High Court orders freight firm to remove shipping containers from Tesco lands in six weeks

Stateline Freight Limited was storing between 1500 and 2000 containers on lands where it lacks planning permission

The court heard the case arose after Tesco Ireland Limited entered into a 10-year lease agreement allowing Stateline to store between 1500 and 2000 containers, stacked in towers of five or more, at lands owned by the supermarket chain at Compass Distribution Park, in Santry in Dublin. File photo

The High Court has refused to grant a 12-month stay on an order requiring a freight company to cease storing shipping containers on lands where it lacks planning permission to carry out that activity.

The decision was made in proceedings where the company storing the containers, Stateline Freight Limited, had claimed that a failure to grant it time so it can make alternative arrangements have a major economic impact on importers and exporters using Dublin Port.