Editing Merseyside (section)

==== 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>