UK transport cheers as Lower Thames Crossing gets green light
One of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects has been greenlit after the country’s Department for ...
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Fears that the UK is heading towards an era of sustained overcapacity in its major container ports may have been overcooked, according to a leading industry analyst.
Neil Davidson, senior analyst of ports and terminals at Drewry Maritime Research, told delegates at this week’s TOC Container Supply Chain conference that despite the continuing flat UK economy, which has stubbornly failed to recover from the 2008 recession, average major container port utilisation in 2012 was 75%, which represents a high figure for ...
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John
October 12, 2014 at 2:43 pmFirstly, Over 60% of the containers entering southern England ports are destined for the north of the country.
The under construction Liverpool 2 terminal can handle the largest of any container ship and is not dependent on tides. Liverpool will be the only container port on the west coast to accommodate these large ships. The widening of the Panama Canal will change trading patterns. The upgrade of the Liverpool rail network to cope with more freight. All these will contribute to increase Liverpool container traffic to levels of Felixstowe.
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John Burns
June 04, 2016 at 1:45 pmLiverpool2 is being deepened while under construction to take the world’s largest container ships.