Delivery · Liverpool
Our partner couriers in Liverpool collect your goods from your warehouse, your central kitchen or your wholesaler, then hand them over to your customers, in Liverpool itself as well as in Birkenhead, Wallasey, St Helens or Halton.
Liverpool has no charging clean air zone. What matters for a delivery here is the traffic in the centre: the council issues no permit to deliver into the pedestrian zone, part of Lime Street is open only to buses, taxis and vehicles delivering there, and two toll tunnels run under the Mersey. From the moment you book, we fit each handover into the delivery hours of the street it goes to, and if we cannot keep to it, we tell you there and then.
Liverpool’s rules
The City Council has moved away from a charging Clean Air Zone, and the government’s official list names none for the city. No vehicle is charged for its emissions: we choose it on your volume and your addresses.
This rule applies day and night on the stretch of Lime Street that starts at London Road, and the council enforces it by camera. A contravention costs £70, reduced to £35 if the penalty is paid within 21 days. Our routes use it only to deliver to an address on it.
The access permit the council issues for the pedestrian zone is for works vehicles only: it is not issued for a delivery. When your customer has a shop there, we fit their handover into the zone’s delivery hours, and we tell you when you book if we cannot deliver within them.
Two toll tunnels link Liverpool to Wirral: Queensway, to Birkenhead, and Kingsway, to Wallasey. We build that crossing into the round: your Liverpool customers and your Wirral ones can be delivered by the same vehicle, and the time we give you for each handover includes the trip under the river.
Your customers — restaurants, caterers, shops and supermarkets — want their deliveries before they open. So we collect at night or before dawn, from your central kitchen or your wholesaler, for example at the council’s wholesale market on Electric Avenue, open from 4am Monday to Saturday. The round then delivers to each customer before they open to the public.
Local rules checked in October 2026.
Liverpool and the City Region
Liverpool has no Clean Air Zone, so we choose the vehicle for your volume, with no emissions standard to meet. The difficulty lies elsewhere. In the centre, our partner couriers work around a pedestrian zone where the council issues no permit to deliver, around Lime Street, which from London Road is open only to buses, taxis and vehicles delivering to an address on the street, around camera-enforced bus lanes and around parking charges from 7am to 11pm. Beyond the centre, the Mersey cuts the City Region in two, and the courier crosses it by Queensway, by Kingsway or, further upriver, by the Mersey Gateway. So in Liverpool, a delivery succeeds or fails on the arrival time and the route, and that is what we plan.
We reserve a vehicle for your job. It loads at your site and goes straight to your recipients, with no depot or sorting centre in between. Most of the time you have several customers: we chain their addresses into a round whose order follows the access windows in the centre and the tunnel crossings. That is how our same-day delivery works, from a 5 m³ van to a truck of more than 20 m³.
Refrigerated transport makes up most of our work, chilled as well as frozen. In Liverpool, the wholesalers at the Electric Avenue wholesale market trade from 4am, and central kitchens finish their production during the night. Our night deliveries link those sites to restaurants, shops and supermarkets before they open to the public. If no one is there yet to take delivery, the courier can let themselves in with the codes or keys you entrust to us.
A recipient who is out, a closed street, a slow tunnel: your teams do not have to call the courier and then the customer to find out where the order is. The time spent following up each delivery is the real cost of logistics, and it is the time we give back to you. Our team follows your deliveries every day, from 6am to 10pm.
Whether you hold stock in Knowsley or St Helens to supply the centre, or ship from Liverpool to another region, we run either round, since we deliver everywhere in the United Kingdom.
What we do in Liverpool
Same-day delivery has its page because we deliver to each customer in the centre at the hours their street is open to deliveries; refrigerated transport too, because we load its rounds at night at wholesalers and central kitchens. All our other services are available in Liverpool, on the same terms as everywhere we deliver.
We collect and deliver within the day, from a van to a truck of more than 20 m³, across the six council areas and on both banks of the Mersey.
See the serviceWe collect your chilled and frozen products during the night and deliver them to your restaurants, shops and supermarkets before they open to the public.
See the serviceFrequently asked questions
Yes. Wirral is one of the six council areas we cover, with Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helens and Halton. Our partner couriers get there through the Queensway or Kingsway tunnel, and our planning algorithms fit that crossing into the order of the round.
No. Liverpool has no Clean Air Zone: the City Council has ruled out the charging option and the government’s official list names none for the city. No vehicle is charged for its emissions.
Yes, when the street is open to deliveries. The access permit the council issues for that zone is for works vehicles only: it is not issued for a delivery. We set the time of your handover when you book, and we tell you then if we cannot keep to it.
Yes. Halton is one of the six council areas we cover, and there the courier crosses the Mersey by the Mersey Gateway or the Silver Jubilee Bridge, two toll bridges. We build that crossing into the round: an order for each bank can leave in the same vehicle, and the handover time we give you includes it.
No. Our partner couriers avoid them, and the time we give you allows for the detour. The council charges a £70 penalty for driving in a bus lane, reduced to £35 within 21 days, and when the sign shows no hours, the lane is reserved for buses 24 hours a day.
Become a Shippr partner courier and choose jobs starting from or going to Liverpool, Wirral or the four other council areas of the City Region.
Tell us which side of the Mersey your customers are on, which of them have a shop in the centre and when each one takes deliveries. We will come back with a proposed vehicle, the order of the stops and a time for each handover, tunnels and pedestrian zone included.