Plans for the development of Galway Harbour are open for public consultation this weekend, The Irish Times reports.
The Galway Harbour Company's €200 million scheme involves moving the port south onto 24 hectares of reclaimed land in deeper water to accommodate cruise liners.
A new rail link is also proposed, as well as an expanded marina with more than 200 berths.
The company's chief excecutive Eamon Bradshaw said the first stage of the plan would be self-financed, but did not rule out the possibility of EU funding, public-private partnerships and private investment.
Pending planning approval, development is hoped to begin at the end of 2012 - some months after Galway welcomes the return of the Volvo Ocean Race.
Thr Irish Times has more on the story HERE.