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. Eamonn O'Reilly:
I will do my best. Regarding booking systems and container terminals, there is a big difference between the three container terminals in Dublin Port and the one in the Port of Cork. The Port of Cork owns all the equipment and operates the terminal. The three terminals in Dublin are operated by three private sector companies which are competing with each other. They have systems which are capable of being expanded to incorporate a booking system. The systems are unbelievably complex because of the amount of data they handle. A container ship might contain 600 containers. In the first instance, it is up to the individual terminals to put booking systems in place with the technology available to them, as the Port of Cork has done.
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