Briggs Equipment UK has proposed a new partnership with Peel Ports.

Peel Ports is partnering with Briggs Equipment UK Ltd to maintain its plant and equipment at the Port of Liverpool.

Briggs will maintain the port's equipment, including its ship-to-shore container cranes, straddle cranes, quayside cranes, harbour mobile cranes and other mobile equipment. It will focus on maximising equipment uptime by targeting "greater than 98%" equipment availability, and through predictive/preventative maintenance programs.

Both parties envision enhancing the port's engineering maintenance function to a world-class standard using skilled engineers, modern work methods and optimising tooling and diagnostics.

Port of Liverpool engineering manager Brad Crumbleholme says the port had undergone major changes recently, with engineering being one of them.

"A huge amount of time and effort has been put into getting us to this point and we can now look forward to implementing the planned improvements needed to take the Port of Liverpool operations to the next level," Crumbleholme explains.

Peel Ports is one of the UK's largest port operators owning Liverpool, Heysham, Clyde and Medway Ports as well as the Manchester Ship Canal and The Trafford Centre.