Port move paves way for docks renewal

Tommy Barker, Property editor

The company is starting pre-planning work for a transfer to its Ringaskiddy land bank. It has been earmarked for investment in excess of E200m, said Port of Cork chief executive Brendan Keating.

And, in gradually vacating its operations by the Customs House, bonded warehouses (currently the centre of legal dispute), the north and south jetties and in Tivoli, it will free up strategically important sites for Cork city’s ambitious docklands renewal.