Strong export growth boosts trade volumes at Dublin Port by 6.1%

PARTICULARLY strong export growth boosted trade volumes at Dublin Port by 6.1% last year, according to figures.

Some 28.1 million tonnes went through the country’s main port, last year, which was less than 10% down on its best ever performance in 2007, at the height of Ireland’s economic boom.

Of this, 16.93m tonnes related to imports; a figure which was up by 2.4% on a year-on-year basis and 11.18m tonnes were export-related, which represented a 12.2% increase on the preceding year.