When the Liverpool2 deep water container terminal opened in November 2016, it changed what was possible for anyone shipping goods out of the North West. Ten years on, it is the reason a family moving from Warrington to Wellington can have their belongings loaded into a container outside their front door and onto a deep-sea vessel without that container ever leaving Merseyside.
For us, that is not a piece of industry trivia. It is the single biggest practical advantage we can offer families and businesses moving overseas from this part of the country.
Why the port on your doorstep matters
Most international removals from the UK route through the southern container ports. For a household in Liverpool, Preston or Blackpool, that means a container spending a day or more on the motorway network before it even reaches the water – several hundred road miles, an extra set of handling stages, and a cost that lands on your quotation.
Shipping through Liverpool means your container is packed at your home, driven a short distance to the dock, and loaded. Fewer miles, fewer handovers, fewer opportunities for something to go wrong, and a noticeably smaller carbon footprint for the move. It also means that if a question comes up while your shipment is still in the country, we are twenty minutes away from it rather than two hundred miles.
What Liverpool2 actually is
Peel Ports invested £400 million in the terminal, which opened in November 2016. It has an 854-metre quay wall, eight megamax ship-to-shore cranes and twenty-two cantilever rail-mounted gantry cranes, and it can work two 380-metre vessels at the same time – ships carrying up to 13,500 containers apiece. Annual capacity runs to a million containers.
In plain terms: the largest vessels serving the transatlantic and Far East routes now call at Liverpool directly. Before 2016 they did not, and North West shipments had to travel south to meet them.
A decade of shipping through it
We have been routing international removals through the Port of Liverpool since Liverpool2 opened, sending household and commercial shipments to Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, South Africa, the UAE and the USA. That is not a plan or an intention – it is a decade of consignments that have left Merseyside and arrived where they were meant to.
You can read what those customers made of the experience on our testimonials page.
Over 50 years’ experience
Established in 1972 as a family run business, Britannia Fleet Liverpool has more than fifty years of experience moving families across the North West and around the world, including Liverpool, Preston, Southport, Warrington and Blackpool.
A tailored service
Every move is different and presents its own set of challenges, which is why we offer a range of shipping options. Most international shipments travel in steel shipping containers, which can be packed outside your home before being moved to the docks. We also handle part load shipping, baggage, crated LCL and vehicle shipping, and every international removal is assigned a dedicated coordinator who stays with your move from survey to delivery.
Can we help you?
Contact us today for a free, no obligation quotation and we will talk you through exactly how your shipment would travel. Email us, call us on 0151 482 0432 or complete our contact form.
