Company’s UK supply chain director, Dave Hart, to help provide vital industry insight and experience
THE UK Government’s Freight Council has appointed Cemex’s UK supply chain director, Dave Hart, to help provide vital industry insight and experience of the challenges and opportunities that present themselves across the UK’s multimodal freight and logistics sectors.
Cemex’s admittance to the Freight Council comes as part of the recognition of Cemex’s vital position as a foundational industry that helps to underpin the UK Government’s growth agenda across house building, construction, and infrastructure.
Upon his appointment, Dave Hart, commented: ‘Cemex occupy a particularly unique position within the freight sector utilizing road, rail, river, and sea to transport essential building and construction materials that support house building, commercial developments, renewable energy, and other essential infrastructure projects across the UK.
‘As well as manufacturing significant volumes of precast concrete rail sleepers on which the UK’s national rail network lays its track, Cemex also then utilize this rail network to transport their materials and products to their customers – acting as both supplier and end-user.’
The Freight Council is a partnership between government, business, and trade associations that provides strategic leadership to address challenges facing the multimodal freight and logistics sector. It aims to optimize the sector’s role in delivering across critical areas, including the national freight network, net zero, planning, developing people and skills, as well as data and technology.
Cemex have been a long-standing advocate of the UK Government’s modal shift ambitions and, as well as using rail, the company also utilizes inland waterways and the UK coastline to transport materials around the country, using a mixture of barges, tugboats, ships, and dredging vessels, all of which directly contributes towards the Government’s active travel targets by reducing congestion on the UK’s road network.
As a global organization, Cemex are also able to leverage their international expertise to optimize supply chains and offer practical, actionable advice and guidance directly to leading policymakers on topics such as safety, decarbonization, alternative fuel usage, supply chain resilience, and options to support economic growth.
Cemex currently operate more than 20 quarries, two cement plants, 90 concrete mixing plants, and a supply chain network boasting a significant logistical capability with a fleet of modern vehicles, locomotives, and vessels to support the delivery of essential building and construction materials throughout the UK by road, rail, river, and sea.
