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Dublin Port - The growth of 1.2% in Q3 has been export led

Dublin Port Throughput Increases by 1.2% in Third Quarter

12th October 2020 Dublin Bay

Dublin Port Company has today reported its third-quarter trading figures for 2020. The latest figures show an increase in overall port tonnage of 1.2% for Q3. After nine months, volumes are down by -6.9% compared to the same period last…

The city of river and sea. Modern Dublin and its port looking eastward

Dublin & its Port Have Always Been Inter-linked & Developing Together

7th October 2020 Book Review

If you were asked to name the real centre point of modern Dublin, you'd probably dodge the question by saying that it's somewhere along a line through O'Connell Bridge and Trinity College, and on up Grafton Street or Dawson Street.…

The Climate Action Bill will set in law the principle of carbon neutrality by 2050. Above the south bank quays of Dublin Port with the MTL Terminal (Lo-Lo) in the foreground.

Cabinet told Dublin Port Not Yet Ready for Brexit

7th October 2020 Dublin Port

The Cabinet has heard that Dublin Port is not yet ready for the looming Brexit deadline and needs another inspection facility. On Tuesday Ministers discussed how prepared Irish ports and airports are infrastructurally. The Cabinet was told that while airports…

Dublin Port Company turns its landmark Port Centre building red

Dublin Port Turns Red to Support Fire Safety Week

6th October 2020 Dublin Bay

Dublin Port Company has turned its landmark Port Centre building and The Diving Bell on Sir John Rogerson's Quay red to support National Fire Safety Week 2020, which runs until October 12th. More than 60 of the city's iconic buildings will…

Victorine (above) which CLdN launched onto the first pure RoRo service between the Iberian Peninula (Santander, Spain) with the UK and Ireland in June has been joined by another freight-only ferry Clementine but on a new link from these ports to Leixoes in Portugal.

CLdN Celebrate Second Service Linking Iberian Peninsula to Liverpool & Dublin Port

23rd September 2020 Dublin Port

Freight-ferry operator CLdN and UK ports group, Peel Ports celebate the addition of a second ferry service linking the Iberian peninsula to Liverpool and Dublin Port. The new weekly service connecting Leixoes, Portugal to the UK and Irish ports, follows the…

Dredging Works In Dublin Port Berths & Fairway

9th September 2020 Dublin Port

The Dublin Port Company has given notice that maintenance dredging will take place between Alexandra Basin and the Dublin Bay Buoy from tomorrow, Thursday 10 September. Four weeks of dredging works are scheduled in the fairway and berth pockets from…

Former Dockers Taxi: The Liffey Ferry is back in service as above underway is the No.11 which is operating to strict social distancing measures during the short crossing linking three pontoon stops located in the centre of Dublin's 'Docklands' quarter.

It's That Time Again 'Albeit Only Now' to Cross the Liffey in a Jiffy

28th July 2020 Dublin Port

It's back the Old Liffey Ferry service in Dublin's 'Docklands' has returned following easing of Covid-19 restrictions but running in a more subdued environment of the financial and cultural quarter since the outbreak broke, writes Jehan Ashmore. Operators of the…

Dublin Port arrival - The Q2 decline at the port of -17.0% was less than had been feared following a decline in the month of April of -26.2%. This was followed by a smaller decline of -20.5% in May and by a decline of just -5.5% in June.

Dublin Port Throughput Declines by -10.9% in the Six Months to June

13th July 2020 Dublin Port

Dublin Port Company has today reported its second-quarter trading figures for 2020. The latest figures show a decline in overall port tonnage of -10.9% in the first six months of 2020. As Afloat reported previously, having seen a decline of…

There were no cruise ship calls to Dublin Port (except one AFLOAT adds one in March) in the second three months and none is anticipated for the remainder of the year. Above AFLOAT's photo of Irish Ferries chartered-in ropax Epsilon which operates the core short-sea route to Holyhead. Seen underway is Seatruck Ferries freight-ship Seatruck Pace which served Heysham and currently Liverpool. Both vessels have featured down the years in Afloat's 'Ferry Captain Interview's'

Volumes Down in Dublin Port For First Half of the Year, but Not as Much as Expected

10th July 2020 Dublin Port

Volume of goods passing through Dublin Port were almost 11% down for the first six months of this year, according to figures from the Dublin Port Company. Overall port tonnage, reports RTE News, was 10.9% lower than in the same…

The Docklands Business Forum said approval for Dublin's Port €320m masterplan 'beggars belief'. Above AFLOAT's (file) photo of Alexandra Basin where Phase 1 of the port masterplan involved major reconfiguration of quays and additional hard-standing capacity for cargoes. In this scene is the former Tara Boliden Mines zinc/ore concentrate Bulk Jetty (see loading chute into hold of Arklow Fern which departed the capital on 30 June and reached Odda, Norway today). The facility located in the centre of the basin was demolished last year and replaced with a new mineral terminal built (at the entrance of the former Dublin Dry-Dock: Graving Dock No.2) that opened in October. As usual the main client here is Arklow Shipping and where last month, Arklow Rover, one of their former R class cargoships was sold to Norwegian interests also used the facility. Afloat will have more on the port's new infrastructure and disposal of the Irish flagged ship along with a fleetmate.

Dublin Port's €320m Next Phase Of Masterplan Gets Approval

4th July 2020 Dublin Port

Permission has been given by An Bord Pleanála for the next phase of Dublin Port's €320m masterplan to proceed, subject to conditions. The project, reports RTE, includes the development of a new roll-on roll-off (RoRo) jetty, the lengthening of an…

BG Freight Line (a subsidiary of Peel Ports Group) which has introduced a new tri-weekly Dublin-Liverpool service to meet growing demand on the Irish Sea. Above AFLOAT adds it the containership BG Diamond.

Containers: BG Freight Line Introduce Tri-Weekly Dublin-Liverpool Service to Meet Growing Demand

17th June 2020 Dublin Port

Container operator BG Freight Line has taken a positive step by adding an additional weekly service call to meet the growing demands of traffic between Liverpool and the Irish Sea hub. The newly announced service will call between Liverpool and…

Ro-Ro Cargo Ship Victorine crew members and Captain Andrey Shevchuk (pictured above), receiving care packs from Dublin Port Harbour Master Michael McKenna, with Rev. William Black and Rose Kearney of the Dublin Port Seafarers' Centre. Dublin Port Company is distributing 500 care packs to seafarers in gratitude for their service during the global pandemic

Dublin Port Company Distributes 500 Care Packs to Seafarers

15th June 2020 Dublin Port

Dublin Port Company today delivered the first of 500 care packs to international seafarers as a thank you for their frontline service during the coronavirus crisis. Due to the pandemic, many members of ships’ crews have had lengthy enforced extensions…

Irish Continental Group's (ICG) container division of Dublin Ferryport Terminal (DFT) where a Chinese flagged heavy-lift vessel, Da Ji, is to be unloaded with the discharge of a pair of 'straddle-carrier's (container handling vehicles: see smaller cranes behind the larger gantry cranes) though this is subject to today's weather conditions. Also above in this file photo is berthed Elbetrader (974teu) one of seven chartered containerships of ICG's other container division EUCON which operate a network of 'feeder' services also from Belfast and Cork to mainland continental hub port's of Antwerp and Rotterdam.

Chinese Heavy-Lift Ship With Straddle-Carriers from Africa Calls to Dublin Port Container Terminal

3rd June 2020 Dublin Port

Afloat tracked a Chinese heavy-lift vessel loaded with a project cargo of straddle-carriers which sailed from Oran, Algeria in north Africa and arrived in Dublin Port this morning, writes Jehan Ashmore. The four straddle-carriers (container carrying vehicles) on board the…