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General Manager, Manchester Ship Canal, appointed

For Immediate Release - 03 October, 2006

Dean Hammond, Operations Manager of Chatham Docks on the River Medway in South East England, has moved north to become General Manager of the Manchester Ship Canal under Peel Ports' strategy of merging the 36 mile long waterway with the Port of Liverpool.

The combination of the two one-time competitors under the single banner of Mersey Ports creates a single seaway stretching from the Irish Sea to the heart of the North West, the UK's richest cargo generating region outside London.

Mersey Ports Managing Director Budha Majumdar described Mr Hammond's appointment as a key element in a strategy to maximise the potential of combining the North West's major port with the unique facility of the Ship Canal, to form a vital artery for the region and the rest of the UK.

"Mersey Ports forms an important commercial route for the region and the country. It unites two of Britain's strategic centres in the city regions of Manchester and Liverpool, and offers comprehensive facilities for every form of waterborne international freight," said Mr Majumdar. "The General Manager of the Manchester Ship Canal will play an important role in the implementation of this exciting strategy."

Mr Hammond, a 44 year old graduate in Maritime Studies, has had wide experience in the ports industry, first with Associated British Ports and from 1989 with Medway Ports. He held various operational management positions on the Medway before his appointment as Operations Manager at Chatham Docks in 2002.

The Medway ports of Sheerness and Chatham were part of the Mersey Docks Group which was acquired by Peel Ports in September 2005, to form the second largest ports group in the UK with operations in Scotland, the North West and South East of England.

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