The Northern Powerhouse is ship-shaped in Liverpool

Fascinating interview in The Daily Telegraph as Peel Ports chief executive Mark Whitworth defends the company’s £300m investment in the new L2 deepsea terminal in Liverpool. It was always a bold project, and is looking (increasingly so since the Brexit vote), but Mr Whitworth remains bullish: “When you start to look at the story around critical mass, the market is there, the population is there, the consumers are there. The distribution centres to feed the consumers are there. I think the story starts to become quite compelling. That’s why we have confidence.”