CEMEX has agreed a new five-year partnership with Walsh , a leading provider of river, road and rail freight solutions in London.
The contract will see Walsh running barges on the River Thames to transport aggregates from CEMEX’s wharf at Dagenham to its readymix plant at Fulham with a 75% CO2 saving compared to road transport.
This contract will transport CEMEX materials on the Thames with one barge service completed every day. The use of a river barge to transport these materials takes trucks off the road, helping to ease congestion and reduce emissions; each loaded barge carries 400 tonnes which saves the equivalent of 20 HGV lorries travelling across the centre of London.