Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Impact of Brexit on Haulage, Freight, the Ports and Ferry Companies: Discussion

Mr. Kieran O'Callaghan:

The traffic that moves out of Ireland goes in what we call air trucks to go across the UK land bridge. In the system pre Brexit, we were ranked number eight among EU nations for air cargo traffic in transit time from Dublin to London-Heathrow. When we go on to the European airports, we are ranked number 15. When we take the direct ferry route not going across the land bridge, we are ranked number 26 out of the 27 EU nations in transit times. It is crazy that a country that probably has more foreign direct investment than any other is unable to service its air freight model in comparison with other competitors in the EU.