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!

Neath NewportCardi�

Swansea

Port TalbotBarry

BristolSharpness

Milford Haven

Fishguard

Par Plymouth

Falmouth

Teignmouth

Southampton

CowesPortsmouth

Shoreham

Newhaven

RamsgateMedway

London

IpswichFelixstowe

Harwich

Lowestoft

Great Yarmouth

King’s Lynn

SuttonBridge

Boston

Grimsby/ImminghamGoole

Tees/Hartlepool

Sunderland

Seaham

Montrose

Inverkeithing

Dundee

Aberdeen

PeterheadInverness

Cromarty Firth

Stomaway

Glensanda

Lochaline

StranraerCairnryan

Workington

Heysham

Fleetwood

LiverpoolGarston

Manchester

Mostyn

Llandulas

Holyhead

BRISTOL CHANNEL

SUSSEXAND

THAMES AND KENT

WASH AND NORTHERN

EAST ANGLIA

HUMBER

NORTH EAST

SCOTLAND EAST COAST

SCOTLAND WEST COAST

LANCS AND CUMBRIA

WEST AND NORTH WALES 3

Major Waterways

1. River Thames2. River Medway3. River Severn4. River Mersey5. Manchester Ship Canal6. River Clyde7. River Forth8. River Humber9. River Ouse10. Aire and Calder Navigation11. River Trent12. River Orwell

Principal PortBoundary of Port GroupMaritime WaterwayNon-Maritime Waterway

Swansea

Port TalbotBarry

BristolSharpness

Milford Haven

Fishguard

Par Plymouth

Falmouth

Teignmouth

Southampton

CowesPortsmouth

Shoreham

Newhaven

RamsgateMedway

London

IpswichFelixstowe

Harwich

Lowestoft

Great Yarmouth

King’s Lynn

SuttonBridge

Boston

Tees/Hartlepool

Sunderland

Seaham

Montrose

Inverkeithing

Dundee

Aberdeen

PeterheadInverness

Cromarty Firth

Stomaway

Glensanda

Lochaline

StranraerCairnryan

Workington

Heysham

Fleetwood

LiverpoolGarston

Manchester

Mostyn

Llandulas

Holyhead

BRISTOL CHANNEL

SUSSEXAND

THAMES AND KENT

WASH AND NORTHERN

EAST ANGLIA

HUMBER

NORTH EAST

SCOTLAND EAST COAST

SCOTLAND WEST COAST

LANCS AND CUMBRIA

Major Waterways

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

4.11.7

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

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

Index 1 : 1.4 : 4.9

One self-propelled barge with 500 tonnes:

25 lorries each with 20 tonnes

Signifi cance 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.

PipelineWaterRailRoad

Pipeline7% Water

5%Rail 5%

Road83%

Pipeline4%

Water 20%

Rail 8%

Road67%

Goods Lifted (tonnes) Goods moved (tonne-kms)

But It Should Be More Important...

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

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

Water transport uses less fuel. It creates less greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.

Key Freight Waterways

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

Localised narrowboat freight

Swansea

Port TalbotBarry

BristolSharpness

Milford Haven

Fishguard

Par Plymouth

Falmouth

Teignmouth

Southampton

CowesPortsmouth

Shoreham

Newhaven

RamsgateMedway

London

IpswichFelixstowe

Harwich

Lowestoft

Great Yarmouth

King’s Lynn

SuttonBridge

Boston

Tees/Hartlepool

Sunderland

Seaham

Montrose

Inverkeithing

Dundee

Aberdeen

PeterheadInverness

Cromarty Firth

Stomaway

Glensanda

Lochaline

StranraerCairnryan

Workington

Heysham

Fleetwood

LiverpoolGarston

Manchester

Mostyn

Llandulas

Holyhead

BRISTOL CHANNEL

SUSSEXAND

THAMES AND KENT

WASH AND NORTHERN

EAST ANGLIA

HUMBER

NORTH EAST

SCOTLAND EAST COAST

SCOTLAND WEST COAST

LANCS AND CUMBRIA

Major Waterways

Swansea

Port TalbotBarry

BristolSharpness

Milford Haven

Fishguard

Par Plymouth

Falmouth

Teignmouth

Southampton

CowesPortsmouth

Shoreham

Newhaven

RamsgateMedway

London

IpswichFelixstowe

Harwich

Lowestoft

Great Yarmouth

King’s Lynn

SuttonBridge

Boston

Tees/Hartlepool

Sunderland

Seaham

Montrose

Inverkeithing

Dundee

Aberdeen

PeterheadInverness

Cromarty Firth

Stomaway

Glensanda

Lochaline

StranraerCairnryan

Workington

Heysham

Fleetwood

LiverpoolGarston

Manchester

Mostyn

Llandulas

Holyhead

BRISTOL CHANNEL

SUSSEXAND

THAMES AND KENT

WASH AND NORTHERN

EAST ANGLIA

HUMBER

NORTH EAST

SCOTLAND EAST COAST

SCOTLAND WEST COAST

LANCS AND CUMBRIA

Major Waterways

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

4.11.7

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

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

Index 1 : 1.4 : 4.9

One self-propelled barge with 500 tonnes:

25 lorries each with 20 tonnes

Signifi cance 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.

Pipeline7% Water

5%Rail 5%

Road83%

Pipeline4%

Water 20%

Rail 8%

Road67%

Goods Lifted (tonnes) Goods moved (tonne-kms)

But It Should Be More Important...

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

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

Water transport uses less fuel. It creates less greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.

Key Freight Waterways

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

Localised narrowboat freight

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.

In 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 GroupEmail:[email protected]

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

waterways freight

Documents

river thames2

river medway3

river severn4

river mersey5

river clyde7

river forth8

river humber9

river ouse10