Supermarket to 'float' its stock

A supermarket chain is to become the first major retailer in England to start transporting goods by canal.

Tesco will use the Manchester Ship Canal to move crates of wine from South America from the Port of Liverpool and a container terminal at Irlam.

The retailer says the move will mean hundreds of lorries can be taken off the roads reducing congestion and cutting carbon emissions. It already has plans to use other canal links across Britain.

The move has been made possible by the collaboration of Tesco Peel Holdings who run the canal and the Port of Liverpool and importer Kingsland Wines. The new cargo service involves three journeys a week delivering an estimated 600000 litres of wine on each journey along the 40-mile stretch of the canal.

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