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In 2014, a total of 12,204 trading vessels (of 100 gross tonnes or more) arrived in Irish ports.
In total, 47.5 million tonnes of goods were handled by Irish ports, of which, 29.1 million tonnes of goods were unloaded and 18.4 million tonnes were loaded.
Dublin port was the busiest port, handling more than two-fifths (44.4%) of all goods in 2014.
In 2014, the busiest ferry route was the Dublin - Holyhead route, which accounted for 59.8% of all passengers on scheduled ferry services.

	Goods received	Goods forwarded	Total goods
2008	36	15	51.1
2009	29	12.8	41.8
2010	30.7	14.4	45.1
2011	29.8	15.2	45.1
2012	31.2	16.5	47.6
2013	31.4	15.2	46.7
2014	29.1	18.4	47.5

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Table 9.1 Total tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports, 2008 - 2014
							'000
	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014

Total goods handled	51,081	41,836	45,071	45,078	47,649	46,722	47,483

Goods received	36,049	28,998	30,712	29,838	31,191	31,403	29,083

Goods forwarded	15,031	12,839	14,359	15,240	16,458	15,319	18,400

Source: CSO

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Table 9.2 Tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports classified by region of trade, 2008-2014
							'000
Region of trade	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014

Goods handled
Foreign trade
Great Britain & Northern Ireland	19,949	16,957	18,002	19,279	16,954	17,028	17,418
Other E.U.	17,334	14,267	14,948	14,111	15,903	15,944	15,495
Non-E.U.	2,967	2,749	3,355	2,049	1,579	2,769	2,363
Other ports	8,908	5,913	7,028	7,555	8,995	8,167	9,283
Coastal trade	1,923	1,950	1,738	2,085	4,218	2,814	2,924
Total goods handled	51,081	41,836	45,071	45,078	47,649	46,722	47,483

Goods received
Foreign trade
Great Britain & Northern Ireland	13,340	11,225	11,564	12,302	9,757	9,963	9,717
Other E.U.	11,085	9,417	9,576	8,256	9,736	10,195	9,160
Non-E.U.	2,168	2,053	2,587	1,539	1,239	2,414	2,044
Other ports	8,491	5,358	6,131	6,817	8,459	7,479	6,866
Coastal trade	966	945	852	924	2,000	1,352	1,296
Total goods received	36,049	28,998	30,712	29,838	31,191	31,403	29,083

Goods forwarded
Foreign trade
Great Britain & Northern Ireland	6,610	5,732	6,438	6,977	7,197	7,064	7,701
Other E.U.	6,249	4,850	5,371	5,855	6,167	5,750	6,334
Non E.U.	799	696	767	510	340	354	319
Other ports	417	555	897	738	536	688	2,418
Coastal trade	957	1,005	886	1,160	2,218	1,463	1,628
Total goods forwarded	15,031	12,839	14,359	15,240	16,458	15,319	18,400

Source: CSO

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Table 9.3 Number of arrivals to Irish ports and gross tonnage of vessels classified by type of vessel and port, 2014

Port	Vessel type												Total
	Liquid bulk		Dry bulk		Container		Specialised		General		Passenger		Total
	Number	Gross	Number	Gross	Number	Gross	Number	Gross	Number	Gross	Number	Gross	Number	Gross
		tonnage		tonnage		tonnage		tonnage		tonnage		tonnage		tonnage
		'000		'000		'000		'000		'000		'000		'000

Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	8	455	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	455
Castletownbere	-	-	13	29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	29
Cork	333	4,399	36	1,013	306	3,126	55	2,479	368	1,196	86	4,729	1,184	16,942
Drogheda	24	61	77	160	-	-	-	-	275	746	-	-	376	966
Dublin	407	3,405	70	1,098	797	5,632	35	1,306	5,654	142,389	77	2,887	7,040	156,718
Dundalk	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	32	72	-	-	32	72
Dun Laoghaire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	157	3,083	-	-	157	3,083
Galway	108	367	53	136	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	161	504
Greenore	-	-	59	366	-	-	-	-	57	160	-	-	116	526
Killybegs	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	28	55	277	10	250	72	555
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Ross	-	-	114	281	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	114	281
Rosslare	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	197	1,677	33,295	-	-	1,692	33,492
Shannon Foynes Port	104	920	154	3,972	-	-	3	26	400	1,970	1	15	662	6,904
Sligo	-	-	9	16	-	-	-	-	3	6	-	-	12	22
Tralee Fenit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	187	-	-	19	187
Waterford	1	11	-	-	102	801	6	43	302	1,033	9	201	420	2,090
Wicklow	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	56	129	-	-	56	129
Youghal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	70	58	-	-	70	58

Total	985	9,619	585	7,071	1,205	9,560	121	4,080	9,125	184,602	183	8,082	12,204	223,014

Source: CSO

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Table 9.4 Number of arrivals to Irish ports and gross tonnage of vessels by type of vessel, 2005 - 2014

Year		Vessel type											Total
	Liquid bulk		Dry bulk		Container		Specialised		General		Passenger		Total
	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000


2005	1,978	10,466	1,333	9,262	2,618	12,768	381	7,997	9,919	175,180	202	4,254	16,431	219,926

2006	1,949	11,756	1,265	9,269	2,658	13,816	306	7,524	9,722	175,385	142	4,508	16,042	222,257

2007	1,713	12,448	1,212	9,156	2,795	14,876	308	8,623	9,934	176,863	123	4,361	16,085	226,326

2008	1,589	12,754	1,465	13,756	2,243	13,642	243	6,250	8,992	175,496	197	7,133	14,729	229,031

2009	1,344	10,361	1,068	7,033	1,986	13,378	121	3,961	8,512	178,981	192	7,469	13,223	221,183

2010	1,349	11,062	1,143	8,255	1,678	12,253	85	3,449	8,813	187,863	243	7,395	13,311	230,276

2011	1,138	10,456	1,088	9,519	1,418	10,190	105	3,691	8,012	180,121	298	9,819	12,059	223,795

2012	1,060	11,386	1,144	9,380	1,403	11,976	113	3,105	7,897	182,102	193	7,035	11,810	224,983

2013	1,027	9,318	773	8,519	1,262	10,176	99	3,279	8,554	169,090	225	9,438	11,940	209,821

2014	985	9,619	585	7,071	1,205	9,560	121	4,080	9,125	184,602	183	8,082	12,204	223,014

Source: CSO

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Table 9.5 Total tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports classified by port and region of trade, 2014
						‘000
Port	Region of trade					Total
	Great Britain &	Other EU	Non-EU¹	Other ports²	Coastal trade
	Northern Ireland	Other EU	Non-EU¹	Other ports²	Coastal trade

Total goods handled
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	110	503	-	309	388	1,311
Castletownbere	-	-	38	-	-	38
Cork	1,183	2,894	1,270	2,264	1,104	8,714
Drogheda	272	899	7	29	13	1,220
Dublin	12,684	6,128	299	1,379	588	21,078
Dundalk	28	29	-	-	27	83
Dun Laoghaire	10	-	-	-	-	10
Galway	33	152	-	-	379	563
Greenore	3	297	44	161	-	505
Killybegs	2	16	17	14	3	52
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Ross	19	242	56	7	6	331
Rosslare	1,578	400	-	-	-	1,977
Shannon Foynes Port	1,304	2,916	480	5,027	261	9,989
Sligo	17	2	-	-	-	19
Tralee Fenit	-	6	-	24	-	30
Waterford	130	891	127	70	155	1,373
Wicklow	40	50	5	-	-	94
Youghal	6	68	20	-	-	93

Total	17,418	15,495	2,363	9,283	2,924	47,483

¹Trade with ports in European countries that are not members of the E.U.
² Trade with ports in Non-European countries
Source: CSO

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Table 9.6 Total tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports classified by port and category of traffic, 2014
						‘000
Port	Category of traffic					Total
	Liquid bulk	Dry bulk	Lift-on/lift-off	Roll-on/roll-off	Break bulk &
	Liquid bulk	Dry bulk	Lift-on/lift-off	Roll-on/roll-off	other goods

Total goods handled
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	1,311	-	-	-	-	1,311
Castletownbere	-	-	-	-	38	38
Cork	4,941	1,616	1,912	55	189	8,714
Drogheda	28	887	-	-	305	1,220
Dublin	3,635	1,879	4,466	11,062	37	21,078
Dundalk	-	80	-	-	3	83
Dun Laoghaire	-	-	-	10	-	10
Galway	405	93	-	-	65	563
Greenore	-	337	-	-	168	505
Killybegs	-	-	-	-	52	52
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Ross	12	318	-	-	2	331
Rosslare	-	-	-	1,977	-	1,977
Shannon Foynes Port	1,001	8,862	-	-	126	9,989
Sligo	-	6	-	-	13	19
Tralee Fenit	-	-	-	-	30	30
Waterford	12	997	267	-	98	1,373
Wicklow	-	53	-	-	41	94
Youghal	-	-	-	-	93	93

Total	11,345	15,128	6,646	13,104	1,261	47,483

Source: CSO

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Table 9.7 Details of roll-on/roll-off traffic handled by Irish ports, 2003-2014

Year	Passenger cars, motorcycles and accompanying trailers/caravans	Passenger buses	Trade vehicles¹		Freight vehicles/trailers²
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Loaded		Empty
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Number	Tonnes '000	Number

2003	948,342	26,223	188,136	254	617,665	9,543	104,408
2004	903,476	26,954	220,687	328	683,692	10,213	117,085
2005	839,160	28,773	237,595	348	684,369	11,424	122,783
2006	792,365	57,165	235,783	329	720,283	11,525	144,238
2007	820,208	68,347	248,020	347	768,863	12,149	151,022
2008	759,139	59,763	166,209	257	742,912	11,823	133,166
2009	779,237	57,555	52,178	77	781,037	10,854	96,375
2010	796,127	60,532	108,810	158	742,377	12,099	111,319
2011	776,443	59,761	101,586	148	747,528	11,914	100,220
2012	740,835	12,971	94,484	120	833,791	11,485	94,741
2013	752,240	13,685	100,104	109	882,781	12,036	103,896
2014	774,438	13,946	131,779	140	942,376	12,965	104,169

1 Vehicles imported or exported
2 Includes 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
Source: CSO

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Table 9.8 Number of cruise ships and passengers by port, 2014

Ports	Number of cruise ships	Number of passengers

Bantry	6	3,882
Castletownbere	0	0
Cork	52	83,201
Dublin	86	97,316
Galway	6	2,860
Killybegs	10	4,976
Shannon Foynes	1	387
Waterford	16	10,197

Total	177	202,819

Source: CSO

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Table 9.9 Number of cruise ships by month of arrival and passengers, 2014

Month	Number of cruise ships	Number of passengers

January	0	0
February	0	0
March	0	0
April	8	9,018
May	35	36,944
June	26	35,592
July	27	35,843
August	49	56,699
September	23	20,823
October	4	4,215
November	0	0
December	5	3,685

Total	177	202,819

Source: CSO

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Table 9.10 Passengers on scheduled international ferry servicesdisembarking/embarking classified by port and route, 2014
							Thousands
Port	Country							Total
	Great Britain				France		Other¹
	Fishguard	Holyhead	Liverpool	Milford Haven (inc. Pembroke)	Cherbourg	Roscoff	Other¹

Disembarking
Cork	-	-	-	-	-	39	-	39
Dublin	-	824	25	-	-	-	2	851
Dun Laoghaire	-	49	-	-	-	-	-	49
Rosslare	309	-	-	4	91	29	-	433
Total disembarking	309	873	25	4	91	69	2	1,372

Embarking
Cork	-	-	-	-	-	39	-	39
Dublin	-	820	24	-	-	-	2	846
Dun Laoghaire	-	59	-	-	-	-	-	59
Rosslare	302	-	-	4	96	34	-	436
Total embarking	302	880	24	4	96	73	2	1,381

All Passengers
Cork	-	-	-	-	-	79	-	79
Dublin	-	1,645	49	-	-	-	3	1,697
Dun Laoghaire	-	108	-	-	-	-	-	108
Rosslare	611	-	-	8	187	63	-	869

Total passengers	611	1,753	49	8	187	142	3	2,753

¹ Not precluding British and French ports
Source: CSO

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