IRISH SEA SHIPPING LINES
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BREXIT IMPLICATIONS ON IRISH SEA SHIPPING It’s feared a no deal Brexit will have severe implications on some shipping routes across the Irish Sea, not least on the Holyhead/Dublin crossing. While shipping through ports in Northern Ireland like Belfast, Larne and Warrenpoint, should not be as badly impacted Irish Premier Leo Varadkar says his government would have to impose tariffs on goods entering Ireland from the UK. He added: “We would also have to put in place the necessary customs checks and controls, and we have the infrastructure in place at Dublin
Port and the staff to do that but we really don’t want to do it.” According to the Central Statistics Office, Dublin Port accounted for 59.3% of all vessel arrivals in Irish ports and 47.8% of the total of all goods handled in 2018; the routes between Dublin and the UK ports of Holyhead, Liverpool and Milford Haven were the busiest routes for inward movement of goods.
alternative to the landbridge.
Meanwhile it has also been reported that the Irish shipping industry has seen a significant rise in traffic as companies bypass British ports amid Brexit fears.
The landbridge is the UK transit route linking Ireland and mainland Europe, and an estimated 150,000 Irish trucks and three million tonnes of goods travel through the UK for export to the EU each year.
Irish ports have been forced to adapt quickly and increase capacity for direct sailings to continental EU ports as manufacturers increasingly see Irish ports like Dublin and Rosslare as an
Currently, two-and-a-half times more goods move on direct routes from Dublin than through the UK, and that number is expected to increase.
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