• Initiative teaches young people about supply chains using an interactive game and class sessions.
  
• Peel Ports Group aims to visit local schools and colleges in the Liverpool City Region.
  
• The Maritime and Logistics Sector in the Liverpool City Region supports 34,000 jobs with a forecasted 28,000 new jobs available by 20301.
  
• Peel Ports Group have invested heavily into projects such as Liverpool2, set to create 5000 direct and indirect jobs in the region.
  

Peel Ports launched its Business on the Move Initiative today at Hugh Baird College’s Port Academy Liverpool building, to inspire and encourage young people to consider a career in the City Region’s growing logistics sector.

A number of school visits will be made by staff at Peel Ports who will involve children from ages nine to 19 in a unique board game called Business on the Move.

The aim of the interactive game is to teach young people about the end-to-end supply chain by challenging them to move goods from China to the UK via the Port of Liverpool, in the most cost and time efficient way via road, rail and water freight. It features some of the largest businesses in the UK such as B&M and Typhoo Tea.

Currently 34,000 jobs are supported by the maritime and logistics industry in the Liverpool City Region, this is set to grow to 62,000 by 2030, with new roles becoming available, driven by technology, growth and infrastructure investment1.

In response to this, Peel Ports Group has launched the Business on the Move Initiative, a collaboration involving some of the largest organisations in the North West.

Following the £400m investment into Liverpool2, a new deep-water container terminal at the Port of Liverpool, the City-Region is set to grow as an international logistics and transit hub for the UK and local skills and knowledge in the industry will be vital to its future success.

Understanding how goods move around the world and end up in our shops and factories is a valuable insight into the modern economy, and Business on the Move is a simple and relevant way of helping to achieve this.

Peel Ports Group has made significant investment in infrastructure and technology over the past five years in projects such as Liverpool2, which in itself is set to create 5,000 direct and indirect jobs.

These investments require staff in a wide array of roles including automation engineers, port operatives, and engineers in addition to office based roles.