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Peel partners to promote female education

Peel Ports Group has partnered with social enterprise Innovate Her to encourage diversity and inclusion and promote STEM subjects to hundreds of female students across Liverpool.   The national port operator has pledged its support to the organisation after recognising that the maritime sector must become more inclusive and support greater gender diversity.  Innovate Her is a values-led social enterprise based in the North West, that aims to equip more women with the ... [+]

Peel Ports signs academic tie-up

Peel Ports Group has entered into a partnership with the University of Liverpool’s Management School to enhance its new Innovation Forum. The Forum aims to answer some of the port operator’s most challenging questions in reducing carbon emissions as part of its commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2040. The Management School ... [+]

Peel Ports goes green

Peel Ports will switch to greener fuels for straddle carriers and plant equipment across most of its estate by 31 March.  It has been working closely with manufacturers such as JCB, Terberg and Combi-lift,  with testing of the new fuels starting in November last year.  The plan is for 45% of plant ... [+]

All change at Peel Ports

Peel Ports chairman Tom Allison is standing down 4 April but will remain on the Peel Group board as a non-executive director while current chief executive Mark Whitworth will stand down but assume the role of chairman. Claudio Veritiero will take over as new chief executive. Mark Whitworth (pictured, top) joined ... [+]

Peel wins award for its clean, green fleet

Peel Ports Group has won a Greenfleet award for switching more than 50% of its fleet to electric, in the Private Sector Commercial Fleet of the Year (Small to Medium) category. Peel Ports is saving an average of 132 g/km of CO2 per vehicle per week, or over 31 tonnes per year. The ... [+]

Peel Ports to go net zero in 19 years

Peel Ports Group has committed to becoming a net zero operator by 2040, ten years ahead of the UK Government’s national decarbonising targets. Peel owns the Port of Liverpool, Clydeport and London Medway, and says it is the first major port group to convey such ambitious plans towards tackling climate change. By ... [+]

Let’s spread the load, urges Peel Ports boss

Peel Ports, the UK’s second-largest port operator is calling for the supply chain to make better use of the entire port network across the country helping to address problems caused by bottlenecks in the South-East. Managing director of group ports, David Huck, says that, according to Maritime UK figures, the top ... [+]

Quality Freight becomes Peel Ports

Quality Freight UK is to change its name to Peel Ports Logistics to reflect its current owner, which acquired the business in 2019. The shipping and freight forwarding company will roll the new brand across the business, assets and digital platforms. Peel Ports Group and Quality Freight UK will continue to develop ... [+]

Peel completes Sheerness stage one

Peel Ports has completed its first, £27 million, round of investment at its 50-acre Wellmarsh site in Sheerness. A further 25-acres of timber storage facilities have been constructed, and the port is currently the largest terminal of its kind in the UK, handling 1.3 million tonnes of timber and forest ... [+]

Liverpool wins Turkey and Canada links

MSC is to introduce a new call in Liverpool, as part of a rotation including Canada, Turkey and southern European ports. It follows the news that the 2M alliance, of which MSC is a member with Maersk, will make Liverpool a permanent call on its TA4 transatlantic service. The new Canada ... [+]

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