Liverpool to Hull - Worldwide Commerce Corridor – The Real Northern Powerhouse

This super corridor would create exponential growth in investment returns, employment and housing. It would not only connect major northern cities but also link up Liverpool’s Atlantic gateway to Hull and Teesside’s access to Europe and the Baltic trading routes as far afield as China.. This would be the equivalent to a European Panama canal.

Northern Gateways appeals to all parties and stakeholders as they strive to create the framework and explore synergies between a range of projects in the pipeline or under way Energy Region.

This Northern Gateways would be compatible with and supportive to the Northern Powerhouse; a transformantional project for the North; Posing both challenges and opportunities with business and job creation.

• Know how, employability, skills and jobs: With significant levels of unemployment and underemployment job creation is a real opportunity to be seized.
• Business networks and market access: Multi-tier supply chains dependent on SMEs characterise most business sectors and Northern Gateways would create a viable eco-system of SMEs as well as global players.
• Connectivity: Digital convergence across all sectors is creating whole new industrial sectors and Northern Gateways would be alive to the cross sector dynamic of the new rocket science.
• Resources: From finance to services and a business friendly environment, Northern Gateways will be a catalyst for entrepreneurship, business creation and growth.
• Energy: There is no single energy source and Northern Gateways seeks to focus an energy mix that responds to current and emerging demand.
• Infrastructure: Multi-modal capacity is a combination of investment in fresh capacity and timely upgrades. We have the ports and emerging global trade flows can drive significant increases in throughput IF capacity can be delivered to meet demand.

Dover handles 76% of European freight meaning plans for an over flow car park!! Yes,  a car park to handle 4,000 trucks will be needed to handle this bottleneck. Yet there are 2 potential Northern ‘Super Ports’ waiting to offer relief and direct access from the Atlantic to Europe and the Baltic states. Factor in The arctic areas and China you have now total world reach.

All of this would bring opportunity to and create what you are now been told as ‘The Northern Power House’.