UK based Peel Ports Group has just released a video about the Liverpool2 terminal project. The new terminal at the Port of Liverpool is estimated to cost approximately £300 million $500 million.
Contractors Bam Nuttall and Van Oord have passed a major construction milestone in the project.
The two engineering companies completed the first phase of the infilling, using 1.43 million tonnes of sand and silt, deposited from dredged material.
In 2014, the piling process over nearly 12 hectares of land was started, which is due to be completed within the next few months. The work involves drilling from large jack-up rigs and inserting tubular piles to create a new 854m long quay wall. Furthermore, the area behind the wall has been dredged to bedrock to allow for virgin materials to be deposited.
The Willem van Oranje trailer suction hopper dredger started the infilling of Liverpool2 area, after its arrival in the river Mersey in February this year.
The TSHD vessel is operated by Dutch specialist Van Oord. It has a handling capacity of 10,000m3 (21000 tonnes).
Image by: Peter C Olsen
The Van Oord dredger took materials from a site 20 miles away from Liverpool2, with each dredging and discharge operation taking about 6.5 hours from beginning to end.
In the beginning of July, the dredger is expected to begin the second campaign of infilling, which will see a further 4m tonnes of dredged material being harvested from the Mersey river.
Other significant elements of the project to date include:
- installation underway of 261 anchor blocks 3metres below the current infilled level;
- connection of the anchor block to piles with steel bars, to straighten and tension the quay wall structure;
- vibro-compaction of the infill to settle it and drive out water;
- 220m extension to an existing sewerage outfall through the site, towed in a single piece from Norway;
- installation of drainage works directly behind quay wall;
- upfill from (+)6.5 metres to (+)10 metres to cover the tie bars and anchor blocks to the top level of the piles.
New biomass facility will boost handling
24 Jun 2015
Biomass boost: The Port of Liverpool will handle up to 3 million tonnes of wood pellets per year
A new £100m biomass terminal planned for the Port of Liverpool will see it handle up to three million tonnes of wood pellets a year as part of the decarbonisation of the nearby Drax power station, boosting handling at the port.
The wood pellets, which will be shipped to Liverpool from North America, are a by-product of the commercial forestry and saw-milling industry and will provide the power station with a new, sustainable low carbon fuel source.
Mark Whitworth, CEO of Peel Ports, said: “Creating a deep-water container terminal in the north of England is a vitally important component of the Northern Powerhouse and will help to re-balance the economy.”
In transitioning from coal to sustainable biomass Drax will reduce its CO2 footprint by some 12m tonnes per annum, the equivalent to removing 10% of the cars on the UK roads.
All of the wood pellets will be sent to Drax by rail from Liverpool to Selby ensuring there is no impact on the local road network.
The new biomass terminal, which includes a new rail loading facility and storage capacity for 100,000 tonnes, will be built by GRAHAM.
It’s all part of Peel Ports’ ambitious growth plans for the Port of Liverpool, with the company already investing £300m to create the UK’s most centrally located deep water container terminal, known as Liverpool2.
Liverpool2 will enable the port to handle the largest container ships in the global fleet while at the same time doubling the port’s container capacity by 1m teu.
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