Liverpool’s Pier Head aims to become a base for cruise liners
Dec 16 2008
by David Bartlett, Liverpool Daily Post
TALKS are under way to secure “significant investment” for upgrading Liverpool’s Pier Head to become a base for cruise liners to start and finish their journeys, it emerged last night.
Liverpool City Council (LCC) and Peel Ports – which owns Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) – are negotiating for baggage handling facilities, Customs, or immigration services to be developed near the Cruise Liner Terminal.
Previous negotiations with MDHC, which acts as the harbour authority and commercial port authority, collapsed because the cost to the council and cruise operators would have been “unviable”.
“In October of this year, Peel Ports reopened negotiations with LCC in respect of operating turnaround facilities at the Cruise Liner Terminal,” a council briefing paper states.
“These negotiations are progressing well and are expected to lead to a significant level of investment in the creation of a new baggage handling facility close and a commercially acceptable proposal to deliver turnaround facilities.”
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