Ports
World Ports
Dublin Port
North Dock, Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Port is the largest port in the country. In over 7 years the port has the highest growth rate for almost 36.1% of total cargo volumes.
- TEU: 220,000
- The largest and busiest port in Ireland
- Around seventeen thousand vessels movements each year
- Classified as tier 1/tier 2 ports by the national port policy
- Categories as a center and broad port in EU’s TENT-T network
- Manage more or less fifty percent of all trade in Ireland
- Has big share of volumes in ro-ro and lo-lo modes
Port of Cork
Custom House St, Centre, Cork, Ireland
Port of Cork is the principal port serving south Ireland and in the city of Cork.
- TEU: 450,000 annually
- Offers shipping modes; lift on-off, roll-on-off, liquid bulk, dry bulk, breakbulk, and cruise
- Providing all arriving vessels in the quay with pilotage and towage facilities
- Has berth facilities
- Quays are mainly used for transporting oil and grain
Port of Foynes
Harbour Office Foynes, County Limerick Ireland
The Port of Foynes has situated on the River Shannon on the southwest coast of Ireland. It is the second-largest port operator and largest bulk port company in Ireland.
- TEU: N/A
- Supervise the maritime activities on Shannon Estuary
- Port contains six facilities; Dock, Airport Jetty, Marine Terminal, Island Jetty, and Moneypoint Marine Terminal.
- Handles largest vessels ranging 180,000DWT Principally imports; timbers, fuels, and general cargo
- Main exports; meat, sugar, and hydrate
- Handled cargo each year is about 7.6 million tons
Port of Galway
Harbour Office, New Docks, Galway, Ireland
Port of Galway is positioned on the river Corrib at the deepest eastern end of Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland.
- TEU: N/A
- Has 1,044-meter total length in quay
- Can accommodate 9 vessels in the inner dock once
- Mainly imports: petroleum products, fish, dry bulk chemicals, manufactured steel, etc
- Principal exports: scrap metal and a small amount of aggregate
- Handled yearly around one million tons off cargo and three hundred eighty vessels
- Largest vessel accommodated: length of turning area 146.3m, depth of water 8.5 and 7.3m, the width of the entrance 20m
- The high water level is secured by dock gates
Sligo Harbour
Harbour Office Ballast Quay Sligo, Sligo Ireland
The Sligo Harbour is a commercial port located on the southeast bank river Garovogue that proceed Lough Gill.
- TEU: N/A
- The large and sheltered harbor
- Reachable through Sligo Bay to the south of Raughley point
- Has 2 working jetties
- Main exports are forestry products
- Imports: coal, timber, salt, and fertilizers
- Cargo handled each year is about 32,000 tons
- Around twenty-five vessels visit the port
- Max vessel size; LOA 100 meters, 3,500DWT, draught 5,2m, no beam limit
Bantry Bay Harbour
Wolfe Tone Square Bantry, Co Cork Ireland
Bantry Bay Harbour occupies 35 kilometers long in southwest Ireland and is approximately ten kilometers wide.
- TEU: N/A
- Main productions: export of stone, transshipment of oil, tourism, and aquaculture
- Known for having great beaches, fishing, and harvesting mussels
- Population ranging 3,000 in the town of Bantry and 12,500 within sixteen kilometers of the town
Aughinish Alumina Jetty
Harbour Office Foynes, County Limerick Ireland
Aughinish Alumina Jetty is a deep-water jetty in the Shannon, where the clean imports bauxite from Guinea and brazil, and the exports alumina filtered into aluminum metal.
- TEU: N/A
- Handles an alumina production plant
- About 75,000 DWT bauxite vessels handled
- Inside berths used tankers for fuel oil and caustic
- Max size: (inside jetty) LOA 180m, draught 11.0m, 40,000DWT ( outside jetty) LOA 225m, draught 12.5m
