UK Launches Waterways Freight Initiative

UK Transport Minister David Jamieson MP launched British Waterways new national freight marketing initiative last month by opening a project on the Grand Union Canal which will see 450,000 tonnes of sand and gravel transported by canal. The contract, which has been signed between British Waterways London, Harleyford Aggregates and Hanson Aggregates, will remove the equivalent of 45,000 lorry journeys from the chronically congested West London roads near Heathrow Airport over a seven year period.