Waterways Freight

Waterways Freight

Inland Waterways Freight Group Raising awareness of the opportunities of inland waterways for freight transport - the ‘environmentally friendly’ way

Keeping Our Waterways Alive!

Significance Of Domestic Waterborne Freight In 2008 inland waterways freight amounted to 51.9 million tonnes with 3.7 million (up from 3.4 million in 2005) of barge traffic and 48.2 million by seagoing ships penetrating the waterways inland from the Smooth Water Limit. Waterborne freight plays a more significant role in domestic freight transport than many, public and politicians, think.

Pipeline Pipeline Water 7% 4% Water 5% 20% Rail Pipeline Pipeline 5% Water Rail Water Rail Rail Road 8% Road Road Road 83% 67% Goods Lifted (tonnes)

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Key Freight Waterways Stomaway

Aberdeen

Cromarty Firth

Lochaline

Inverness Dundee

Glensanda

SCOTLAND WEST COAST

It creates less greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.

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Lochaline

1.3

48.1

1.7

Troon

SCOTLAND WEST COAST

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Stranraer

Cairnryan Principal Port Boundary of Port Group Maritime Waterway Non-Maritime Waterway

Dundee

Inverkeithing

Ayr Cairnryan

Forth

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Clyde

Stranraer

Heysham Workingt Fleetwood

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Llandulas

LANCS AND Mostyn 4 CUMBRIA Llandulas

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Primary energy use in freight transport: (Litres of diesel per tonne-km)

CO2 emission by transport mode: (Grams per tonne-km)

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Troon Workington Ayr

LANCS AND CUMBRIA

Principal Port Boundary of Port Group Holyhead Maritime Waterway Non-Maritime Waterway

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Abe

Inverkeithing Glensanda Forth Clyde 6

Mounting concern for the environment, global and local, means reducing carbon footprints.

Water transport uses less fuel.

Inverness

Stomaway

Goods moved (tonne-kms)

But It Should Be More Important...

SCOT EAST C Cromarty Firth

WEST AND Holyhead NORTH WALES

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Fle

Live

Mostyn 3 4

Fishguard

Milford Haven

Swansea WEST AND Neath NORTH WALES Port Talbot

Fishguard BRISTOL CHANNEL

Newport Cardiff

Barry

Sha Bristo

Swansea

Milford Haven

Neath Newpor Cardiff Poole

Port Talbot

BRISTOL Plymouth ParCHANNEL

It is able to ease road congestion in urban and rural areas.

Barry Teignmouth

Fowey Falmouth Par

Plymouth

Teignmouth

Fowey

One self-propelled barge with 500 tonnes:

Falmouth

On a number of these waterways capacit be increased at relatively modest cost.

OR 25 lorries each with 20 tonnes

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Wine imported in containers is moved rom Liverpool Docks to Tesco’s Irlam bottling plant by barge which can be used or other goods.

Humber Barges Fusedale-H moving aggregates from Besthorpe, Trent, to Whitwood for Leeds - both terminals constructed with assistance from Freight Facilities Grants.

TLAND COAST

Major Waterways 1. River Thames 2. River Medway 3. River Severn 4. River Mersey Major Waterways 5. Manchester Ship Canal 1. River Thames 6. River Clyde 2. River Medway 7. River Forth 3. River Severn 8. River Humber 4. River Mersey 9. River Ouse 5. Manchester Ship Canal 10. Aire and Calder Navigation 6. River Clyde 11. River Trent River Forth 12. River 7.

Orwell 8. River Humber 9. River Ouse 10. Aire and Calder Navigation 11. River Trent 12. River Orwell

Peterhead SCOTLAND EAST COAST

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Peterhead

berdeen

Montrose

NORTH EAST

Blyth

Tyne

Sunderland

Seaham Blyth Tees/Hartlepool

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Tyne

NORTH EAST Sunderland

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HUMBER

Seaham

8 Hull 10 Tees/Hartlepool Goole Grimsby/Immingham n Manchester 9 Heysham WASH AND

HUMBER NORTHERN

5

eetwood

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8 Boston

Goole

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Sutton Bridge

Hull EAST ANGLIA King’s Lynn Grimsby/Immingham Great Yarmouth Lowestoft Boston

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2

SUSSEX Shoreham AND HANTS Newhaven Portsmouth

Southampton Poole Cowes

Robert Wynn & Sons barge Inland Navigator, modified for abnormal loads, moving imported steel sections from lower Trent to Leeds. This and other traffic would be encouraged by guaranteed availability of wharf facilities in Leeds area.

WASH AND NORTHERN EAST ANGLIA

King’s 12 Ipswich Lynn Felixstowe Great Yarmouth Sutton Harwich Bridge HAVEN Lowestoft Localised 3 London arpness narrowboat Medway tol Ramsgate 12 1 Ipswich freight Felixstowe 2 Harwich HAVEN Dover Southampton Shoreham ort London Sharpness THAMES le Medway Bristol AND KENT Portsmouth Ramsgate 1 Newhaven Cowes

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At Drax on the Yorkshire Ouse and 90 km from the sea, the river-sea ship Torrent loads 1,200 tonnes of pulverised fuel ash for shipment to Waterford, southern Ireland, and this could become a regular traffic.

At the Wood Wharf construction site on London’s Isle of Dogs a floating concrete batching plant is supplied by aggregates and cement from Thamesside importing terminals by barges of up to 1,000 tonnes capacity.

Dover

THAMES AND KENT

SUSSEX AND HANTS

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Water transport in general and recycling facilities such as that of Powerday at Willesden on the Grand Union could have an important role in the movement of excavated material, tunnel linings and other materials for London’s Crossrail project.

Opened in June 2009, the Three Mills Lock gives access by 350-tonnes barges to the Olympic site but came too late for water transport to contribute significantly in early stages of construction.

What Needs To Be Done?

• The potential for waterborne freight must be given the fullest consideration at the feasibility stage for all major construction projects in proximity to waterways.

• Regional and local planners must make decisions and impose conditions which favour waterborne freight and safeguard strategic wharves.

• Industries and commercial services must maximise their ‘green’ credentials by exploring every possibility for using water freight. (Tesco and Asda show the way) • Logistics managers and transport providers must build it into their supply-chain appraisal - Freight by Water’s updated database will help. (www.freightbywaterdatabase.org) • Government must pay more than lip service to the ‘green’ mode - ensure that funding is adequate for improvement of navigations, craft, and the cost of access to waterways is comparable to that of other modes.

I n many places and for varied freight water transport is already keeping lorries off roads Make It Do More...

WHY NOT HELP? Let regeneration also include freight!

For further information contact: Inland Waterways Freight Group Email:freight@waterways.org.uk

The Inland Waterways Association is a non-profit distributing company limited by guarantee.

Company registration number 612245. Charity registration number 212342.

Registered office: Island House, Moor Road, Chesham, HP5 1WA