In the longer term, the project, named The Northern Gateway, will involve dredging a channel 14.5m deep a mile out to sea, to allow 300m long deep sea container vessels to dock at a new quayside, opening the North East up to new markets in the far east.

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We're now standing at Seaforth dock and we're watching a container ship which is manoeuvring to leave Liverpool and probably sailing to Zeebrugge or Le Havre.

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The West Coast ports are clogged, so Moorman thinks more container ships carrying Asian goods bound for the Midwest and East will dock east of the Mississippi.

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"Failure to provide facilities for the new container ships would mean the world's most efficient ships could not dock in the UK, driving up the cost of imports and making UK exports less competitive, " said David Gledhill, chief executive of Hutchison Ports UK, which owns the port.

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For nearly two weeks, hundreds of the city's dock workers have been on strike, crippling the world's third-busiest container port.

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