The port of Dublino will be equipped of a new terminal cruises



The port of Dublino has programmed the construction of a new terminal cruises that will be situated to east of the East Link Bridge. In order to get ahead the plan Dublin Port Company, in agreement with the administration of the Irish city, has purposely constituted the Cruise Dublin, joint venture with Dublin City Council and the Chamber of Commerce of Dublino that will have the task to promote and to develop the crocieristico traffic.

For the construction of the terminal an investment of 30 million euros is previewed. Dublin Port Company considers to complete the project within the end of this year for being able to complete the realization of the terminal in 2015.

The project is announced yesterday in occasion of the presentation of Dublin Port Masterplan 2012-2040 to the presence of the Irish minister of the Transports, tourism and the sport, Leo Varadkar. Dublin Port Company, society that manages the port, previews that for the entire implementation of the slowly thirty-year one they will be necessary beyond 600 million euros that the harbour company previews to finance with resources own. The society has already allocated 110 million euros for the investments previewed in the first five years of the Masterplan.

"This - minister Varadkar has commented - is a total plan for the development in the long term of the port of Dublino in its current positioning. As more important port of Ireland, the port of Dublino is part essential thing of our national infrastructure. It has a meaningful role to carry out for the increase of the exports, the increase of the places of work and also for the increase of tourism, than last year it has carried the ports of call of 87 cruise ships".

"The port of Dublino - City has confirmed manager of Dublino, John Tierney - always has been a key element of the economic infrastructure of the city of Dublino, facilitating the exchanges and supporting the occupation in the Capital. It is extremely important that appropriate structures and infrastructures are anticipate in the port of Dublino since the city looks to a future increase and to a development it is regarding the commerce so as tourism. In particular - it has added - the launch today (yesterday, ndr) of Cruise Dublin demonstrates as Dublin Port Company works with the municipal administration of Dublino and others in order to develop crocieristico tourism ulteriorly, that it has a great value".

Last year the port of Dublino has enlivened altogether 28,1 million tons of goods, a almost analogous volume to that of 2010. The cargo tons (+2.8%) and those disembarked 16,6 million tons (- 2.0% have been 11,5 million). The liquid bulk traffic is piled to 3,6 million tons (- 4.7%) and that of bulk sand banks to 1,6 million tons (+10.8%). The traffic of the rotabili has been of 725 thousand unit (726 thousand unit in 2010) and the traffic of the container is dropped of 5.1% to 526 thousand teu.

In the 2011 in the field of the passengers traffic of the regular lines it is diminished of 5.6% coming down to 1,7 million passengers, while the traffic of the cruises is increased of 7.5% to beyond 135 thousand fleeting.

The new Masterplan previews that in the 2040 Irish port it are able to enliven 60 million tons of goods, on the base of a annual increase of 2.5%.