Liverpool post-panamax terminal gets nod

The £90m development on the River Mersey would virtually double container capacity at the Port of Liverpool, already Britain’s third ranking deep sea container port.

Tom Allison, chief executive of Liverpool-owner Peel Ports, Britain’s second largest ports group, described the decision as “the most significant development for the Port of Liverpool since the construction of Royal Seaforth Dock in the late 1960s and early ’70s”. The new terminal will be created by building a river wall from the corner of Royal Seaforth Dock to Gladstone Lock, close to the mouth of the Mersey. The triangle will then be filled in to create a 17 hectare (42 acre) terminal with annual capacity for more than 500,000 teu, capable of simultaneously accom-modating two post-panamax ships.