#FerryTruckStop – A new 200-space 'truck stop' facility outside the Port of Holyhead costing £6.5m has now opened for business.

The facility approximately 1 mile from the north Wales port on Anglesey, provides a range of much needed facilities for the transport industry.

The truck stop initiative has been developed by Roadking, a company owned by Bet Fred owner Fred Done, and the Conygar investment company. The opening of the truck stop will come on-stream at a time when the port has recorded yet another year of significant growth.

Freight figures for the port continue to rise and Roadking anticipates that the facility will be used by many of the drivers travelling to and from Ireland (Dublin Port) who use Holyhead as their preferred shortest and fastest crossing port.

Afloat adds that 2015 is the first year that all ferry routes and operators are concentrated on the Holyhead-Dublin route since Stena Line withdraw HSS operated services to Dun Laoghaire Harbour in September last year.

The other operator on the short-sea central corridor route is Irish Ferries which likewise of Stena Line operate to the Irish capital but to neighbouring terminals within Dublin Port.