Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Competition in Ports Sector: Competition Authority

10:20 am

Ms Isolde Goggin:

It is all of those - roll-on roll-off, load-on load-off, and bulk. The only ones we did not look at were passenger and cruise ships because they are contingent on other activities in the port and the cruise thing is still quite short. We considered bulk in considerable depth. It is quite different from the other sectors because the transport costs on land are so crucial. That is why people want to have the power station near the deep-water port or have the deep-water port near the power station - I am not sure which is the chicken and egg in that case. Bulk is crucial and it tends to be very local; it cannot go anywhere else and has to be in that location.

I will ask Mr. Aylward to respond on the issue of comparisons with European ports.

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