Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Challenges for Ports arising from Brexit: Discussion
Mr. Eoin McGettigan:
On the roll-on roll-off, currently we take about 5,000 loads weekly. We could increase that to 35,000 with our existing facilities. The border control inspection point is related to that. If we had one in Cork we could receive goods from outside the EU, which would be the UK then. That is something that people from Cork would seek from Government.
Our new container terminal can handle 50% more volume than we currently have, which would be about another 100,000 container annually. Those containers could come directly from the Continent avoiding the land bridge.
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