Cruise Liner Facility
_tcm81-57456.jpg "The proposed Cruise Liner Pier at Liverpool's Pier Head")
The big ships are coming back to the Mersey and they will be regular visitors.
A cruise liner facility - able to accommodate the world's biggest liners - was built at Princes Dock in a £19m scheme backed by the City Council, the Northwest Development Agency, Mersey Waterfront Regional Park, City Focus, Objective One, the Mersey Partnership and Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.
The project comprises a number of components:
- A 250 metre extension of the existing Pier Head landing stage to provide berthing capacity of 350 metres
- Link-span bridge to provide access for vehicles
- Car marshalling area at St. Nicholas Place to provide revised vehicle access to the landing stage across the Pier Head, including access to Irish sea sailings
- A culvert below the car marshalling area to accommodate section of Leeds/Liverpool canal link.
Work commenced in April 2006 with the first liners arriving in September 2007 as soon as it was completed. The facility will be officially opened by the HRH the Duke of Kent on 21st September 2007.
The completion of the cruise liner terminal will not only have a beneficial impact on the city's image, but will also attract an increasing flow of tourists to the region.
Map showing project location
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