Shanghai company wins UK port deal
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A Shanghai company has won a 100-million-pound (US$176.8 million) contract to supply cranes for what is the biggest-ever expansion project at the Port of Liverpool.
The owner of the port, Manchester-based Peel Ports, has placed an order for a series of cranes for its new 300-million-pound deep-water port currently under construction on the River Mersey in northern England.
The contract for the cranes has been signed with Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co, which is supplying eight ship-to-shore megamax quay cranes and 22 cantilever rail-mounted gantry cranes.
The project will enable the Port of Liverpool to handle the world’s largest container ships, currently unable to use the existing docks complex which is restricted because it has to be accessed through dock gates.
Peel said that when the new facility is completed, the port will be able to cater for ships carrying up to 13,000 standard-sized containers, up from 5,000 at present.
The project is backed by the city’s political leaders who say the expansion is expected to reposition Liverpool as the main multi-modal freight and logistics hub in an area spanning more than half of Britain — stretching from the north of England to the whole of Scotland. The aspiration for the port is to rival leading international ports in New York, Dubai and Singapore.
Scheduled to open next year, the new facility, known as “Liverpool2,” is expected to add an extra 500,000 containers annually to the port’s capacity. It will take total annual volumes to around 2 million containers.
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