A new US$12 million, 27,500 m2 fresh produce terminal and cool store, operated by Go-Associates, is to be built in the Port of Liverpool for imported fruit and vegetables.
The location of the facility will help to cut longer truck movements to the UK’s southern ports.
Liverpool Produce Terminal (LPT), located alongside the Royal Seaforth Container Terminal and the site of the port’s planned ₤100+ million Post Panamax River Container Terminal, will provide a cost effective all-water alternative to the 300 trucks arriving daily in the UK with fruit from Spain.
The quayside facility will be equipped with four individually controlled chambers with a temperature range of –5 deg. C to +14 deg. C, which can accommodate produce four pallets high.
The largest reefer vessels can be accommodated alongside the cool store, which can discharge a 4,000-pallet ship in 24 hours.
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