Freight by river

Recovered steel and scaffolding en route from Blackfriars Station project

Concrete on the move: pre-cast concrete being moved by barge to the Blackfriars Station scheme (image courtesy of Balfour Beatty)

Construction site in the river: on site at Blackfriars

Most of the materials for the Blackfriars Bridge project are moved by river (image courtesy of Balfour Beatty)

The river came into its own when Concorde was moved from Heathrow to Scotland

A refurbished pod being returned to the London Eye by Livetts Launches

Loading rubbish in containers onto barges at Western Riverside, Wandsworth

Rubbish on the move! Barges head downriver at Tower Bridge (image courtesy of Cory Environmental)

Sand and gravel are regularly moved between terminals on the river

230 tonnes of pre cast concrete for the cable car project on a Livetts Launches pontoon

Large tanks from a brewery being moved by Bennetts Barges (image courtesy of Bennetts Barges)

The UK's only floating ready-mixed concrete plant on site at Canary Wharf (image courtesy of Hanson)

Tunnelling spoil from Thames Water's Lea Tunnel scheme moving from Beckton to Mucking and building materials to nearby wharves. 1.5 million tonnes of excavated material plus aggregates moved by river; 75,000 lorry journeys saved.