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Statistics of Port Traffic Quarter 2 2025

Irish ports handled 13.8 million tonnes of goods in Quarter 2 2025

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CSO statistical release, 24 September 2025, 11am

Key Findings

The tonnage of goods handled by the eight main Irish ports in Quarter 2 (Q2) 2025 was 13.8 million tonnes (See Editor’s Note below).
Total tonnes of goods handled by Irish ports in Q2 2025 increased by 14% when compared with Q2 2024.
Goods forwarded from Irish ports amounted to 4.4 million tonnes in Q2 2025, up 14% when compared with Q2 2024 (4,425 vs 3,896).
Goods received by Irish ports amounted to 9.4 million tonnes in Q2 2025, 14% higher than Q2 2024 (9,371 vs 8,241).
During Q2 2025, 3,133 vessels arrived in the main Irish ports compared with 2,958 in Q2 2024.
Dublin Port accounted for 1,835 (59%) of all vessel arrivals in Irish ports in Q2 2025.

Statistician's Comment

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (24 September 2025) published Statistics of Port Traffic results for Quarter 2 (Q2) 2025.

Commenting on the release, Damien Lenihan, Statistician in the Transport Division, said:

"Irish ports handled 13.8 million tonnes of goods in April, May, and June (Q2) 2025. This was an increase of 14% compared with Q2 2024.

Goods forwarded from Irish ports amounted to 4.4 million tonnes in Q2 2025, while 9.4 million tonnes of goods were received (See Table 1).

Vessel Analysis

In Q2 2025, 3,133 vessels arrived in Irish ports compared with 2,958 in Q2 2024 (See Table 2).

Dublin Port accounted for 1,835 (59%) vessel arrivals in Irish ports and for 6,543 (47%) of the total tonnage of goods handled in Q2 2025 (See Tables 2 and 5 respectively).

Great Britain & Northern Ireland accounted for 4,569 (33%) of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports by region of trade in Q2 2025. EU countries accounted for 6,174 (45%) of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports (See Table 5).”

Editor's Note

As of Q1 2025, the port of Greenore, Co Louth, is included as a main statistical Irish port. Users should be advised that this will affect comparability as the data in this Q2 2025 release is based on all eight ports whereas previous releases were based on seven ports. Further information on this change can be found in Statistics of Port Traffic Q1 2025 and the Background Notes.

Tonnage of goods handled by main Irish ports, Quarter 2 2023-2025
				'000 tonnes
Category of goods	Q2 2023	Q2 2024	Q2 2025¹	% Change Q2 2024-2025
Liquid bulk	2,840	2,320	2,844	23
Dry bulk	3,021	3,358	4,040	20
Lift-on/lift-off	2,076	2,270	2,503	10
Roll-on/roll-off	4,001	3,921	4,071	4
Break bulk & other goods	249	269	338	26
Total²	12,188	12,137	13,796	14
¹Please note Greenore port is included from Q1 2025. See background notes for further details.
²Figures may not sum due to rounding.

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Tables and Figures

Figure 1 shows the tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports in Q2 2025. Total goods handled increased in all five categories; Liquid Bulk (+23%), Dry Bulk (+20%), Lift-on/Lift-off (+10%), Roll-on Roll-Off (+4%), and Break Bulk & Other Goods (+26%) compared with Q2 2024.

Table 1: Tonnage of goods handled classified by category of traffic, Q2 2023 - 2025

Table 2: Number of arrivals and gross tonnage of vessels, Quarter 2 2023 - 2025

Table 3: Details of roll-on/roll-off traffic handled by port, Quarter 2 2025

Table 4: Details of lift-on/lift-off traffic handled by port, Q2 2025

Region of Trade

Table 5: Total tonnage of goods handled classified by port and region of trade, Q2 2025

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Table 2: Number of arrivals and gross tonnage of vessels, Quarter 2 2023-2025
Port	Q2 2023		Q2 2024		Q2 2025¹
Port	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000
Bantry Bay	1	59	2	87	2	58
Cork	392	8,553	399	8,332	356	7,607
Drogheda	44	257	55	309	61	167
Dublin	1,891	47,011	1,790	48,087	1,835	49,918
Greenore	..	..	..	..	43	400
Rosslare	482	14,182	466	13,465	569	16,053
Shannon Foynes	102	1,363	124	1,454	126	1,697
Waterford	124	1,068	122	854	141	841
Total²	3,036	72,493	2,958	72,587	3,133	76,742
¹Please note Greenore port is included from Q1 2025. See background notes for further details.
²Figures many not sum due to rounding.
.. No Data.

Table 3: Details of roll-on/roll-off traffic handled by port, Quarter 2¹ 2025
Port	Passenger cars, motorcycles and accompanying trailers/caravans	Passenger buses	Trade vehicles²		Freight vehicles/trailers³
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Total		Empty
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Number	Tonnes '000	Number
Received
Cork	6,834	26	9,946	13	1,161	26	5
Dublin	67,553	1,007	32,552	32	121,770	1,741	6,221
Rosslare	34,672	303	5,144	6	28,544	427	781
Total⁴	109,059	1,336	47,642	51	151,475	2,194	7,007

Forwarded
Cork	7,502	31	119	0	1,123	17	430
Dublin	68,472	1,510	385	0	114,917	1,310	29,322
Rosslare	34,071	277	23	0	28,578	499	359
Total⁴	110,045	1,818	527	1	144,618	1,825	30,111

Total
Cork	14,336	57	10,065	13	2,284	43	435
Dublin	136,025	2,517	32,937	33	236,687	3,051	35,543
Rosslare	68,743	580	5,167	6	57,122	925	1,140
Total⁴	219,104	3,154	48,169	52	296,093	4,019	37,118
¹Please note Greenore port is included from Q1 2025. See background notes for further details.
²Vehicles imported or exported.
³Includes data on (a) road goods vehicles and accompanying trailers (b) unaccompanied road goods trailers and semi-trailers and unaccompanied caravans and other road, agricultural and industrial trailers.
⁴Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Table 4: Details of lift-on/lift-off traffic handled by port, Q2¹ 2025
Port	Loaded units			Empty units		Total units
Port	Number	TEU's²	Tonnes '000	Number	TEU's²	Number	TEU's²
Received
Cork	15,843	28,329	290	5,245	10,140	21,088	38,469
Dublin	66,188	118,404	1,109	2,953	5,498	69,141	123,902
Shannon Foynes	0	0	0	337	337	337	337
Waterford	1,552	2,956	33	1,681	3,512	3,233	6,468
Total³	83,583	149,690	1,432	10,216	19,486	93,799	169,176

Forwarded
Cork	14,894	28,323	292	5,211	8,089	20,105	36,413
Dublin	34,272	64,050	718	34,667	61,275	68,939	125,325
Shannon Foynes	106	106	3	0	0	106	106
Waterford	2,773	5,801	58	563	857	3,336	6,657
Total³	52,045	98,280	1,071	40,441	70,221	92,486	168,501

Total
Cork	30,737	56,653	582	10,456	18,229	41,193	74,881
Dublin	100,460	182,454	1,827	37,620	66,773	138,080	249,227
Shannon Foynes	106	106	3	337	337	443	443
Waterford	4,325	8,757	91	2,244	4,369	6,569	13,126
Total³	135,628	247,969	2,503	50,657	89,707	186,285	337,676
¹Please note Greenore port is included from Q1 2025. See background notes for further details.
²TEU Twenty-foot equivalent unit = 1360 cubic feet.
³ Figures may not sum due to rounding.

Table 5: Total tonnage of goods handled classified by port and region of trade, Q2¹ 2025
						‘000
Region of trade
Port	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	EU	Non-EU²	Other ports³	Coastal trade	Total
Bantry Bay	0	0	0	65	0	65
Cork	247	954	113	824	167	2,304
Drogheda	65	241	10	0	7	322
Dublin	3,629	2,581	33	33	266	6,543
Greenore	4	150	13	187	0	355
Rosslare	310	621	0	0	0	932
Shannon Foynes	270	1,300	34	765	214	2,583
Waterford	44	328	89	233	0	693
Total⁴	4,569	6,174	291	2,107	655	13,796
¹Please note Greenore port is included from Q1 2025. See background notes for further details.
²Non-EU: Ports in European countries that are not members of the E.U. This also includes Türkiye, Russia and countries in the Balkans. It does not include Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
³ Trade with ports in Non-European countries.
⁴ Figures may not sum due to rounding.

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Statistics of Port Traffic Quarter 2 2025