Fresh produce terminal at the Port of Liverpool to be build by October
The facility is being built on the quayside at Royal Seaforth Dock and is due for completion in October, enabling the transfer of thousands of tonnes of fruit and vegetables from road to ship.
Go-Associates, the firm behind the development, is initially targeting the Spanish fresh produce season, offering a cost effective all-water alternative to the 300 trucks trundling in to Britain from the Continent every day with fruit from Spain.
Operations director Andy Rickard said: “Most of this major trade is moved by road on trucks carrying just 26 pallets each from the main growing areas of Spain.
“The situation cries out for high volume direct delivery by sea. Liverpool Produce Terminal will offer a state-of-the-art fresh produce terminal capable of discharging a 5,000 pallet ship in 24 hours and ideally located to reach any part of this vast market of 30m people within a truck driver’s tachograph driving day.”
The 90,000 sq ft cool store located alongside the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal and the site of the Port of Liverpool’s planned £100m plus Post Panamax River Container Terminal, will be operated around the clock, employing as many as 100 permanent and supplemental staff.
The terminal is expected to be operational this autumn.
A FIRM that supplies 3D images and animations for architects, developers and interior designers is defying the property market downturn to report strong half year results.
Liverpool-based Evolve has recorded sales of £170,000 since January thanks to a string of public and private sector development projects.
The figure is 13% higher than its own forecast and represents a year-on-year leap of 283%.
Recent activity includes working with the Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust to re-design the proposed new John Lennon Children’s Health Foundation, plus commercial schemes for Forward Point in Widnes and Atlantic House in Liverpool.
Go-Associates, the firm behind the development, is initially targeting the Spanish fresh produce season, offering a cost effective all-water alternative to the 300 trucks trundling in to Britain from the Continent every day with fruit from Spain.
Operations director Andy Rickard said: “Most of this major trade is moved by road on trucks carrying just 26 pallets each from the main growing areas of Spain.
“The situation cries out for high volume direct delivery by sea. Liverpool Produce Terminal will offer a state-of-the-art fresh produce terminal capable of discharging a 5,000 pallet ship in 24 hours and ideally located to reach any part of this vast market of 30m people within a truck driver’s tachograph driving day.”
The 90,000 sq ft cool store located alongside the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal and the site of the Port of Liverpool’s planned £100m plus Post Panamax River Container Terminal, will be operated around the clock, employing as many as 100 permanent and supplemental staff.
The terminal is expected to be operational this autumn.
A FIRM that supplies 3D images and animations for architects, developers and interior designers is defying the property market downturn to report strong half year results.
Liverpool-based Evolve has recorded sales of £170,000 since January thanks to a string of public and private sector development projects.
The figure is 13% higher than its own forecast and represents a year-on-year leap of 283%.
Recent activity includes working with the Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust to re-design the proposed new John Lennon Children’s Health Foundation, plus commercial schemes for Forward Point in Widnes and Atlantic House in Liverpool.