Peel Ports names contractor for Liverpool2

The terminal, which will bring some of the world’s largest container ships to the Mersey, will be open for business in 2015. Located in the River Mersey, it will avoid vessel size restrictions of the current container terminal, which is located within a closed dock system accessed by locks.

As principal contractor, Lend Lease will be Peel Ports’ construction partner for the Liverpool2 development, and a key part of the project delivery team.

Lend Lease will drive the overall programme, support operations, and will collaborate with Peel Ports’ team in managing value together in such areas as establishing site facilities and rules, obtaining the best from the still to be named quay wall contractor, optimising the electricity solution and designs for ancillary works and ensuring the efficient and cost effective delivery of work packages.

Peel Ports Mersey’s managing director Gary Hodgson said, “This facility represents a transformational project for the Peel Ports business. It will bring thousands of jobs and economic prosperity to the Merseyside region along with the rest of the north west. The Liverpool2 brand will become known throughout the world as our new container terminal brings customers to the north west from all points of the compass, from South America to the Far East.”

The new terminal will accommodate two vessels of up to 13,500 TEU at a time. It will allow shipping lines, exporters and importers to connect to the UK’s major trade centres in a cost efficient and carbon friendly manner as a result of the container terminal being located in the centre of the British Isles.

The construction programme comprises of a new 854m quay wall, the infilling of the newly created land mass, the dredging of a new 16.5m deep berthing pocket adjacent to the quay wall, the installation of ship to shore quay cranes and modern cantilever rail mounted gantry cranes (CRMGs) and associated supporting infrastructure works. The quay wall contractor will be named in the near future, and further packages of work will be advertised, including design and consultancy services.