McTays Barges

The barges named Ashburn and Ashcroft will be used to transfer Incinerator bottom ash from Cory’s Riverside Resource Recovery Energy from Waste facility, situated on the banks of the River Thames in the London Borough of Bexley. Sealed containers of ash will be loaded on to the barges, where they will be taken to a processing plant in Tilbury and turned into construction aggregate.

Neil Caborn, Cory’s General Manager said: ‘We are delighted to have received the first two barges from McTays. They have been specifically designed for our Thames operations to carry heavier payloads of ash compared to the existing fleet of waste barges.’

Lee Foster, COO of HS Ocean Group, owners of McTays said: ‘The delivery into service of these first of class ‘Ash’ barges is a milestone achievement for McTays, and we take great pride in handing them over to our client, Cory Environmental.’

The barges are the first of four, with the remaining two to be delivered at the end of April. Cory Environmental is one of the UK’s leading recycling, waste management and energy recovery companies, operating across the country and employing over 1400 people at nearly 40 sites. It provides a wide range of integrated services from street cleansing and municipal waste collection to recycling, transfer and disposal.

By Jake Frith