Sea and Water Annual Conference
SEA and Water, the promotional body that highlights the benefits of water-freight transport, is calling on logistics and corporate & social responsibility managers to hear the case for using water-freight transport within the UK at its annual conference: ‘Promoting water as the environmental-freight solution’, which will take place at the Merseyside Maritime Museum on Tuesday 24 April 2007.
According to Sea and Water, there are over 11,000 miles around Britain’s coastline where over 130 commercial ports and wharves operate, as well as more than 2,000 miles of inland waterways, rivers and estuaries where freight can be transported.
Speakers at the conference will include: Dr Alice Bows of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change; Bo Lerenius, president of Sea and Water; Lord Berkeley, chair of the Rail Freight Group; Duncan Buchanan, the recently appointed head of sustainable logistics policy at the Department for Transport; James Trimmer, head of planning and partnerships with the Port of London Authority; John Pomfret, member of the Inland Waterways Advisory Council; and Paul Moore, logistics planning and development director for CEMEX.
Dr Heather Leggate, executive director of Sea and Water, said: ‘We urge logistics managers and advisers to attend this conference as they will learn first-hand from some major corporates who, for the first time, will be presenting their cases for using water freight. As the most environmentally sustainable mode of transport, making a modal shift to water will help organizations meet their corporate and social responsibility targets, which their customers are calling for.’
For more information contact Karen Bermingham on tel: (020) 7340 9531. Alternatively, to confirm a seat at the conference, download an application form by clicking on the web link below.
