Dublin Port unveils €600m development masterplan

Transport Minister Leo Varadkar is to launch a new €600mredevelopment plan for Dublin Port.

The expansion will take place over the next 30 years and will include a new cruise liner terminal and will see its cargo handling double.

Dublin Port company will itself invest €110m over the next five years.

Chief Executive Eamon O'Reilly says the size of the port will remain the same for the next 10 years, but after that, expansion will be needed.

"We reckon we have enough of a footprint at the moment to last us for growth for about a decade or maybe even a bit more than that," Mr O'Reilly said.

"So I don't see any major bits of landfill or reclamation coming down the tracks for five, 10 or maybe even more years.

"But I think we will inevitably go from something like 260 hectares to something like 300 hectares, and that's what we've laid out in our plan today."