Liverpool City Region The beating heart of UK logistics GLASGOW BeLFASt LeeDS DUBLIN LIVERPOOL mANcheSter SheFFIeLD NOttINGhAm BIrmINGhAm CARBON EFFICIENT COST EFFECTIVE LOGISTICAL SENSE GRESHAM HOUSE plc GRESHAM HOUSE plc LIVERPOOL CITY REGION Contents SuperPOrt 1 SuperPOrt Developments 2 Sites and premises 3 Liverpool City region 4 Long Term Vision 5 Executive Summary As fuel costs continue to rise At the heart of this is peel port’s City region’s road connectivity. inexorably, the need to ensure that development of Liverpool2, a new Liverpool John Lennon Airport, the movement of goods from, to and deep water container facility, capable one of europe’s fastest growing around the uK and Ireland takes place of handling some of the world’s regional airports continues to as efficiently as possible has never largest container ships. This will allow improve and expand its service been greater. global services to be shipped direct to offer to passengers and business. the heart of major uK conurbations, Liverpool City region SuperPOrt Developers, landowners and local doubling the port’s container capacity. has a major part to play in helping to authorities are bringing forward Liverpool2 will operate alongside fulfil that need and already supports development sites located close to the Manchester Ship Canal, now in some of the uK’s leading retail and the port, motorways and rail freight common ownership and operation manufacturing operations including facilities as demand for warehousing for the first time, providing a green Shop Direct Group, QVC, Jaguar Land space and facilities ramps up. corridor of water borne access deep rover and unilever. inland to logistics sites and population Our ambition and our plan is to build, Over £1.8 billion is being invested centres. from our strong foundation, a retail in new infrastructure and facilities and logistics sector of sustainable expansion of the Mersey Multimodal in Liverpool City region, creating a global importance – servicing the Gateway (3MG) through Stobart, SuperPOrt of global significance, world’s leading retailing and prologis and Halton Council will equipped to deliver value and benefit logistics operators. provide 3.5m sq ft of warehousing to shippers, freight forwarders and connected directly by the West Coast retailers alike, by optimising their Main Line. Mersey Gateway Bridge logistics operations. It will do this will deliver a new 6 lane crossing by exploiting Liverpool’s unique of the river Mersey in Halton central port location for serving significantly improving the uK and Ireland. 4 1 Warehouse Sites and Premises Mersey Gateway Bridge West Coast Mainline Manchester Ship Canal PORT OF MANCHESTER LIVERPOOOOL DAILY CONNECTIONS TO BELFAST AND DUBLIN KNOWSLEY LIVERPOOL RIVER Liverpool John Lennon M Airport E 3MG Manchester RSE MANCHESTER International Airport Y SHSHIPIP CANAL WIRRAL SuperPort Key FeAtUreS • Cost and carbon efficient logistics Why Liverpool? location • Centrally situated for uK and Ireland Liverpool City region SuperPOrt For the first time in its 125 year is the most efficient port-centric history, the port of Liverpool and the • Same day deliveries to both Scotland logistics hub to service Northern Manchester Ship Canal are owned by and Southern uK uK and Ireland delivering significant one company and operated as a single • UK’s strongest export market competitive advantages to retailers and integrated service. manufacturers alike. • 50% of the uK container market Transporting goods efficiently and closer to Liverpool than South Its central position, with excellent cost effectively along this new ‘green’ connection to the national motorway corridor to the major distribution hubs • 17 million people within 2 hours and rail network, enables logistics around the North West, is increasingly operators to service both Scotland and appealing. It offers a cheaper, carbon- • Largest population centre in uK the South with same day delivery. friendly, congestion-free alternative to after London the motorway network. This position also allows ready access • Excellent connection to national rail to large centres of population – with Liverpool City region has developed and motorway network 17 million people living within a 2 hour expertise in the movement of goods with • New deepwater container facility journey time, making this the largest companies such as Stobart Group and enhancing global connectivity centre of population in the uK outside of Bibby Distribution based here. excellent London. multimodal facilities are available, • Up to 9 sailings a day to Ireland most notably at the Mersey Multimodal In May 2013 peel ports are developing • Ship Canal offering “Green Corridor” Gateway (3MG) in Halton and Knowsley Liverpool2; a £300 million project Intermodal rail Freight Terminal. • Wealth of excellent multimodal which will deliver a new deep water facilities and development sites in-river container terminal at the port of Additionally, there is a wealth of Liverpool. development sites across the City • £1.8 billion investment in new region that owners, developers and infrastructure underway This will allow cargo to be shipped the City region’s local authorities from all over the world directly into • Cammell Laird – largest heavy are making available for logistics Liverpool at the geographic heart of the fabrication, marine engineering and operations – many in outstanding uK. When it opens in 2015, Liverpool ship repair facility on the West Coast locations in close proximity to the port, will again regain its status as a major of the uK multimodal facilities and motorway international trading port, increasing junctions. • The SUPERPOrT Skills for Growth cargo traffic to Northern Britain, Agreement captures the current and enhancing business opportunities and future skills needs of SUPERPOrT bringing prosperity. through private and public sector engagement and communicates this 6 to education providers MajOr ClieNtS by virtue of the large population base installation and technical support of and the extensive training and support Irish Sea offshore wind farms Liverpool City region SuperPOrt is available through local colleges. • A centre for companies such as ABB, already home to some of the world’s Siemens, DONG energy, Maersk, leading shipping, retail, manufacturing In 2014 Liverpool Low Carbon Bibby, Jaguar Land rover, uTC and and logistics operations. & SUPERPORT uTC will open to unilever Maersk Line has made Liverpool its further enhance the specific training • Largest West Coast port complex Head Office for uK and Ireland and ACL requirements for the sector. alongside two international airports with direct shipping and air services to has its uK headquarters here. There is Workforce costs are highly competitive key european and global centres also a major presence of CMA CGM offering potential savings on more • Cammell Laird offers the largest and Stena Line. expensive locations with lower heavy fabrication, marine engineering skills availability. Current wage levels National and international retailers and maintenance base port facilities for warehouse staff and management are well represented. Shop Direct on the uK’s West Coast are typically 10% more expensive in Group, Home Bargains, Matalan, QVC • extensive supply chain of relevant Northampton and 20% more expensive and B&M are all based here, and there companies – centre of excellence for in Southampton. Source: east West are significant operations for Tesco, specialist marine related engineering Locations. Co-operative retail and Sainsbury’s • Highly skilled workforce - engineering amongst others. and manufacturing expertise, full Liverpool City region cORE array of shipyard skills The region is one of the uK’s leading – ceNtre for OffshOre • extensive local training - Integrated manufacturing areas with significant reNewable Engineering Marine engineering Campus including global operations for Jaguar Land rover, Liverpool John Moores university, unilever, NSG pilkington and many Liverpool City region is the leading Birkenhead uTC and the North West others providing a healthy centre for marine energy on the Maritime and engineering College export market. uK’s West Coast. It offers a globally North West Logistics operations thrive here, with connected port, world renowned • New dedicated regional Growth Fund Bibby Distribution, Stobart Group, potter marine fabrication facilities and a large to offer direct financial support to Logistics and Stena Line. engineering talent pool all of which are marine energy companies locating in immediately available. the Wirral area of the City region WOrkforce • £30 million local urban development Within close proximity to the Irish Sea fund for investment Liverpool City region has a very large round 3 offshore wind sites which • Government Low Carbon regulatory catchment population available to ensures reduced transport costs and pilot Area focused on reducing service the logistics industry. Staffing quick turnaround times: regulatory burdens thereby expediting availability and skill levels compare marine infrastructure projects, favourably with other logistics centres • rWe is already based in Wirral for the reducing delays and costs. 7 HGV DRIVE TIMES 5 hours 4 hours 3 hours 2 hours 1 hour Glasgow M8 Edinburgh Population Density Container services M74 to Dublin, Belfast and Greenock Newcastle Belfast M6 A1 Preston Bradford Liverpool Leeds M62 IRELAND John Lennon LIVERPOOL Airport Manchester Dublin Manchester Sheffield M56 International Airport M1 Stoke Nottingham