Port of Liverpool’s container terminal construction moves forward

Engineering consultancy for maritime industries, BMT, has completed a series of studies for the Port of Liverpool’s new Seaforth ‘Liverpool2’ (L2) Container Terminal Construction, which will provide capability for a further half a million containers, taking its total annual capacity to approximately two million TEUs. BMT subsidiary companies, BMT ARGOSS and BMT Isis, were commissioned by Peel Ports to carry out a number of specialist studies to identify and assess the associated impacts of introducing larger vessels of up to 13,500 TEU to the proposed L2 development. This included analysis of the associated traffic and safety management issues, as well as the operability of the new terminal and to provide a conceptual design of the required mooring system. Manoeuvring simulations and studies into the wave and water level conditions were also carried out. Work began in September on the £300m port project that will allow larger ships to dock in Merseyside and will open in 2015.