50 jobs to be lost as shipping company withdraws from Dublin port

ONE of the largest shipping companies operating out of Dublin has decided to withdraw from the port, with the loss of 50 jobs.

The Dutch company DFDS will withdraw from its Dublin-Birkenhead and Dublin-Heysham routes from the end of the month.

Last month the company, which also runs routes to Belfast, revealed that its Irish routes had lost more than €30 million over the previous two years. At that point it announced it was selling its Belfast routes to Stena Line and that it was going to conduct a review of the operations out of Dublin.