{"id":567049,"date":"2025-11-13T06:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:27:24","slug":"specialist-lawyers-looking-at-cause-of-liverpool-ferry-terminal-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567049\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Specialist lawyers&#8217; looking at cause of Liverpool Ferry Terminal issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 12 November 2025 15:11\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/245097-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Manx Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            New terminal needs &#8216;adjustments&#8217; to fix berthing issues\n        <\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure minister says &#8216;specialist lawyers&#8217; are currently trying to establish how a problem with the new Liverpool Ferry Terminal was able to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, it was revealed the facility at Prince&#8217;s Half-Tide Dock needed to be &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/liverpool-ferry-terminal-to-be-upgraded-to-rectify-berthing-issues\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/liverpool-ferry-terminal-to-be-upgraded-to-rectify-berthing-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adjusted<\/a>&#8216; because mooring lines for the Manxman and Ben-my-Chree were clashing with a dolphin fender there.<\/p>\n<p>The terminal opened its doors in June last year and is estimated to have cost between \u00a370-75 million.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Haywood MHK says her initial priority is fixing the issue:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/work-to-improve-mooring-at-ferry-terminal-in-liverpool-scheduled-for-next-week\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.manxradio.com\/news\/isle-of-man-news\/work-to-improve-mooring-at-ferry-terminal-in-liverpool-scheduled-for-next-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Work to improve the mooring<\/a> is scheduled for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been delayed a number of times because the heavy-lifting crane barge that&#8217;s needed hasn&#8217;t been able to get there because of adverse weather.<\/p>\n<p>It means this weekend&#8217;s sailings for Liverpool will now be operating to and from Heysham instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 12 November 2025 15:11 Picture credit: Manx Radio New terminal needs &#8216;adjustments&#8217; to fix berthing issues The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,77,9458,4884,7910,179,28157,42452,269,12,6226,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-567049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fun","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-isle-of-man","14":"tag-liverpool","15":"tag-manx","16":"tag-manx-news","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-presenters","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115540974356566599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}