Irish Examiner view: Ports continue to battle the Brexit storm

Goods shipped directly from Ireland to EU up by 50% in six months

Freight trucks disembark a Stena Ferry at Dublin Port.

The news that volumes of goods shipped directly from Ireland to other EU members have grown by 50% in the past six months is no great surprise. 

It wasn’t rocket science that exporters would find routes around the red tape barriers that Britain has erected through Brexit.