Liverpool Local Enterprise Partnership head of key sector growth explored the meaning of the SuperPort brand in Liverpool City Region and issued a passionate call to businesses to make the most of the opportunity it presents.
3. Why The Logistics Sector?
UK
• £61 billion pa
• 83,000 vat registered companies
• 1.3 million employees
NW
• £6.2 billion pa
• 10,000 vat registered companies
• 137,000 employees
Source: ONS – Transport, Distribution and Storage
4. Liverpool Region Logistics Sector
• Sector worth £2.6 billion
• 7% of City Region economic value
• In almost 2,700 vat registered companies
• Employing around 46,000 people
• 6 major property deals in last 2 years –
involving 2million sqft and over 2,000 jobs
18. What is SUPERPORT?
2. Port and Population Centric:
Centrally located in the largest, most
densely populated region of the UK outside
London – serving a population of 20 million
in just over 2 hours drive
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The UK’s Central Port Centric Location
Average HGV Access Times
Birmingham (Hams Hall) 2 hours
Glasgow 5 hrs 15
Leeds 1 hr 40
Manchester 50 mins
M4 Corridor / Slough 3 hrs 50
Nottingham 2 hrs 45
Central London 4 hrs 30
4.5 Hour HGV Households Population
Felixstowe 12.7m 30,793,600
Liverpool 14.1m 33,753,400
Southampton 15.0m 36,179,300
Source: East West Locations
21. What is SUPERPORT?
3. Over £1 billion investment in new logistics
infrastructure, facilities and capacity over
the next 3 years including:
Mersey Gateway: £600m new 6 lane toll bridge
over the River Mersey in Halton
3MG: a multi modal, strategic rail freight
interchange development up to 3.5msqft
International Trade Centre: based on Wirral Waters
Liverpool2: £350m deep water container facility &
5msqft of sites along Manchester Ship Canal
28. Liverpool2
• New £350m deepwater container facility
•Capacity for two 13,500 teu vessels to berth
at once (Current capacity 4,000 teus)
•Able to handle 95% of the worlds container
fleet - including all post panamax vessels
•Will double capacity and reduce reliance on
transhipment
•Completion 2015
•Transformational for Northern UK
36. SUPERPORT and Panama Canal
•Cascading - Larger Vessels
•Direct Services to Liverpool via Panama
•Reduced costs / Improved performance
•Markets: Latin America; South America;
China; West Coast USA and Canada
•40% of all UK trade with US via Liverpool –
great potential for markets via Panama Canal
37. What is SUPERPORT?
4. A Vision
An Ambition
An Opportunity
A Prioritised Delivery Programme
38. SUPERPORT Programmes
1. Support major SUPERPORT Projects
2. Champion Sustainable Port Access
3. Secure Suitable Sites and Premises
4. Skills
5. Develop Supply Chain Network
6. Promote SUPERPORT Logistics
7. Promote International Trade
39. SUPERPORT Programme
1. Support major SUPERPORT Projects
2. Champion Sustainable Port Access
3. Secure Suitable Sites and Premises
4. Skills
5. Develop Supply Chain Network
6. Promote SUPERPORT Logistics
7. Promote International Trade
40. Port Access - Road
• ABIL Study mapped
potential freight impacts
of port expansion
• Significant (150m) net
saving in road miles
overall
• Makes UK case for more
NW road investment at
pinch points
41. Port Access Activity
• Developing a bid for TEN-T European
Funding to support Port Access Study
• Study to consider all key elements of surface
based access to and from the Port – short
sea, canal, rail and road
• Active engagement of DfT, Highways Agency,
Sefton Council, LEP, Merseytravel etc
• Evidence to Transport Select Committee
42. SUPERPORT Priorities
1. Support major SUPERPORT Projects
2. Champion Sustainable Port Access
3. Secure Suitable Sites and Premises
4. Skills
5. Develop Supply Chain Network
6. Promote SUPERPORT Logistics
7. Promote International Trade
43. Sites & Premises Activity
• Presentation of Logistics Business Case to
property agents, LAs and developers
• Working with all of these to bring forward
sites for market readiness
• Developing funding streams – Growing
Places Fund, Chrysalis, RGF Gap Funding Bid
• Developing the demand evidence base
• Promotion to end users
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Business Growth Grant
• £10 million RGF approved to provide expansion
grants to businesses
• Minimum grant £50k and maximum £1m
• Fund will be fully operational in summer 2013
• Open to businesses creating and safeguarding
jobs from:
– St Helens
– Sefton
– Wirral
– Knowsley
– Halton
– Liverpool * (subject to further BIS approval)
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Business Growth Grant
Fund Information
• Grant Fund – Up to 25% assistance for SMEs
• Fund capital equipment costs for businesses with expansion
plans that will create (or safeguard) jobs
• Programme needs £5 of additional investment for £1 of grant
Accessing the Fund
• Fund is administered by the LEP with LA Partners
• Expressions of Interest now invited to enable businesses to
give an early indication of their projects & intentions to apply
• Full applications will be invited in Summer 2013
• Businesses should work with the LEP and Local Authority
partners to understand scheme criteria and the eligibility of
their project
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Chrysalis
• £30 million fund operating across Liverpool City
Region, excluding Halton
• Provision of repayable finance for property schemes
– new or refurbished commercial floorspace
(B1, B2, B8 uses)
• Objective to deliver economic benefits and job
creation opportunities
• Fund can support up to a maximum of 50% of eligible
costs
• Approved state aid notification – therefore a range of
flexibilities can be deployed to facilitate development
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Chrysalis
Accessing the Fund
• The LEP provides an advisory role to the Chrysalis fund
• Chrysalis is currently open for new applications
• The Fund is administered by the Igloo Consortium
• Further details and an online application system can be
found at http://www.chrysalisfund.co.uk
• For further information on the Fund or eligibility of
potential projects contact Iain Jenkinson
(iain.jenkinson@gva.co.uk) or Georgina Singleton
(Georgina.singleton@gva.co.uk)
49. We are on the cusp of a profound, seismic shift in the
way goods are moved in, out and around the UK.
The trends of increased imports of consumer goods
from low cost economies, increased road transport costs
and increased focus on more sustainable logistics for
retailers and manufacturers, will drive business towards
population centric multi modal logistics locations.
SUPERPORT is ideally placed to take advantage of these
trends.
SUPERPORT