Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Shannon Foynes Port Company: Chairperson Designate
1:30 pm
Mr. David McGarry:
Shannon Foynes Port's real strategic advantage is its Atlantic location on the west coast of the country. It is a very reputable, well-known, deep-water port with facilities that are getting better. As Europe changes and as the size of ships grows and as Brexit becomes a reality that creates good opportunity for Shannon as the port on the western side of the country to be a step-off point, rather than going to the UK. Rather than taking volume or business from the eastern coast, the world is becoming bigger for us. It is about creating opportunities from Brexit, the size of ships and opening up the world for the services that we can provide.
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