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26th October 2022

Trade Handled through Main Irish Ports Up 1% in Q2

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released new figures that show Irish ports handled a total of 13.1 million tonnes of goods in the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 1% compared with the same time last year.

Of the seven main Irish ports - Dublin Port, Bantry, Cork, Drogheda, Rosslare, Shannon and Waterford - 3,085 vessels in total arrived during the three months from April to June.

This marked an increase of 2% on the same time last year.

Also according to the CSO was that Dublin port had accounted for 63% of all vessel arrivals in Irish ports in the three month period.

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CSO Figures Show Goods Handled in Main Irish Ports Marginally Down in Q3 of 2020

The CSO has released new figures on the performance of six of the main Irish Ports. Above: a containership departing in lower Cork Harbour and where a tanker is berthed at the Whitegate Oil Refinery.

Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures show a marginal decrease in the volume of goods handled in six of the seven Irish ports in the third quarter of 2020.

Six of the main Irish ports - Bantry, Dublin, Drogheda, Cork, Shannon and Waterford - handled 12.3 million tonnes of goods in the third quarter of 2020, down 0.1% compared with the same time in 2019.

Goods forwarded from these ports amounted to 4.2 million tonnes during the three months from July to September, while a total of 8.1 million tonnes of goods were received.

The CSO noted that the data for Rosslare is not included in these new figures.

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