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Information Note - Statistics of Port Traffic Revision Quarter 4 and year 2023

CSO statistical publication, 28 June 2024, 11am

Following a review of the Statistics of Port Traffic (SPT) release for Quarter 4 and Year 2023, which was published on the 28 May 2024, processing and compilation issues were identified.

As of 28 June 2024, all the necessary corrections have been made to the SPT Quarter 4 and Year 2023 data for Dublin. The analysis and outputs of the SPT data for Quarter 4 and Year 2023 including the relevant tables, graphs, and text of this release have been updated to reflect these corrections. The tables affected by these revisions were the Headline Table, Table 1A, Table 4A and Table 5A and the figures affected are Figure 1 and 2.

Users should note that the data in Tables 1,2,2A,3,3A,4,5,6 and 7 of the SPT release were not impacted.

The error resulted in an under-estimation of the SPT for Q4 and Year 2023. The overall heading of goods handled by Irish Ports for 2023 was 46.4 million tonnes of goods when it should have been 47.6 million tonnes.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Table 1: Tonnage of goods handled by main Irish ports 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024

Table 2: Tonnage of goods handled classified by category of traffic, 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024

Table 3: Details of lift-on/lift-off traffic handled by port, 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024

Table 4: Total tonnage of goods handled classified by port and region of trade, 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024

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Table 1: Tonnage of goods handled by main Irish ports 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024
Annual (All Irish Ports)	Category of goods	2023	% Change
Revised 28 June 2023	Lift-on/lift-off traffic	7,817	-8%
	Total goods	47,600	-10%

Published 28 May 2023	Lift-on/lift-off traffic	6,637	-22%
	Total goods	46,420	-13%

Table 2: Tonnage of goods handled classified by category of traffic, 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024
			‘000
Category of traffic	Lift-on/lift-off traffic	2023	Total
Revised 28 June 2023	Received	4,563	32,112
	Forwarded	3,254	15,488
	Total	7,817	47,600
Published 28 May 2023	Received	3,680	31,229
	Forwarded	2,957	15,191
	Total	6,637	46,420

Table 3: Details of lift-on/lift-off traffic handled by port, 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024
		Figures changed for Dublin port only
Revised 28 June 2023	Loaded units			Empty units		Total units
Revised 28 June 2023	Number	TEU's¹	Tonnes '000	Number	TEU's¹	Number	TEU's¹
Received	214,015	383,445	3,430	13,151	24,016	227,166	407,460
Total	275,635	494,420	4,563	33,027	62,689	308,662	557,108

Forwarded	103,571	189,676	2,083	110,920	198,859	214,491	388,535
Total	164,169	307,842	3,254	132,428	232,073	296,597	539,914

Annual total	317,586	573,120	5,514	124,071	222,875	441,657	795,995
Total	439,804	802,261	7,817	165,455	294,761	605,259	1,097,022

Published 28 May 2023
Received	158,834	285,000	2,547	10,197	18,984	169,031	303,984
Total	220,454	395,975	3,680	30,073	57,567	250,527	453,632

Forwarded	87,883	162,924	1,786	71,648	126,792	159,531	289,716
Total	148,481	281,090	2,957	93,156	160,005	241,637	441,095

Annual total	246,717	447,924	4,334	81,845	145,775	328,562	593,699
Total	368,935	677,065	6,637	123,229	217,662	492,164	894,727
¹ TEU Twenty-foot equivalent unit = 1360 cubic feet

Table 4: Total tonnage of goods handled classified by port and region of trade, 2023: Comparison of 2023 Annual results published 28 May 2024 with revised results on 28 June 2024
						‘000
Revised 28 June 2023	Region of trade
Revised 28 June 2023	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	Other EU	Non-EU¹	Other ports²	Coastal trade	Totals
Dublin	13,418	9,479	187	675	910	24,668
Total	17,250	20,903	1,627	5,965	1,856	47,600

Published 28 May 2023
Dublin	13,293	8,502	185	659	849	23,488
Total	17,126	19,926	1,625	5,949	1,794	46,420
¹Non-EU: 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

Information Note - Statistics of Port Traffic Revision Quarter 4 and year 2023