Ronan Hughes, and his brother Christopher, 34, both from Co Armagh were named earlier this week as people the police wanted to speak to in connection with the deaths.

Maurice Robinson, 25, who is known as Mo, was remanded in custody by magistrates in Chelmsford on Monday after appearing before them via video link.

Essex Police are investigating lines of inquiry to “establish whether there is a wider conspiracy involved” in the deaths of 39 people found in a lorry in Essex.

Detectives are continuing to question four people over the deaths of 39 migrants whose bodies were found inside a lorry in Essex.

The directors of a Co Monaghan hire company has said it is “shellshocked” and “gutted” after 39 Chinese people were found dead in one of its trailers.

A group of suspected migrants has been detained in Zeebrugge a day after 39 people were found dead inside a container shipped from the Belgian port.

Gardaí do not believe that the 39 people found dead in a container yesterday in the UK were trafficked through Ireland.

he shocking discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex, in the south-east of England, is a salutary reminder of the dangers of all forms of human trafficking and recalls a similar tragedy in 2000 when the bodies of 58 young Chinese people were found in a container at Dover.

The Irish shipping industry has seen a marked increase in business as companies bypass British ports amid Brexit fears, the head of Dublin Port has said.

The Chief Executive of Dublin Port suspects fresh produce may board ships that go straight to Europe.

The Government has been urged to commission a report on the ability of Irish ports to handle new routes and extra cargo bypassing the British mainland and going direct to mainland Europe in the event of the UK leaving the customs union.

The Government has been urged to commission a report on the ability of Irish ports to handle new routes and extra cargo bypassing the British mainland and going direct to mainland Europe in the event of the UK leaving the customs union.

The Government has been urged to commission a report on the ability of Irish ports to handle new routes and extra cargo bypassing the British mainland and going direct to mainland Europe in the event of the UK leaving the customs union.

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Police have arrested a man over the death of an immigrant found in a container at Tilbury Docks.

Thirteen children, including a child as young as one, were among the Afghan immigrants rescued from a shipping container on Saturday.

Police are expected to question a group of immigrants who were found inside a shipping container at a busy port as they continue their investigation into how they were trafficked into the country.

Police have launched a “homicide investigation” after 35 suspected immigrants were found in a shipping container at the Port of Tilbury in Essex, England.

A man has died and other people have been taken to local hospitals with “significant health problems” after 31 adults and children were found inside a shipping container at Tilbury Docks in Essex.

Each new England player underwent an induction when they met up with the squad at their Surrey training camp last week.

The Dutch coastguard is today resuming the search for seven missing crew members of a sunken cargo ship after a collision in the North Sea last night – but accepted the search is only to recover the bodies.

For the first time, people will be able to take a trip directly from an Irish port on a major cruise ship, courtesy of a deal between a travel agency and the Royal Caribbean International line.

Cigarettes worth €2.9m have been seized at Dublin Port, it has emerged.

Customs officers at Dublin Port have seized around seven million contraband cigarettes with an estimated retail value of €2.7m.

A strike over pension reforms by harbour pilots has largely paralysed traffic to the Belgian ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge.

RELATIVES of the eight people who lost their lives in the Wexford freight container tragedy returned to the south-east yesterday be commemorate its 10th anniversary.

IF GOODWILL was able to keep a ferry afloat then the Fastnet Line’s MV Julia could have ploughed through the most treacherous of waters.

TRADE is picking up across most sectors in the Port of Cork this year, with costly one-off competitiveness measures undertaken in 2009 already paying dividends.

The bosses of the UK’s six biggest energy firms face a grilling from MPs today as they seek to defend the price hikes imposed on millions of households across the country.

Millions of households faced further pain today after British Gas owner Centrica signalled it may have to make another hike in energy prices.

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

THE Port of Waterford company is bidding to boost its international appeal and attract even more foreign cargo into the thriving hub.

THE rising death toll could yet see the July 7 bombings join the grim list of largest losses of British lives since the Second World War.

Two people badly burned in a massive gas pipeline explosion in Belgium last week died of their injuries overnight, taking the death toll to 18.

A MASSIVE natural gas pipeline blast that could be felt six miles away killed at least 15 people and hurled bodies into a field near Brussels yesterday.

UK-based Ports and ferries group P&O said today its key Dover-Calais route had struggled to cash in on the peak tourist season.

PICKETS have been placed at one of the country’s busiest ports by disgruntled staff involved in a pay dispute.

An operation to remove the wreck of a huge car carrier which has blocked part of the English Channel for more than six months was due to move into its main phase today.

ONE of the men accused of the manslaughter of eight refugees found in a container in Wexford was missing on the final day of his trial in Belgium yesterday.

IT was supposed to be an escape to freedom. It ended up as a nightmare trip from hell.

A BELGIAN taxi driver admitted yesterday he has driven hundreds of illegal immigrants from the centre of Brussels to containers bound for Britain over the past few years.