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In 2018, a total of 13,264 trading vessels (of 100 gross tonnes or more) arrived in Irish ports.
In total, 55.1 million tonnes of goods were handled by Irish ports, of which, 37.1 million tonnes of goods were unloaded and 18.0 million tonnes were loaded.
Dublin port was the busiest port in 2018, handling almost half (47.8%) of all goods.
In 2018, the most popular ferry route was the Dublin - Holyhead route, which accounted for 63.5% of all passengers on scheduled ferry services.

	Goods received	Goods forwarded	Total goods
2012	30.9	16.2	47.1
2013	31.4	15.3	46.7
2014	29.1	18.4	47.5
2015	33.6	17.0	50.7
2016	33.7	17.0	50.7
2017	35.5	17.8	53.3
2018	37.1	18.0	55.1

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Table 9.1 Total tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports, 2012 - 2018
							'000
	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Total goods handled	47,088	46,722	47,483	50,666	50,712	53,346	55,086
Goods received	30,887	31,403	29,083	33,638	33,744	35,499	37,088
Goods forwarded	16,201	15,319	18,400	17,028	16,967	17,847	17,998
Source: CSO

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Table 9.2 Tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports classified by region of trade, 2012-2018
									'000
Region of trade			2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Goods handled
	Foreign trade
		Great Britain & Northern Ireland	16,887	17,028	17,418	19,721	20,475	22,266	22,028
		Other E.U.	15,413	15,944	15,495	16,370	16,714	17,371	18,795
		Non-E.U.	1,579	2,769	2,363	3,622	4,014	3,419	3,751
		Other ports	8,992	8,167	9,283	8,617	7,832	8,796	8,281
	Coastal trade		4,217	2,814	2,924	2,336	1,677	1,494	2,230
Total goods handled			47,088	46,722	47,483	50,666	50,712	53,346	55,086

Goods received
	Foreign trade
		Great Britain & Northern Ireland	9,725	9,963	9,717	11,166	11,228	13,063	12,925
		Other E.U.	9,464	10,195	9,160	10,552	10,618	11,276	12,565
		Non-E.U.	1,239	2,414	2,044	3,120	3,683	2,790	3,172
		Other ports	8,459	7,479	6,866	7,738	7,520	7,732	7,420
	Coastal trade		2,000	1,352	1,296	1,062	694	638	1,007
Total goods received			30,887	31,403	29,083	33,638	33,744	35,499	37,088

Goods forwarded
	Foreign trade
		Great Britain & Northern Ireland	7,162	7,064	7,701	8,555	9,247	9,203	9,103
		Other E.U.	5,950	5,750	6,334	5,818	6,096	6,095	6,231
		Non E.U.	340	354	319	502	330	630	579
		Other ports	533	688	2,418	879	312	1,064	862
	Coastal trade		2,217	1,463	1,628	1,274	982	856	1,223
Total goods forwarded			16,201	15,319	18,400	17,028	16,967	17,847	17,998
Source: CSO

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Table 9.3 Number of arrivals to Irish ports and gross tonnage of vessels classified by type of vessel and port, 2018
Port		Vessel type											Total
	Liquid bulk		Dry bulk		Container		Specialised		General		Passenger		Total
	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	15	599	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	201	24	800
Castletownbere	-	-	19	52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	52
Cork	392	4,708	135	1,770	359	4,181	52	2,355	456	4,748	93	6,599	1,487	24,360
Drogheda	27	69	24	54	-	-	-	-	395	1,086	-	-	446	1,209
Dublin	527	4,449	60	1,015	966	7,655	104	2,864	6,053	155,200	150	7,551	7,860	178,735
Dundalk	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	54	122	-	-	54	122
Dun Laoghaire	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	30	3	30
Galway	111	379	60	177	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	300	180	856
Greenore	-	-	89	855	-	-	4	24	50	175	-	-	143	1,054
Killybegs	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	3	14	55	15	646	30	704
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	-	-	15	40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	40
New Ross	-	-	130	173	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	130	173
Rosslare	-	-	-	-	-	-	42	905	1,605	44,933	-	-	1,647	45,838
Shannon Foynes Port	106	1,032	196	4,865	-	-	3	66	208	712	3	94	516	6,769
Sligo	-	-	13	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	19
Tralee Fenit	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18	194	-	-	18	194
Waterford	-	-	8	155	99	777	2	10	388	1,471	18	771	515	3,185
Wicklow	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	137	244	-	-	137	244
Youghal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	27	27	-	-	27	27
Total	1,178	11,235	749	9,174	1,424	12,613	208	6,227	9,405	208,967	300	16,193	13,264	264,410
Source: CSO

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Table 9.4 Number of arrivals to Irish ports and gross tonnage of vessels by type of vessel, 2008 - 2018¹
Year		Vessel type											Total
	Liquid bulk		Dry bulk		Container		Specialised		General		Passenger		Total
	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000	Number	Gross tonnage '000
2008	1,589	12,754	1,465	13,756	2,243	13,642	243	6,250	8,992	175,496	197	7,133	14,729	229,031
2009	1,344	10,361	1,068	7,033	1,986	13,378	121	3,961	8,512	178,981	192	7,469	13,223	221,183
2010	1,349	11,062	1,143	8,255	1,678	12,253	85	3,449	8,813	187,863	243	7,395	13,311	230,276
2011	1,138	10,456	1,088	9,519	1,418	10,190	105	3,691	8,012	180,121	298	9,819	12,059	223,795
2012	1,060	11,386	1,144	9,380	1,403	11,976	113	3,105	7,927	183,353	163	5,784	11,810	224,983
2013	1,031	9,783	766	8,500	1,262	10,176	99	3,279	8,597	170,487	209	8,534	11,964	210,762
2014	998	10,149	585	7,071	1,205	9,560	121	4,080	9,161	185,931	169	7,358	12,239	224,149
2015	1,043	10,353	586	8,425	1,204	9,417	200	7,271	9,054	187,520	188	10,147	12,275	233,134
2016	1,129	10,708	866	10,035	1,240	11,607	189	6,260	9,278	191,436	207	9,006	12,909	239,052
2017	1,054	10,619	789	8,406	1,240	11,384	210	6,166	9,302	195,874	234	10,637	12,829	243,087
2018	1,178	11,235	749	9,174	1,424	12,613	208	6,227	9,405	208,967	300	16,193	13,264	264,410
Source: CSO
¹ Minor revisions to some ports from 2013 to 2017

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Table 9.5 Total tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports classified by port and region of trade, 2018
						‘000
Port	Region of trade					Total
Port	Great Britain & Northern Ireland	Other EU	Non-EU¹	Other ports²	Coastal trade	Total
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	33	128	-	380	-	542
Castletownbere	-	0	58	-	-	58
Cork	1,677	2,951	1,755	2,401	733	9,518
Drogheda	456	877	59	40	23	1,455
Dublin	16,311	7,932	849	630	611	26,332
Dundalk	50	50	9	-	5	113
Dun Laoghaire	-	-	-	-	-	-
Galway	46	153	1	-	383	582
Greenore	-	385	76	444	-	906
Killybegs	15	9	-	8	-	32
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	3	44	-	-	-	47
New Ross	41	321	20	7	-	390
Rosslare	1,744	398	-	-	-	2,143
Shannon Foynes Port	1,449	3,930	720	4,110	472	10,681
Sligo	17	1	-	-	-	19
Tralee Fenit	1	8	2	17	-	28
Waterford	40	1,538	169	244	3	1,995
Wicklow	139	54	-	-	-	193
Youghal	6	15	32	-	-	53
Total	22,028	18,795	3,751	8,281	2,230	55,086
Source: CSO
¹ Trade with ports in European countries that are not members of the E.U.
² Trade with ports in Non-European countries

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Table 9.6 Total tonnage of goods handled by Irish ports classified by port and category of traffic, 2018
						‘000
Port	Category of traffic					Total
Port	Liquid bulk	Dry bulk	Lift-on/lift-off	Roll-on/roll-off	Break bulk & other goods	Total
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	542	-	-	-	-	542
Castletownbere	-	-	-	-	58	58
Cork	5,355	1,993	1,803	107	260	9,518
Drogheda	36	1,207	-	-	213	1,455
Dublin	4,635	2,335	5,532	13,807	24	26,332
Dundalk	-	113	-	-	-	113
Dun Laoghaire	-	-	-	-	-	-
Galway	407	103	-	-	72	582
Greenore	-	721	-	-	184	906
Killybegs	-	12	-	-	21	32
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	-	47	-	-	-	47
New Ross	3	387	-	-	0	390
Rosslare	-	-	-	2,123	19	2,143
Shannon Foynes Port	1,193	9,263	-	-	225	10,681
Sligo	-	5	-	-	14	19
Tralee Fenit	-	-	-	-	28	28
Waterford	-	1,552	295	-	148	1,995
Wicklow	-	17	-	-	176	193
Youghal	-	-	-	-	53	53
Total	12,171	17,754	7,629	16,037	1,496	55,086
Source: CSO

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Table 9.7 Details of roll-on/roll-off traffic handled by Irish ports, 2008-2018
Year	Passenger cars, motorcycles and accompanying trailers/caravans	Passenger buses¹	Trade vehicles²		Freight vehicles/trailers³
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Loaded		Empty
	Number	Number	Number	Tonnes '000	Number	Tonnes '000	Number
2008	759,139	59,763	166,209	256	742,912	11,823	133,166
2009	779,237	57,556	52,152	76	678,730	10,850	103,045
2010	796,127	60,532	108,810	157	742,377	12,098	111,319
2011	776,443	59,761	101,586	148	747,528	11,914	100,220
2012	740,835	12,971	94,484	120	834,159	11,489	94,741
2013	752,240	13,685	100,104	109	882,781	12,036	103,896
2014	774,438	13,946	131,779	140	942,376	12,965	104,169
2015	782,530	14,468	175,295	187	994,957	13,719	107,501
2016	786,853	14,400	180,085	192	1,075,209	14,692	121,870
2017	799,318	14,745	159,011	167	1,122,270	15,330	124,253
2018	785,680	14,095	164,695	174	1,164,797	15,863	130,396
Source: CSO
¹ Please note that data prior to 2012 is not directly comparable due to some reclassification of variables.
² Vehicles imported or exported.
³ Includes data on (a) road goods vehicles and accompanying trailers (b) unaccompanied road goods trailers and semi-trailers and (c) unaccompanied caravans and other road, agricultural and industrial trailers.

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Table 9.8 Number of cruise ships and passengers by port, 2018
Ports	Number of cruise ships	Number of passengers
Bantry	9	5,472
Castletownbere	0	0
Cork	93	157,669
Dublin¹	150	196,899
Dún Laoghaire	3	476
Galway	9	6,059
Killybegs	15	13,070
Rosslare	0	0
Shannon Foynes	3	1,333
Waterford	18	17,527
Total	300	398,505
Source: CSO
¹ Includes passengers embarking in Dublin port

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Table 9.9 Number of cruise ships by month of arrival and passengers, 2018
Month	Number of cruise ships	Number of passengers
January	0	0
February	0	0
March	2	968
April	18	25,406
May	75	106,023
June	43	56,895
July	54	69,580
August	51	78,319
September	47	48,270
October	8	11,909
November	0	0
December	2	1,135
Total	300	398,505
Source: CSO

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Table 9.10 Passengers on scheduled international ferry servicesdisembarking/embarking classified by port and route, 2018
'000
Port	Country								Total
	Great Britain				France			Other¹
	Fishguard	Holyhead	Liverpool	Pembroke	Cherbourg	Roscoff	Santander	Other¹
Disembarking
Cork	-	-	-	-	-	47	8	0	55
Dublin	-	869	24	-	10	-	-	2	906
Rosslare	137	-	-	142	89	37	-	-	405
Total disembarking	137	869	24	142	100	84	8	3	1,366

Embarking
Cork	-	-	-	-	-	46	10	-	56
Dublin	-	853	20	-	11	-	-	2	886
Rosslare	130	-	-	142	88	42	-	-	402
Total embarking	130	853	20	142	99	88	10	2	1,344

All Passengers
Cork	-	-	-	-	-	93	18	0	110
Dublin	-	1,722	45	-	21	-	-	5	1,792
Rosslare	267	-	-	284	177	80	-	-	808
Total passengers	267	1,722	45	284	198	172	18	5	2,711
Source: CSO
¹ Not precluding British and French ports

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