Editing Merseyside (section)

=== Maritime ===
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| caption1          = [[Liverpool Cruise Terminal]], [[Pier Head]] and [[Mersey Ferry]] terminal
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| caption3          = ''[[Queen Mary 2]]'' with [[Isle of Man Steam Packet Company]] ferry [[HSC Manannan|HSC ''Manannan'']] at Pier Head
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| caption2          = [[Mersey Ferry]] {{MV|Royal Iris of the Mersey}}
| image4            = Stena Lagan at Twelve Quays, Birkenhead (1).jpg
| caption4          = [[Twelve Quays]] Ferry Terminal, [[Birkenhead]] for [[Stena Line]] {{MS|Stena Lagan}} services to [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]
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| caption6          = Routes operated by the [[Isle of Man Steam Packet Company]]
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[[Liverpool Cruise Terminal]] provides facilities for long-distance passenger cruises. [[Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines]] {{MS|Black Watch|1971|6}} and [[Cruise & Maritime Voyages]] {{MS|Magellan}} use the terminal to depart to [[Iceland]], [[France]], [[Spain]] and [[Norway]]. [[The Peel Group|Peel Ports]] have also planned a second cruise terminal as part of the [[Liverpool Waters]] project.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 March 2012 |title=BBC Liverpool: Liverpool cruise liner terminal opening set for May |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-17232567 |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=30 January 2012 |title=Liverpool Confidential: Second Mersey cruise terminal planned |url=http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/Second-Mersey-cruise-terminal-planned-Liverpool |url-status=dead |access-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912155859/http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/Second-Mersey-cruise-terminal-planned-Liverpool |archive-date=12 September 2012 }}</ref>

==== Ferries ====
[[File:Seacombe Ferry Terminal Entrance (geograph 5384500).jpg|thumb|Seacombe Ferry Terminal]]
Prince's Landing Stage on Liverpool's [[Pier Head]] serves [[Isle of Man Steam Packet Company]] summer service to the [[Isle of Man]] (and Mersey Ferries). The [[Twelve Quays]] ferry port in Birkenhead serves winter Isle of Man ferry service and [[Stena Line]] services to [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. Almost three quarters of a million people{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} travel these [[Irish Sea]] ferry services.<ref>{{cite news |title=Direct Ferries Ltd: How To Get To Liverpool Ferry Port |url=http://www.directferries.co.uk/liverpool.htm |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=February 2011 |title=parliament.uk: Written evidence from Blundellsands Sailing Club (MCA 53) |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmtran/948/948vw42.htm |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref>

The [[Mersey Ferry]] has operated since the 1200s, currently between [[Wirral Peninsula|Wirral]] and [[Liverpool City Centre]] at Seacombe, Woodside and Liverpool Pier Head. In 2009–2010 it had 684,000{{nbsp}}passengers using the service.<ref>{{cite news |date=2009–2010 |title=Merseytravel: Annual Statistical Monitor 2009/10 |url=http://www.letstravelwise.org/files/1965510687_MON10pdf.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419014128/http://www.letstravelwise.org/files/1965510687_MON10pdf.pdf |archive-date=19 April 2014 }}</ref>

==== Commercial ====
The [[Port of Liverpool]] handles most commercial shipping, but the Birkenhead Docks complex in [[Great Float]] on the [[Wirral peninsula]] still handles some freight.

The Port of Liverpool is a [[container port]] that handles over 33{{nbsp}}million{{nbsp}}tonnes of [[Cargo|freight cargo]] per year, making it the fourth busiest port in the United Kingdom {{as of|2022|lc=on}}.<ref name="port01">{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/port-and-domestic-waterborne-freight-statistics-port |title=Statistical data set PORT01 – UK ports and traffic|publisher=Department for Transport | access-date = 27 July 2024}}</ref>
It serves more than 100 global destinations including Africa, Australia, China, India, the [[Middle East]] and [[South America]]. Imports include [[Cereal|grain]] and [[animal feed]], [[Lumber|timber]], steel, coal, cocoa, crude oil, edible oils and liquid chemicals; there are exports of [[Scrap|scrap metal]] for recycling.<ref>{{cite news |year=2010 |title=Peel Ports: Port of Liverpool |url=http://www.peelports.co.uk/port-of-liverpool |url-status=dead |access-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413101031/http://www.peelports.co.uk/port-of-liverpool/ |archive-date=13 April 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |year=2010 |title=Port of Liverpool Introduction |url=http://www.shipcanal.co.uk/port-of-liverpool |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref>  A second container terminal, [[Liverpool2]] at [[Seaforth Dock|Seaforth]], can handle [[Panamax|Post-Panamax]] vessels and doubled the port's capacity when it opened in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 March 2012 |title=Liverpool Port Terminal Work to Begin Next Year |url=http://www.joc.com/portsterminals/liverpool-port-terminal-work-begin-next-year |access-date=9 May 2012}}</ref>