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Manchester Ship Canal cuts lorry movements
A COMPANY THAT has reopened a freight transport link on Manchester's Ship Canal to move goods off the roads says it could eventually save 15,000 lorry movements a year.
Seaborn Container Line only began the service between the Port of Liverpool and Irlam, near the Trafford Centre, seven months ago, but the managing director, Graham Salt, believes that there's massive potential for the movements of goods by canal.
Salt says the firm is now moving freight for the likes of Tesco, Proctor & Gamble, the Co-Op and Unilever, but he admits smaller companies are not using the service.
"It's still in its infancy," he says. "We have three ships moving a week, which is taking lorries off the road and reducing the carbon footprint, but I can't see smaller companies bothering at all."