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| New UK port | THE UK is planning to build a £400M port, set to be one of the busiest in the UK, at Salford near Manchester. The new port also means reopening the famous Manchester Ship Canal. Twenty-two years after the gates of the city's docks in Ordsall closed, a vast freight terminal is being planned on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal at Barton, Eccles, which could create at least 5,000 jobs. Two ships a day would berth at Barton Lock, each loaded with 200 containers. The new Port Salford would have new links to the motorway network and the Manchester to Liverpool rail line, as well as a new bridge over the Ship Canal. The scheme by Peel Holdings, owners of the Trafford Centre, would take at least three years of planning before construction work started - if it gets the go-ahead. At the moment, the only British ports deep enough to handle monster container ships from the Far East, with up to 6,000 containers on board, are Felixstowe, Southampton and Thames Haven in London. Peel want smaller vessels to carry cargo unloaded at Southampton to the Ship Canal at Liverpool and then on to Barton for distribution. Ships would also take goods from Barton back along the canal and then north to Peel's existing port on the Clyde. Port Salford would handle 300,000 containers a year, with 50,000 arriving by ship. | 08/08/09 11:33 | |
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