News / Integrated 'end-to-end' container distribution service a first for port of Liverpool

Port of Liverpool owner Peel Ports is set to launch a container rail service to offer shippers integrated quayside-to-inland destination distribution.

Peel told attendees at last week’s London International Shipping Week it was in “advanced contract discussions with both a rail provider and shippers, with the aim of running the first services before the end of 2017”.

It would be a first for the UK’s north-west container gateway, which has spent the past few years touting itself as a port-centric alternative to the ...