Plans have been revealed to expand Scotland's deepest container terminal.

The Greenock Ocean Terminal is set to double the number of containers it handles over the next five years due to the opening of Peel Ports' £400 million 'sister' terminal; Liverpool2.

Future plans include extending the quayside by 150 metres to support larger vessels coming into Greenock.


Andrew Hemphill, Port Director, Peel Ports' Clydeport, said: "The opening of Liverpool2 has transformed the playing field for us, bringing deep-sea connections much closer to Scotland and we are now in a unique position thanks to our Irish Sea Hubs. Mega ocean container ships can now call directly into Liverpool, which acts as a feeder hub to us in Greenock, Ireland and Manchester, allowing closer import and export routes to market.

"It is a more commercially viable, sustainable way to move goods around by sea. Our connections will take traffic off of Britain's already busy motorways and offer a cheaper more environmentally responsible method of transportation."

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