Port handles more cargo, less people

THE Port of Cork recorded further growth in traffic in 2006, topping 10 million tonnes of cargo handled for the second year.

The company’s chairman Dermot O’Mahoney said yesterday that the throughput of container traffic had increased 10.6%.

The number of containers shipped through the terminal was 107,000, with most of the traffic passing through Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugge.