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1st December 2021

Irish Rail Launch National Freight Plan With Ports Among 2040 Strategy

According to the Dept of Transport, the new Rail Freight 2040 Strategy launched today by IrishRail and Minister Hildegarde Naughten targets a five-fold increase in freight services on Ireland’s rail network. This will reduce our CO2 emissions by 25,000 tonnes annually and enhance our connectivity. Above containers from operator Samskip at the Port of Waterford.

Irish Rail (Iarnród Éireann) has launched a national rail freight plan in Ballina in Co Mayo, which aims to increase operations in line with growth in demand across the EU.

As RTE News reports, the company says the expansion will be in line with the Government's Climate Action Plan goals.

Ballina is one of Iarnród Éireann’s key hubs for the movement of freight, with container services operating to Dublin Port and, in recent months, to the southeast of the country.

This morning, the rail yard was busy organising the transportation of Coillte pulpwood to Waterford Port (see Samskip container business)

The Rail Freight 2040 Strategy aims to have a five-fold increase in operations, including over 100 new weekly services across the network with new low carbon modes of transport.

To read more including from Glenn Carr, General Manager of Rail Freight Ireland (and Rosslare Europort Afloat adds) click here.

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About World Ocean Day

World Ocean Day is celebrated annually on June 8th to highlight the important role the ocean has for our life and the planet. The focus each year is on the 30x30 campaign: to create a healthy ocean with abundant wildlife and to stabilise the climate, it is critical that 30% of our planet’s lands, waters, and oceans are protected by 2030.

One of the issues affecting our ocean is marine litter which has become a global problem for both humans and marine life. However, communities around Ireland have demonstrated their desire to be part of the solution by taking part in several beach cleaning and clean-up calls to action.

Statistics show that the number one cause of marine litter is litter dropped in towns and cities.

In 2021, the initiative changed its name from “World Oceans Day” to “World Ocean Day”. By dropping the “s”, its organisers wanted to highlight the fact that we are all connected by a large ocean. This shared ocean supports all life on the planet, by producing most of the oxygen we breathe and regulating climate. No matter where we live, we all depend on the ocean to survive.

This means that each piece of marine litter removed from a beach, river, lake, park or street in Ireland, will have a positive impact on a global scale.