Delays to the Liverpool ferry terminal project are likely to have a ’significant cost impact’, Tynwald was told.
Construction of the new terminal at Prince’s Half-Tide Dock has been delayed by the pandemic, Infrastructure Minister Tim Baker confirmed during the Budget debate.
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Work on the £38m project began in January last year and was due to be completed this summer.
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A total of £19.9m is allocated to the scheme in the Budget Pink Book - although that is marked with an asterisk as ’subject to review’.
Mr Baker said: ’I can quite clearly say that this project unsurprisingly has been significantly affected by Covid.’
He said while the UK construction sector has carried on working in during the pandemic, productivity has been hit as a result of social distancing on site.
’Figures of 35% to 40% productivity impact are common across the UK construction sector. Our ferry terminal is not immune from that,’ he said.
’It is likely that there is going to be a significant cost impact from that.
’We can’t incur these delays and not have a financial impact,’ he said.