Goods traffic goes up at Irish ports, but cruise ship arrivals fell in 2025

Bantry Bay bucked trend, almost doubling its cruise traffic last year

The Port of Cork at sunset. Irish ports handled 54m tonnes of goods in 2025, up 6% on the year previous, figures released by the Central Statistics Office on Wednesday showed.

Irish ports handled 54m tonnes of goods in 2025, up 6% on the year previous, figures released by the Central Statistics Office on Wednesday showed.

Some 25.4m tonnes of goods went through Dublin, with 9.34m tonnes going through the Port of Cork, and 9.23m tonnes through Shannon Foynes.