Warrenpoint Harbour Authority this week welcomed students from St. Louis Grammar School in Kilkeel, Co. Down as they took a tour of the port estate before boarding a Seatruck Ferries-freight ship that operates on the Irish Sea.

The young students boarded the M.V. Seatruck Point, Afloat adds a P-class ro-ro vessel custom built for Seatruck Ferries but was originally named Clipper Point. The 210 trailer-unit capacity vessel is the leadship of a quartet built by Astilleros de Huelva S.A., Huelva in southern Spain.

WHA thanked the Seatruck team for supporting the visit and showing the students around the 14,759 gross tonnes freight-ferry which operates the Warrenpoint-Heysham route.

This route is one of three on the Irish Sea that Seatruck (owned by CLdN) operates between the UK and Ireland where at Dublin Port, hub operations are linked to routes connecting mainland Europe including the Iberian Peninsula.

The port authority has a close association with the school as former St Louis student and deputy Harbour Engineer at WHA, James Cunningham gave a presentation about Warrenpoint Port.

Micheal White, (son of WHA’s Mechanical Supervisor Raymond and) teacher at St Louis, organised the visit to the port on Carlingford Lough.