Mersey Docks and Harbor Company
The Mersey Docks and Harbor Company (MDHC), formerly the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board (MDHB), owns and manages the docks in the port of Liverpool , England . This includes both the operation of the closed northern docks, which extend from Prince's Dock to Seaforth Dock , as well as those which are located around the Great Float of the Wirral Peninsula on the west side of the river.
MDHC's parent company Peel Ports has other maritime facilities in the area, including the Cammell Laird shipyard , Tranmere Oil Terminal and the Manchester Ship Canal .
history
The Dock Committee of Liverpool City Council was the original port authority. In 1709 it was authorized to build the Old Dock , the first closed ship basin in Liverpool harbor, which at that time was the first commercially used dock port in the world . In 1750, the old port authority was replaced by the Liverpool Dock Trustees . In order to provide stones for the construction of the expanded dock system, the Liverpool Dock Trustees, and later the MDHB, operated large quarries in Creetown, Scotland , from 1830 onwards .
In 1858 the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board took over the operation of the docks. The reason the docks were sold to a public company can be traced back to pressure from parliamentarians, port traders and some competing port operators.
At one point the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board Railway was 166 km long , and it had many connections with other railways. One section ran along Dockstrasse. Only the Canada Dock Branch is used today.
In 1972 the committee was transformed into a company to raise new money for buildings and projects. Among other things, the construction of the new container dock in Seaforth was supported. Four lightships were maintained in the approach to the River Mersey by the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board until 1972.
The company operates a private lifeboat station which has been implicated in a number of incidents over the years.
management
The MDHC was accused of "macho management" by the Financial Times in the 1990s, which led to the dockworkers strike in Liverpool. On September 22, 2005, the MDHC was taken over by Peel Ports , which is part of Peel Holdings, which also has a minority stake in Liverpool John Lennon Airport .
Facilities
The Cammell Laird Dock is located in Birkenhead , on the Wirral Peninsula. It goes straight into the River Mersey .
The dock was built around the turn of the century as part of the expansion of the Cammell Laird shipyard by enclosing the Tranmere Pool.
The MDHC has owned the dock and the four remaining dry docks since the original Cammell Laird shipyard was closed in 1993. All of them were leased to the A&P Group and then to Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders , which renamed itself to Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd on November 17th, 2008 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Port of Liverpool (official map) (pdf) Peel Ports. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ^ Port of Liverpool & Manchester Ship Canal . Peel ports. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ↑ a b Mersey Docks & Harbor Board: the board is formed . Port Cities / E. Chambré Hardman Archives. Archived from the original on September 27, 2006. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ↑ a b Mersey Docks and Harbor Board collection . National Museums Liverpool. Archived from the original on February 3, 2009. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ↑ Trading Places: Old Dock History . In: National Museums Liverpool . Archived from the original on March 24, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ^ A b Robert Storrie: Embryo of a Port 1715 . Mike Royden's Local History Pages. Archived from the original on October 11, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ↑ Creetown, Scotland: The Kirkmabreck Quarries . Retrieved May 29, 2006.
- ^ TB Maund: Mersey Ferries , Volume 1. Transport Publishing Co. Ltd., November 1991, ISBN 0-86317-166-4 , pp. 52-53.
- ^ Neil Hodgson: Cammell Laird name returns on River Mersey . Liverpool echo. November 17, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
