Cemex’s Dave Hart appointed to UK Government’s Freight Council
The UK Government’s Freight Council has appointed Cemex’s UK Supply Chain Director, Dave Hart, to help provide vital industry insight and experience of the challenges and opportunities that present themselves across the UK’s multimodal freight and logistics sectors.
Cemex’s admittance to the Freight Council comes as part of the recognition of Cemex’s vital position as a foundational industry that helps to underpin the UK Government’s growth agenda across house building, construction and infrastructure.
Upon the appointment, Dave Hart, comments, “Cemex occupies a particularly unique position within the freight sector utilising road, rail, river and sea to transport essential building and construction materials that support housebuilding, commercial developments, renewable energy and other essential infrastructure projects across the UK.
As well as manufacturing significant volumes of precast concrete rail sleepers on which the UK’s national rail network lays its track, Cemex also then utilises this rail network to transport its materials and products to its customers – acting as both supplier and end-user.”
The Freight Council is a partnership between government, business and trade associations that provides strategic leadership to address challenges facing the multimodal freight and logistics sector. It aims to optimise the sector’s role in delivering across critical areas including the national freight network, net zero, planning, developing people and skills as well as data and technology.
Cemex has been a long-standing advocate of the UK government’s modal shift ambitions and, as well as using rail, Cemex also utilises inland waterway and the UK coastline to transport materials around the country using a mixture of barges, tugboats, ships and dredging vessels, all of which directly contributes towards the Government’s active travel targets by reducing congestion on the UK’s road network.
As a global organisation, Cemex is also able to leverage its international expertise to optimise supply chains and offer practical, actionable advice and guidance directly to leading policymakers on topics such as safety, decarbonisation, alternative fuel usage, supply chain resilience and options to support economic growth.
Cemex produces a variety of building and construction materials including readymix concrete, cement, mortar, asphalt, flooring and paving solutions for use in vital building, construction and infrastructure projects across the UK and beyond. The global building materials provider has a proud heritage in the UK, tracing its origins back to a small family business formed in 1826 who initially started producing lime mortar at a site in Rugby, Warwickshire, where the organisation is still based today.
Cemex currently operates more than 20 quarries, 2 cement plants, 90 concrete mixing plants and a supply chain network boasting a significant logistical capability with a fleet of modern vehicles, locomotives and vessels that supports the delivery of essential building and construction materials throughout the UK by road, rail, river and sea.