Lend Lease land construction contract for Liverpool 2

• Lend Lease named principle contractor for Port of Liverpool’s new £300 million container terminal

Peel Ports has today named international property and infrastructure group Lend Lease as principal contractor for Liverpool2, its new £300 million deep-water container terminal at the Port of Liverpool.

The terminal, which will bring some of the world’s largest container ships to the Mersey, will be open for business in 2015.

Located in the River Mersey, it will avoid vessel size restrictions of the current container terminal, which is located within a closed dock system accessed by locks. The new terminal will also accommodate two vessels of up to 13,500 TEU at a time.

As principal contractor, Lend Lease will be Peel Ports’ construction partner for the Liverpool2 development.

“The naming of the principal contractor is a vitally important move in the construction of Liverpool2, and we are confident that Lend Lease, with an impressive track record on major construction projects across the globe, is the right company for the job,” said Peel Ports Mersey managing director, Gary Hodgson.

“By any standard it is a significant development and a major investment.”

By naming the principal contractor today, we have further emphasised our commitment to the building of Liverpool2,” added Hodgson.

Liverpool2 is the key project in the Mersey Ports Master Plan, the 20-year vision for growth and future developments at the Port of Liverpool and on the Manchester Ship Canal – launched by Peel Ports last year.

Liverpool2 will connect directly to a number of port centric logistics hubs along the Manchester Ship Canal via barge - resulting in the development of the UK’s first “green logistics hub” which will reduce costs, congestion and carbon footprint for businesses located in the North West of England, serving the North of the UK.

The construction programme comprises of a new 854 meter quay wall, the in-filling of the newly created land-mass, the dredging of a new 16.5 meter deep berthing pocket adjacent to the quay wall, the installation of ship to shore quay cranes and modern cantilever rail mounted gantry cranes (CRMGs) and associated supporting infrastructure works.

The quay wall contractor will be named in the near future, and further packages of work will be advertised, including design and consultancy services, according to Peel Ports.