Introduction
The UK’s Inland Waterways provide economic, environmental and social benefits for moving freight.
Read our Campaign page about moving freight by water.
Read more about 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
Members of the IWA Freight group supported Casper River and Canal Transport to open the UK’s most inland port at Stourton in Leeds in May 2025.
[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.]
