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Mersey Maritime sets out future plans at summit meeting
Business leaders from Merseyside’s maritime sector gathered this month to hear sector representative organisation Mersey Maritime set out its plans for the future.
Over 100 people attended the two hour summit meeting at the Leverhulme Hotel in Port Sunlight on June 10th, in which Mersey Maritime highlighted key milestones from its first seven years, and presented a blueprint for moving forward.
Ian Higby, Chairman of Mersey Maritime and Managing Director of Atlantic Container Line, opened proceedings with a speech that set the mood for the evening:
“We are here tonight to celebrate the success that has come from working together as a maritime community”.
He highlighted the many achievements of the sector on Merseyside over the past seven years. These include over £150 million of inward investment into the sector during Mersey Maritime’s lifetime, the building of the new cruise terminal, the spectacular renaissance of the Cammell Laird shipyard and the development of the Manchester Ship Canal and 3MG.
Keynote speaker for the evening, Stephen Carr, Head of Business Development for Peel Ports Mersey, spoke about Peel’s plans for the Port of Liverpool and the Manchester Ship Canal.
The final presentation of the evening was given by Jim Teasdale, Chief Executive of Mersey Maritime Group.
In his speech, Mr Teasdale outlined his blueprint for the future of the sector on Merseyside, and of Mersey Maritime as the voice of the sector’s 1700 companies.
He said that Mersey Maritime would concentrate its efforts on meeting employer demand in five main areas: Information and Knowledge Sharing; Communications and News Updates; Networking; Providing Access to Funding and Skills Brokerage and Skills Delivery.
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