Govt floats figures for water freight
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n total, 63m tonnes of freight ire moved, or 2.3bn tonne/km, nesenting 1.5 per cent of all me/km freight moved. The rvey showed that 31 per cent the waterways in the survey re not used for freight traffic. Ships catered for 87 per cent of waterway traffic, although not all were travelling on into open sea. In tonne/km, 81 per cent of the freight went into open sea, the remaining 19 per cent being internal traffic.
Two per cent of tonne/km were on estuaries, and maritime waterways (those suitable for seagoing vessels) handled 92 per cent. Six per cent went on non-maritime waterways, and the smaller non-maritime waterways, which account for 47 per cent of available waterway track, handled only 0.6 per cent of tonne/km.
Liquid and dry bulk traffic accounted for 79 per cent of all tonne/km, with petroleum ac counting for 25 per cent, effluent 17 per cent, and crude minerals (mainly sea-dredged aggregates) 16 per cent.
The statistics are available for £10 from the Marine Transport Centre, University of Liverpool, 4 Cambridge Street, PO Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX. Make cheques payable to University of Liverpool.