Introduction
IWA has supported the carriage of freight by water since its founding in 1946. The UK’s Inland Waterways provide economic, environmental and social benefits for moving freight. Read more here about the advantages of water transport:
The Inland Waterways Association Policy on Freight on Inland Waterways
Map of the UK’s Inland Waterways
All Party Parliamentary Group for the Waterways: Freight and Sustainability – see the September 2021 meeting
[The Photo shows loading sea-dredged sand into Branford Barge Owners’ Farndale H at Albert Dock, Hull – by Jonathan Mosse. See also the video of the boat out on the Humber Estuary later the same day.]