Cross-border businesses surge ahead

THE volume of Irish cross-border trade has continued to grow, topping the half-billion euro mark in the final three months of last year, new figures reveal.

The value of all-island trade in the last three months of 2003 rose by 0.86% to €502 million.

Aidan Gough, InterTrade Ireland’s Director of Strategy and Policy, said the volume of trade into the south from the north was increasing, while the flow in the opposite direction was decreasing.