Sustainable sales of seafood around the UK have taken a significant step forward with the launch of an electrification pilot with Grimsby’s fish van fleet.
Scores of mobile fishmongers leave the town every week, taking the key export to neighbourhoods across the country. Now work is being undertaken by the University of Lincoln’s National Centre for Food Manufacturing and the Seafood Grimsby and Humber Alliance to decarbonise the key economic driver.
It is being supported and funded by the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, the Government and Toyota UK. Vans currently used are estimated to have a carbon footprint of 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, and the pilot aims to reduce this for at least 10 vans.
