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Statistics of Port Traffic Quarter 3 2022

Irish ports handled 12.3 million tonnes of goods in Q3 2022

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CSO statistical publication, 30 January 2023, 11am

Key Findings

Total tonnes of goods handled by Irish ports in Q3 2022 increased by 4% compared with Q3 2021.
During Q3 2022, 3,202 vessels arrived in the seven main Irish ports.
Dublin port accounted for 62% of all vessel arrivals in Irish ports.
Goods forwarded from Irish ports amounted to 4,145 thousand tonnes in Q3 2022.
Goods received amounted to 8,174 thousand tonnes in Q3 2022.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (30 January 2023) published Statistics of Port Traffic results for Q3 2022.

Commenting on the quarterly figures, Dr Nele van der Wielen, Statistician in the Transport Division, said: “Irish ports handled 12.3 million tonnes of goods in July, August and September (Q3) 2022. This is an increase of 4% compared with Q3 2021 and a decrease of 6% when compared with the previous quarter (Q2 2022).

Goods forwarded from Irish ports amounted to 4,145 thousand tonnes in Q3 2022, while a total of 8,174 thousand tonnes were received. Great Britain & Northern Ireland accounted for 38% of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports by region of trade in Q3 2022. EU countries accounted for 40% of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports.

Port Traffic

The total number of vessels arriving during Q3 2022 in the seven main Irish ports decreased by 3% when compared with Q3 2021. Dublin port accounted for 62% of all vessel arrivals in Irish ports.”

Tonnage of goods handled by main Irish ports, Quarter 3 2020-2022
				'000 tonnes
Category of goods	Q3 2020	Q3 2021	Q3 2022	% Change Q3 2021-2022
Liquid bulk	2,814	2,741	2,725	-1%
Dry bulk	3,487	3,554	3,154	-11%
Lift-on/lift-off	2,078	2,255	2,162	-4%
Roll-on/roll-off	4,085	3,961	4,016	1%
Break bulk & other goods	282	298	262	-12%
Total	12,746	12,808	12,319	-4%

Open in Excel: Statistics of port traffic Q3 2022 Headline table (XLS 10KB)

Tables and figures

The tonnage of goods handled decreased in four of five traffic categories in Q3 2022, there was a quarterly percentage increase in Roll-on/roll-off traffic (1%).

Table 1: Number of arrivals and gross tonnage of vessels, Q3 2020-2022

Table 2: Tonnage of goods handled classified by category of traffic, Q3 2020-2022

Table 3: Details of roll-on/roll-off traffic handled by port, Q3 2022

Table 4: Details of lift-on/lift-off traffic handled by port, Q3 2022

Table 5: Total tonnage of goods handled classified by port and region of trade, Q3 2022

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Table 1: Number of arrivals and gross tonnage of vessels, Quarter 3 2020-2022
Port	Q3 2020		Q3 2021		Q3 2022
Port	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000
Bantry Bay	6	328	6	243	1	81
Cork	327	4,226	498	7,080	393	9,258
Drogheda	95	255	96	235	49	119
Dublin	1,896	46,652	1,960	49,465	1,983	49,597
Rosslare	437	10,918	536	13,587	581	17,046
Shannon Foynes	100	1,394	110	1,594	91	1,374
Waterford	118	608	96	583	104	1,338
Total	2,979	64,381	3,302	72,787	3,202	78,814

Table 3: Details of roll-on/roll-off traffic handled by port, Quarter 3 2022
Port	Passenger cars, motorcycles and accompanying trailers/caravans	Passenger buses	Trade vehicles¹		Freight vehicles/trailers²
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Total		Empty
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Number	Tonnes '000	Number
Received
Cork	10,416	11	8,551	11	1,121	23	30
Dublin	101,457	735	24,265	24	127,018	1,812	5,785
Rosslare	45,523	218	0	0	24,605	360	667
Total	157,396	964	32,816	35	152,744	2,195	6,482

Forwarded
Cork	10,017	10	162	0	1,049	16	342
Dublin	99,130	825	203	0	122,021	1,345	34,182
Rosslare	43,638	213	0	0	25,209	426	335
Total	152,785	1,048	365	0	148,279	1,786	34,859

Total
Cork	20,433	21	8,713	11	2,170	39	372
Dublin	200,587	1,560	24,468	24	249,039	3,156	39,967
Rosslare	89,161	431	0	0	49,814	786	1,002
Total	310,181	2,012	33,181	35	301,023	3,981	41,341
¹Vehicles imported or exported
²Includes data on (a) road goods vehicles and accompanying trailers (b) unaccompanied road goods trailers and semi trailers and
(c ) unaccompanied caravans and other road, agricultural and industrial trailers

Table 4: Details of lift-on/lift-off traffic handled by port, Quarter 3 2022
Port	Loaded units			Empty units		Total units
Port	Number	TEU's¹	Tonnes '000	Number	TEU's¹	Number	TEU's¹
Received
Cork	14,583	26,181	265	5,241	10,156	19,824	36,336
Dublin	55,006	98,860	888	3,718	7,022	58,724	105,882
Waterford	1,690	3,203	37	1,246	2,803	2,936	6,006
Total	71,279	128,244	1,190	10,205	19,980	81,484	148,224

Forwarded
Cork	14,095	26,929	273	5,629	9,080	19,724	36,008
Dublin	31,579	58,003	653	25,457	45,377	57,036	103,380
Waterford	2,338	5,162	46	718	1,115	3,056	6,278
Total	48,012	90,094	972	31,804	55,572	79,816	145,666

Total
Cork	28,678	53,109	538	10,870	19,235	39,548	72,345
Dublin	86,585	156,863	1,541	29,175	52,399	115,760	209,262
Waterford	4,028	8,366	83	1,964	3,918	5,992	12,284
Total	119,291	218,337	2,162	42,009	75,552	161,300	293,890
¹TEU Twenty-foot equivalent unit = 1360 cubic feet

Table 5: Total tonnage of goods handled classified by port and region of trade, Quarter 3 2022
						‘000
Region of trade
Port	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	EU	Non-EU¹	Other ports²	Coastal trade	Total
Bantry Bay	0	70	0	0	0	70
Cork	344	682	293	791	141	2,251
Drogheda	91	123	6	4	0	224
Dublin	3,647	2,451	42	176	175	6,491
Rosslare	262	525	0	0	0	786
Shannon Foynes	292	854	40	750	171	2,106
Waterford	8	256	29	97	0	390
Total	4,644	4,960	411	1,818	487	12,319
¹Non-EU refers to trade with ports in European countries that are not members of the E.U. This also includes Turkey, Russia and countries in the Balkans. It does not include Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
² Trade with ports in Non-European countries

Statistics of Port Traffic Quarter 3 2022