About Mersey Maritime

Mersey Maritime represents a Maritime 'cluster' of more than 1000 businesses, employing 26000 people with a turnover of £2.5 billion per annum. We exist to promote and develop excellence in all maritime related activities on Merseyside and to represent the interests of existing and new cluster members.

In this website you will find pages on our members and links to their own websites. You will also find engineering companies and freight forwarders; port operators and shipping lines; haulage companies and warehouse operators; logistics companies and ship repairers; and many more world class enterprises across the widest possible range of Maritime businesses. In all cases you will find excellence.

Mersey Maritime has been formed through the commitment of its private and public sector partners across Merseyside with the shared vision to develop a world class cluster of maritime businesses. We will:

  1. Grow tonnage, turnover and profitability
  2. Increase employment numbers
  3. Galvanise all 1000 companies into a forward looking entity with highly skilled, motivated and customer focused staff
  4. Communicate Mersey Maritime as modern growth business
  5. Make Mersey Maritime the destination for world class training facilities
  6. Integrate the communication with all local communities on key issues
  7. Become the champion of Mersey Maritime business on a lobbying platform
  8. Fulfil and enhance its environmental duty
  9. Build up the region as a centre of excellence for logistics
  10. Make the Mersey Maritime Cluster the first successful one of its kind in the UK