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Irish Ports according to the Central Statistics Office figures released today show that they handled a total of 11.9 million tonnes of goods in the first quarter of the year. As RTE News reports, this level of goods represented a…

The construction of a sustainable transport bridge at the Port of Waterford between the North and South Quays was expected to begin on Monday 24 July. These works will be ongoing until the end of 2024, subject to weather and…

Harland & Wolff Group's Belfast shipyard has joined Cruise Britain to enable it to connect and grow a world-class Centre of Excellence for Cruise in Belfast. The Belfast shipyard is designed to expertly handle the world’s largest cruise ships within…

The first designated maritime area plan (DMAP) for offshore renewable energy (ORE) has been published by Minister for Environment and Climate Eamon Ryan. The minister announced a consultation on the next phase of offshore wind energy auctions, when he marked…

Dutch shipbuilder Royal Bodewes has launched an Eco-Trader 6,800 dwat newbuild for Arklow Shipping with the general cargo vessel taking to the water, writes Jehan Ashmore. Arklow Rambler with a length overall (LOA) of 104.93m was launched yesterday into the Winschoterdiep…

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan opened the first Offshore Facilitation Forum in Dublin on Thursday (29 June), where he underlined the vital role of ports in delivering the Government’s targets of 5GW of offshore wind energy by 2030. The minister…

Minsters have welcomed the €11 million in co-funding for transport projects in Ireland under the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) which will support two port-related schemes. As reported earlier on Afloat.ie, Irish Rail will receive €2.5 million for studies…

Under blue skies this Bloomsday, the launch of an Arklow Shipping cargoship took place at a shipyard in the north-east of The Netherlands , writes Jehan Ashmore. Near the Dutch city of Groningen the Arklow Glen (yard no. 455) built…

Shipbuilder Harland & Wolff Group is to lead a consortium of companies from overseas to develop and build new zero emission tugs suitable for coastal towage duties. The group based in Queen’s Island, Belfast has entered into heads of terms…

It was a busy year for Fenit Harbour in Co. Kerry as the south-west port handled in 2022 more than a dozen vessels and roughly 24,000 tonnes of cargo. The vast majority of the cargo is from Liebherr cranes manufactured…

Figures released from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that Irish ports in 2022 handled a total of 53.2 million tonnes of goods, this represented a dip of 1% when compared to the previous year. According to the CSO's Statistics…

The story of Ned Wickham, a 23-year-old lifeboat coxswain and the 25-metre Blue whale he captured at the mouth of Wexford harbour in 1891 is the theme of a project created by south-east artist David Begley. Now known as the…

The role of art and culture in re-imagining the future of port cities is the theme of an online Cork CityLabs seminar on June 7th. In the Cork context, Cork Docklands is set to be Ireland’s largest regeneration project which…

The CEO of Scottish shipyard, Ferguson Marine, David Tydeman has said that the vessel was working and that operationally everything was in place to take the ferry “down the river” Clyde. The duel-fuel powered ferry and un-named twin known as…

Development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage in an Irish port is to be debated by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action today (Tues, May 30). Gergely Molnar, gas analyst with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and…

Rosslare Europort says it has “reached a significant milestone” in developing its offshore renewable energy (ORE) hub with approval of a draft foreshore license for final site investigations. It says it “paves the way for its planning application to be…