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The disappointing decision in full from Minister for Transport Paul Clark
THE Liverpool Cruise Terminal is owned and operated by Liverpool City Council. It receives port of call visits from major cruise lines. The construction of this terminal was funded by grant from the European Regional Development Fund and the North West Development Agency.
The original grant decision was made on the basis of the benefits to local tourism from port calls, normally lasting a day. It was assessed that there was unlikely to be any significant distortion to competition in the market for port of call cruise services resulting from the provision of grant. It was, however, judged at the time that changing the use of the terminal to permit turnaround cruises to operate from that location could raise competition issues in relation to other ports operating in this market. Accordingly, a condition of the funding was that change of use could only be permitted with the agreement of the Secretary of State.
