Cork Port suffers setback to €226m Ringaskiddy plans

THE Port of Cork has suffered a setback to its plans to open a €226 million container terminal at Ringaskiddy in 2011.

The blow came when National Roads Authority officials told a Bord Pleanála hearing yesterday that at best it could start the vital upgrading of the Cork-Ringaskiddy road (N28) in 2011, and it would take a further two years to complete.

The Port of Cork management has previously stated it would not make the container terminal operation until the N28 was in place.