{"id":10913,"date":"2015-04-01T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/04\/01\/barges-clean-up-river-thames\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:03:20","slug":"barges-clean-up-river-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/projects-initiatives-greenport\/barges-clean-up-river-thames\/","title":{"rendered":"Barges clean up River Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company has taken delivery of two new barges, <i>Ashburn <\/i>and <i>Ashcroft,<\/i> built by McTays Shipbuilders. They will be used to transfer incinerator bottom ash from Cory\u2019s riverside resource recovery energy from waste facility, situated on the banks of the River Thames in the London Borough of Bexley. Sealed containers of ash will be loaded on to the barges, where they will be taken to a processing plant in Tilbury and turned into construction aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to have received the first two barges from McTays. They have been specifically designed for our Thames operations to carry heavier payloads of ash compared to the existing fleet of waste barges,\u201d said Neil Caborn, general manager, Cory Environmental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delivery into service of these first of class \u2018Ash\u2019 barges is a milestone achievement for McTays, and we take great pride in handing them over to our client, Cory Environmental,\u201d added Lee Foster, chief operating officer, HS Ocean Group, owners of McTays. <\/p>\n<p><i>Ashburn <\/i>and <i>Ashcroft<\/i> are the first of four barges, with the remaining two to be delivered at the end of April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based resource management, recycling and energy recovery company, Cory Environmental, is using inland waterways to clean up its operations on the River Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10913\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10913"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}