The Carrylift Group has won a Mersey Docks & Harbour Company contract to manage the entire materials handling equipment fleet at the Port of Liverpool.

The three-year contract covers management of 25 straddle carriers, five Liebherr ship-to-shore container cranes, three Liebherr harbour mobile cranes, quayside cranes, gantry cranes, plus other port equipment on the Mersey Docks estate.

The value of the contract was not revealed.

Carrylift had moved staff into existing port workshops and had 58 engineers and a management team on site to support the contract, according to Cranes Today.

Carrylift distributes Nissan forklift trucks, Rocla warehousing equipment and Mafi tractors, and has seven regional centres throughout England and Scotland.