Figures released from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that Irish ports in 2022 handled a total of 53.2 million tonnes of goods, this represented a dip of 1% when compared to the previous year.

According to the CSO's Statistics of Port Traffic (Q4 and Year 2022), goods forwarded from Irish ports had amounted to 16.9 million tonnes in 2022.  As for goods received, this amounted to a  total of 36.3 million tonnes entering the nation.

Irish ports had forwarded goods totalling 17.4 million tonnes in 2021 and in the same year 36.6 million tonnes of goods were received.

For figures regarding Great Britain & Northern Ireland they accounted for 35% of the total tonnage of goods handled based from main ports by region of trade in 2022.

In countries of the European Union, the bloc had accounted for 40% of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports.

There was a decrease in the number of vessels that called to Irish ports in 2022 with 12,447 vessels, down 266 vessels from a total of 12,713 vessels that arrived last year.

RTE News has more on the CSO figures.

As for tonnage of goods handled, Afloat adds, they decreased in three of five traffic categories in 2022, where there was a percentage increase in Roll-on/roll-off traffic (Ro-Ro) of 5% and Liquid bulk that was at 3%.

For more of the latest CSO figures including passenger based they can be studied here.