Morgan Sindall Wins £24 Million Port of Southampton Contract

Construction and infrastructure company Morgan Sindall has been appointed to two contracts worth a combined total of £24 million to further extend car storage and handling facilities at the Port of Southampton.

Southampton is the UK’s principle automotive port and has purpose-built facilities dedicated to handling this trade. Port owner Associated British Ports (ABP) has commissioned the construction of two new multi-deck car storage facilities to enable the port to handle greater numbers of cars, which are shipped to meet overseas demand.

Morgan Sindall’s appointment is a key element in ABP’s £50 million investment to transform and expand vehicle handling facilities at Southampton.

The scheme at Southampton’s Eastern and Western Docks will see the Morgan Sindall project team construct two multi-level storage facilities, Deck 6 and Deck 7, which will provide a combined total of 8,669 additional car parking spaces for the port.

Deck 6 is a 2.5 acre facility over five levels which will provide car parking spaces for 3,251 vehicles. While Deck 7, the largest car storage facility on the port, is a 3.98 acre facility, which will be capable of housing 5,418 vehicles over five levels.

Morgan Sindall was previously appointed to deliver the £8.3 million extension of the port, a project which the company successfully delivered in 2015.