Peel Ports, enjoying a busy period of securing new business streams, announced in late March plans for a new GBP10 million green automotive hub at a site on the River Mersey.
The hub, to be established in conjunction with logistics company Suardiz and automotive specialist Stellantis, will service a twice-weekly shipping route from Vigo in Spain to the Queen Elizabeth II Dock at Eastham which sits within Peel Port’s Mersey cluster.
The shipping service will supply parts for the Ellesmere Port vehicle manufacturing facility which is set to become the first of Stellantis’s plants to produce solely battery-electric models for commercial and passenger vehicles.
The project is reported as facilitating a greener end-to-end maritime logistics service taking an estimated 14,700 truck journeys annually off roads in the UK and continental Europe.
The hub is based on recommissioning an existing berth which forms part of 9.5 acre site on the River Mersey, adjacent to the Manchester Ship Canal, also operated by Peel Ports.
