Cheers as Tesco decides to ship its wine by barge

25 October 2007

Supermarket giant Tesco has claimed it will cut its carbon emissions by 80% with a new move to start transporting freight by canal from Liverpool to Manchester.

The new transport scheme, which began last Thursday, will transport wine by barge along the Manchester Ship Canal, three times a week.

Some 50 lorries will be off the road each week, saving 1.1M km of heavy lorry journeys on British roads, the company says. Tesco is already planning to use similar waterborne freight routes across Britain.

‘Reducing carbon emissions and looking at how we can make the business more environmentally-friendly is a priority, and by 2012, we aim to halve the amount of carbon emitted per case of goods delivered,’ Tesco distribution director, Laurie McIlwee, said.

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