Tender Documents
Research Base
Low Carbon Freight Dividend
The Haven Gateway has secured nearly £3 million of European funding as part of a £7.5m project designed to shift about 30,000 containers off the roads and on to rail transport.
The three-year Low Carbon Freight Dividend project will support more than 300 SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in making important changes in the way they transport freight – with significant environmental benefits. SMEs in the East of England will be offered a Low Carbon Freight Dividend (grant) of up to 30%, for moving their freight from truck to train, where traditionally they have used only road transport.
As well as offering the dividend, the Low Carbon Freight Dividend project will feature workshops on Optimisation of Freight Movements as well as a Low Carbon Transport Marketing Package. A new website, including a resource element will be developed and a key part of the project will be the further development of the Containerised Cargo Carbon Calculator, an online tool developed by the Haven Gateway as a partner within Dryport, an EU Interreg IVB North Sea Region project
The project has a research base 'Greening Freight in the East of England' which will be a fully searchable area of the Low Carbon Freight Dividend website to provide information to all stakeholders with an interest in the project, and in particular the SME's who will be claiming the dividend and attending the workshops.
Quotes and additional information should be sent in writing to Lisa Brazier, Project Manager at the Haven Gateway Partnership, by email (lisa.brazier@haven-gateway.org) by noon on Thursday 9 February 2012.
