£4.3 million Gladstone Lock outage work follows two years of planning
The Port of Liverpool has completed the second and final phase of its £4.3 million lock system refurbishment.
The engineering operation, over 24 months in the planning, saw the West Inner Gate at the Port’s Gladstone Lock replaced.
The work saw the giant West Inner Gate, 16 meters in height and weighing 400 tonnes, removed and replaced with a fully refurbished gate.
“The completion of these works has provided an even more reliable lock system for our customers, reducing maintenance costs and improving access for our engineering personnel,” said David Huck, Peel Ports Mersey’s Head of Port Operations.
“These key assets are essential to the smooth running of the Port and we envisage that these upgrades should ensure the gates are functional for many years to come.”
This latest operation at Gladstone Lock takes overall investment in this area of Liverpool’s infrastructure to £20 million.
The port has also announced that works carried out last year to stabilize the Outer West Ram Pit at the Gladstone Lock River Entrance has won the North West Structural Engineering Small Project Award - with the highest score in all the categories.
The award will be presented at the Annual Structural Engineering Awards in September, held in the Hilton in Manchester.
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