Liverpool Intermodal Freeport Terminal Phase 2
Port of Liverpool

Peel Ports Group is investing £15 million in Phase 2 of the development of Liverpool Intermodal Freeport Terminal (LIFT), a multi-modal logistics hub at the Port of Liverpool. Phase 2, which now has planning permission, comprises more than 37,000 square metres of additional modern warehousing, following the successful letting of all 56,000 square metres of the first stage. The project will consist of high bay, steel portal framed distribution units ranging from 6,500 square metres to more than 18,600 square metres, tailored to users needs all served by sea, rail, road and inland barge. The LIFT project is expanding the Port’s logistics capacity to over 370,000 square metres.

Two of the distribution units will be directly linked by rail, taking advantage of the planned increase in the Port of Liverpool’s rail traffic capacity, once work to enhance the links between the docks and the national rail network is completed. The Port of Liverpool now handles an average of 15 trains a day at its five railheads, moving containers, steel, coal, forest products and scrap metal for recycling. Under the Government’s Transport Innovation Fund (TIF), an abandoned stretch of track known as the Olive Mount Cord, will be re-opened to reduce the transit time for maritime traffic by avoiding the need for trains to shunt across Liverpool’s busy Edge Hill junction therefore enhancing rail capacity.

The development of LIFT Phase 2 is seen as a significant move forward within the secure environment of the Port of Liverpool and Liverpool Freeport, reflecting the demand from logistics companies to be part of a port community that offers a strategic location which maximises efficiency and minimises distribution costs. It also anticipates an acceleration of demand for logistics platforms adjacent to the Post Panamax Container Terminal, also proposed by Peel. Occupants of Phase 2 of the LIFT area will join major names in the logistics industry such as the RH Group, Christian Salvesen and Stanton Grove, who are among the users in the development’s first phase.