Dublin Port shrugs off Brexit with first-half trade

Dublin Port said it has avoided the worst of the potential fallout this year from Brexit even though its rate of expansion is down to the slowest pace for four years, despite a booming economy.

The port said trade in exports and imports as measured by tonnage rose 2.9% in the first six months of the year from a year earlier, the slowest since the 2% growth recorded in the first half of 2013 when the economic recovery was getting underway.

But the growth slowdown was not linked to the effects of Brexit but was due to a “leveling off after exceptional growth” of previous years, a spokeswoman said.