By LARRY NEILD Daily Post A VITAL pounds 7.6m project to create the first-ever direct link between Liverpool docks and the UK's main rail network, has moved a step closer.

THE Mersey Docks & Harbour Company (MDHC) replaced the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board after it had ceased trading. In 1858, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board took over the running of the Liverpool Docks, England, from the Liverpool Dock Trustees, which formed in 1780.

By Bill Gleeson PEEL Ports' pounds 370m plan to invest in its docks at the Port of Liverpool and along the Manchester Ship Canal is a good thing. It is the sort of private sector investment that the region badly needs.

By LARRY NEILD Daily Post PLANS for a sister roll-on, roll-off berth in Liverpool to Birkenhead's Twelve Quays and a huge expansion of Runcorn's port at Weston Point were outlined last night to a government minister.

By LARRY NEILD THE biggest development in the Port of Liverpool for almost 50 years was yesterday given the go-ahead by Transport Minister Gillian Merron. She approved a pounds 90m riverside terminal at Seaforth that will enable the Mersey to handle the world's new super-ships.