The port of Liverpool is building a fresh produce terminal that it claims will offer an alternative to the 300 trucks arriving in the UK with fruit from Spain every day.
The US$11.7 million Liverpool Produce Terminal (LPT) will offer customers the chance to import directly by sea from Spain to a consumer market of 30 million people. This would reduce the amount of road miles used to transport the produce.
The 8,400 sq m LPT will be built alongside the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal and the site of the port's planned $197 million post-panamax River Container Terminal.
LPT will be operated by Go-Associates, consisting of Lewis Clements, who launched the LPT concept, and logistics operator Cold Move.