £8m upgrade to the Port of Liverpool animal feed warehouse. The GAFTA- (Grain and Feed Trade Association) approved facility, now has a capacity of 140,000 tonnes and is dedicated to a single customer, global animal feed trader and stockholder Arkady Feed.
The port has invested in ...
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Ellesmere Port-based Quality Freight has transported some of the components for Alstom’s new power station in Trafford, Manchester via its local port. The modules are being shipped into Ellesmere Port – whose owner, Peel Ports, recently announced a plan to market the the location as as a logistics hub – ...
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Peel Ports Group is restructuring its Ireland and Northern Ireland teams, after a recent review of activities at its Belfast and Dublin container terminals. Gerard Gaffney becomes the new head of container terminal operations for Ireland and will oversee operational activity at Peel Ports’ Belfast and Dublin container terminals. He ...
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Peel Ports Group has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle and B8 Real Estate to master-plan and market the former Bridgewater paper mill site at Ellesmere Port as a logistics hub. Plans for the site on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal got the green light from local planning authorities earlier ...
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Liverpool-based B&M Retail has signed a deal with Peel Ports to handle an extra 85,000 pallets of stock in the run up to Christmas. Stock for the discount retailer that would otherwise have been moved to warehouses across the North West, will be stored and distributed direct from the Port ...
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Peel Ports has appointed Farrans Construction to upgrade Gladstone Lock and the adjacent quayside infrastructure at the Port of Liverpool, ahead of the launch of the port’s deep water container terminal Liverpool2 in 2015. The increasing size of modern vessels has led to a need to increase the width of ...
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Peel Ports has completed refinancing of some of its bank facilities. Three specialist infrastructure investors – Westbourne, IFM and AXA - have provided funds which have allowed £152.5m of debt to be refinanced. The debt is in the form of eight-year loans and refinances portions of three-year debt raised by ...
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