Louth's Greenore Port handles 318,000 tonnes as national port traffic dips
Greenore’s 318,000 tonnes of traffic included 167,000 tonnes of trade with EU ports
The latest quarterly port traffic figures, published by the CSO, show that Greenore handled 40 vessel arrivals between January and March, with a combined gross tonnage of 336,000.
Greenore’s 318,000 tonnes of traffic included 167,000 tonnes of trade with EU ports, 144,000 tonnes involving ports outside Europe, and 7,000 tonnes of trade with Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The figures come as the overall volume of goods handled at Ireland’s eight main ports fell by 2% in the first quarter of the year.
Commenting on the release, Damien Lenihan, Statistician in the Transport Division, said:
“Irish ports handled 12.7 million tonnes of goods in January, February, and March (Q1) 2026. This was a decrease of 2% compared with Q1 2025.
Goods forwarded from Irish ports amounted to 4 million tonnes in Q1 2026, while 8.7 million tonnes of goods were received.
In Q1 2026, 2,499 vessels arrived in Irish ports compared with 2,577 in Q1 2025 (See Table 2).
Dublin Port accounted for 1,523 (61%) vessel arrivals in Irish ports and for 6,169,000 (49%) of the total tonnage of goods handled in Q1 2026 (See Tables 2 and 5 respectively).
Great Britain & Northern Ireland accounted for 4,112,000 (32%) of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports by region of trade in Q1 2026. EU countries accounted for 6,366,000 (50%) of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports.”