Incentives for ferry operators to reopen link

THE Port of Cork, together with Associated British Ports, have agreed a joint package of incentives that will be presented to leading ferry operators in the hope of re-establishing the Cork-Swansea link.

Director of Swansea Port Matthew Kennerley, and his deputy port manager, Clive Thomas, said yesterday the loss of the route had hit the economy of south Wales equally hard.

It is estimated the south-west of Ireland lost €38 million in tourism revenue per year since the ferry service closed in 2006.