{"id":204582,"date":"2025-04-23T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcargonews.com\/?p=75157"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:44:45","slug":"peel-ports-heysham-england-gets-multi-million-pound-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=204582","title":{"rendered":"Peel Ports Heysham England gets multi million pound investment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peel Ports Group, the second largest port operator in the UK, is investing \u00a310m (US$13.5m) in Heysham Port, on the Irish Sea coast, north of Liverpool. The operator says the project will further increase capacity and efficiency at the port.<\/strong>
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Heysham is a principal trade link between Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. The port was recently among those terminals that stepped in when Holyhead was compromised by storm damage at the turn of the year (see feature reporting in the April print issue of WorldCargo News).<\/p>\n

The Heysham investment package is aimed at the port\u2019s Ro-Ro operations. Peel Ports say the project will include reconfiguring the port\u2019s trailer park, and a new multi-lane \u201csmart gate\u201d operating system. The group also say a new state-of-the-art terminal operating system will be installed. Peel has not indicated the TOS chosen for the job.<\/p>\n

Benefits for landside hauliers<\/h2>\n

According to the operators, the investment will benefit all operators at Heysham Port, with Isle of Man Steam Packet, CLdN and Stena Line all in line for increased capacity. Stena has already announced that it will deploy two of their new-build \u2018NewMax\u2019 hybrid ferries at the port, which will boost their freight capacity by 40%. The first Chinese-built ships are due to enter service in Autumn this year.<\/p>\n

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Location of Peel Ports Heysham (Peel Ports graphic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe introduction of a new gate operating system will lead to a better experience for hauliers by improving reliability, reducing congestion, as well as creating additional space at the facility,\u201d said Peel Ports. \u201cThe new terminal operating system will make it easier for arriving hauliers to identify trailers at the site, improving safety at the port in the process.\u201d The works are due to begin in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Growth in the unaccompanied freight<\/h2>\n

\u201cThis investment is hugely positive news for Heysham Port and the local community,\u201d said Phil Hall, Mersey Port Director at Peel Ports Group, who also operate Irish Sea ports at Liverpool and Dublin. \u201cWe believe this work will future-proof our operations here for decades to come, as well as create growth opportunities for the facility in the process.\u201d The additional capacity could easily be absorbed if disruption like the storm that affected Holyhead were to be repeated.<\/p>\n

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The RoRo apron is to be reconfigured at Heysham (Peel Ports)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stena Line, who operate between Heysham and Belfast in Northern Ireland, already intends to take advantage of the package<\/a>. Paul Grant, their Regional Trade Director, says they have seen sustained growth in the unaccompanied freight market on their route. \u201cWe expect this trend to continue as we add further capacity. With the first of our new hybrid ships due to begin on the route later this year, the improved efficiency and extra space at the terminal will help facilitate the additional traffic and ensure a reliable service for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wide cargo range, but RoRo remains prime<\/h2>\n

Although Heysham is best known by truckers involved in trailer and containerised Anglo-Irish trade, the port also promotes itself as a project cargo facility for offshore wind, gas and energy. Agribulks, drybulks and automotive cargo are also handled.\u00a0Although originally built by the nineteenth-century Midland Railway Company, Heysham Port does not handle any cargo by rail freight at present. The port does, however, have a passenger station, and there is adjacent rail infrastructure which serves the neighbouring two nuclear power stations.<\/p>\n

RoRo operations will continue to underwrite port operations. \u201cWe were extremely pleased to hear about this investment,\u201d said Robbie Niblock, Head of Commercial, CLdN RoRo Ltd. His counterpart at Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, Brian Thomson, said it was a significant step forward for the port, which will help his company continue to grow their operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peel Ports Group, the second largest port operator in the UK, is investing \u00a310m (US$13.5m) in Heysham Port, on the Irish Sea coast, north of Liverpool. The operator says the project will further increase capacity and efficiency at the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":75161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12329,6673,1869,2780,12745,12339,12327,16434,13987],"tags":[12159],"class_list":["post-204582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cldn","category-heysham","category-ireland","category-isle-of-man","category-peel-ports-group","category-ports-terminals","category-ro-ro-shipping","category-stena-line","category-tos","tag-world-cargo-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204660,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204582\/revisions\/204660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}