Peel Ports Liverpool sits on both banks of the River Mersey in a strategic vantage point within the North West with direct links to major UK motorway networks. Your journey need not begin and end in Liverpool, with a purpose-built rail terminal allowing us to co-ordinate the onward transportation of your cargo seamlessly and efficiently.
West coast hub
With deep water berths, state-of-the-art facilities and future-proofed equipment, the port’s strategic location on both sides of the River Mersey and the Manchester Ship Canal means that it’s also one of the country’s best connected.
The Port of Liverpool operates two container terminals, the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal (RSCT) and Liverpool2. The two main terminals are complemented by facilities at Greenock in Scotland, Dublin in Ireland and at inland ports along the Manchester Ship Canal.
Significant investment in infrastructure and technology means that the Port of Liverpool is at the cutting edge of the global logistics industry. As well as offering everything you would expect from a leading port operator, we’ve driven innovation with the creation of an advanced container terminal at Liverpool2, purpose-built terminals for biomass and steel and multi-user warehousing to suit the diverse needs of our customers.
Liverpool provides the quickest and cheapest route to major markets and is the best connected container terminal in the country, with ten motorways located within ten miles. By choosing Liverpool, you can take advantage of our strategic location, hinterland connectivity and a closer proximity to UK import and export markets, reducing cost, carbon and congestion.
Liverpool 2
With its multi-million deep water container terminal, Liverpool2 is ideally positioned to offer an alternative to traditional service routes and is well placed for transatlantic trade, and is a viable call for the sub-continent, Far East services and deep-sea lines. Partnering with the Port of Liverpool gives you access to round-the-clock services using best in class terminal operating systems. The port’s central location means that multimodal connection services via road and rail get your cargo where it needs to be via the most efficient route possible. We are able to offer close proximity to markets, creating a more reliable and sustainable way for cargo owners to get their goods to their end destination.
Royal Seaforth Container Terminal (RSCT)
RSCT is the Port of Liverpool’s longest servicing container terminal. It has undergone significant investment in recent years including widening of passage entrance into Seaforth Basin, as well as, the addition of three new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes with increased height and reach, adding capacity to the dedicated vehicle storage area to handle ACL’s growing cargo requirements
The terminal has direct deep-sea and short-sea connections to a range of countries, including a direct transatlantic service from ACL, Canada, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus and Turkey, in addition to a number of feeder services connecting Liverpool India, Africa and South America, as well as, a niche Far East service.
Value-added services
Our strengths lie in the diversity of our capacity, whether you’re looking for unaccompanied roll-on-roll-off (RoRo) services, project cargo handling or multi-user warehousing, you can rely on the Port of Liverpool to provide a logistics solution best tailored to suit your needs.
The port is also home to the £400m Liverpool2 terminal, a shining light in container shipping with advanced facilities, port-side storage and the flexibility to meet the demands of each and every customer, growing in strength each year with major connections worldwide.
- Strategically located position
- Deep water capabilities
- Leading infrastructure, equipment and services
- Irish Sea Hub
- Warehousing and Storage solution
- Immediate access to major road and rail networks
Peel Ports Liverpool sits on both banks of the River Mersey in a strategic vantage point within the North West with direct links to major UK motorway networks. Your journey need not begin and end in Liverpool, with a purpose-built rail terminal allowing us to coordinate the onward transportation of your cargo seamlessly and efficiently.
Location
Commodities we handle
Heavy investment in state-of-the-art equipment and technology, as well as decades of experience, means that whatever the commodity or whatever the challenge, the Port of Liverpool is able to handle it.
Providing a service fit for the future is central to our offering. This includes the building of a £100m biomass facility, investing in the facilities to support offshore renewables projects, automated gates to reduce queues and opening the UK’s first fully automated steel terminal – among many others.
Containers
Cruise
Dry bulks
Energy products
Forest products
Liquid bulks
Metals
Project cargo
RoRo
Offshore / Decommissioning
Liverpool2 Container Terminal
As one of the most operationally efficient and modern terminals in Northern Europe, it is capable of accommodating the world's largest container vessels, future-proofing the facility to allow global shippers 'ship-to-door' access to major import and centres at the heart of the UK.
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RSCT
Royal Seaforth Container Terminal is the longest serving container terminal with direct deep-sea and short-sea connections to a range of countries, including a direct transatlantic service from ACL, Canada, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus and Turkey, in addition to a number of feeder services connecting Liverpool India, Africa and South America, as well as, a niche Far East service.
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Rail Terminal
The Port of Liverpool has its own integrated rail terminal which connects the deep water facility directly to the rest of the country. The available train path capacity directly to and from the Port of Liverpool is currently amongst the highest of all major ports within the UK, our rail freight service provides vital flexibility for import and export supply chains while also minimising costs, crowding, and carbon emissions. Liverpool's geographic advantages also offers unrivalled expansion opportunities to the rest of the UK.
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Birkenhead Docks
Close to the Port of Liverpool is the Twelve Quays terminal at Birkenhead, which includes best in class facilities to service next-generation RoRo ferry vessels across the Irish Sea. Recent investment has further enhanced berthing facilities for larger, more modern vessels, helping reduce turnaround times and improving import and export capacity.
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Biomass Terminal
By making use of our expertise and large land footprint, we were able to develop a £100 million custom-built biomass import terminal located at Gladstone Dock at Peel Ports Liverpool.
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Services at Liverpool
Here at Peel Ports Liverpool we’re ideally placed to provide you with unique, tailor made solutions to ensure you have an efficient and effective supply chain. Sitting on both banks of the River Mersey, we’re one of the largest and busiest ports in the UK and our strength lies in the diversity of commodities we can handle, and the range of solutions we offer.
Port of Liverpool Terms & Conditions and Charges
Liverpool Marine information
At Peel Ports Group, our services don’t begin or end at the dockside when we offload or load your cargo. Helping you to get to us with the maximum ease and efficiency is just as important. That’s why we’re not simply committed to providing reliable, safe navigation for all users, we actually have a statutory duty to maintain and conserve the harbours.
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