Imports and Exports Data

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Questions (133)

Peadar Tóibín

Question:

133. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Taoiseach if he will provide in tabular form the annual volume of freight exports and imports that came through the local ports between 2004 and 2014. [40708/14]

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Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

Data on tonnage of goods handled by Irish Sea Ports is collected by the CSO on a quarterly basis. The data is compiled and published on an annual basis in the 'Statistics on Port Traffic' publication. The most recent year for which data is available is in respect of 2013. The following table illustrates the tonnage of imported goods and exported goods by Irish Ports between the years 2004 to 2013.

Table : Tonnage of goods imported and exported by Irish Sea Ports, 2004-2013

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Port	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Goods imported
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13
Bantry Bay	256	411	547	626	466	379	586	712	1,614	804
Castletownbere	-	-	-	18	25	17	26	26	31	33
Cork	5,863	6,351	6,278	6,669	6,229	4,900	5,324	4,706	3,939	5,376
Drogheda	958	1,098	1,058	922	562	486	406	301	403	397
Dublin	12,377	13,159	14,500	15,154	14,504	12,546	12,531	12,110	12,351	12,263
Dundalk	329	311	355	310	166	198	129	100	66	72
Dun Laoghaire	98	97	56	45	39	11	2	5	0	2
Galway	703	617	445	404	261	293	320	243	110	40
Greenore	661	646	866	790	699	390	494	356	370	383
Killybegs	9	12	5	6	32	8	1	2	10	0
Kilrush	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kinsale	126	124	170	144	133	143	156	111	115	9
New Ross	891	713	599	584	473	402	421	322	260	327
Rosslare	1,061	1,871	1,316	1,405	1,294	1,062	1,154	978	779	820
Shannon Foynes Port	8,730	9,354	9,269	8,860	8,475	5,899	7,012	7,766	8,146	8,306
Sligo	53	29	32	31	16	31	34	25	19	32
Tralee Fenit	-	0	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Waterford	1,538	1,470	1,603	1,652	1,542	1,232	1,152	1,056	885	1,051
Wicklow	235	282	297	221	85	53	48	30	28	21
Youghal	67	100	113	138	86	26	61	66	64	103
Total	33,957	36,644	37,510	37,981	35,087	28,076	29,860	28,914	29,191	30,051
Goods exported
Arklow Port	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bantry Bay	372	726	633	739	515	435	574	305	190	408
Castletownbere	-	-	-	2	23	-	-	-	0	0
Cork	2,517	2,754	2,556	2,528	2,531	2,309	2,423	2,871	2,917	2,409
Drogheda	292	272	193	90	94	54	87	169	544	636
Dublin	5,361	5,720	6,111	6,352	6,474	5,891	6,688	7,188	7,422	7,094
Dundalk	20	7	35	58	52	24	11	7	-	19
Dun Laoghaire	62	59	25	16	10	3	0	7	0	1
Galway	35	32	37	47	63	37	38	43	72	92
Greenore	-	3	2	-	1	-	8	6	3	0
Killybegs	53	35	23	55	67	53	72	32	117	64
Kilrush	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	2
Kinsale	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
New Ross	206	238	190	133	171	81	15	16	-	-
Rosslare	1,112	1,248	1,428	1,521	1,427	1,266	1,348	1,213	1,084	1,120
Shannon Foynes Port	1,759	1,901	1,992	2,060	2,078	1,237	1,881	1,972	1,725	1,713
Sligo	19	6	11	15	25	22	21	21	15	2
Tralee Fenit	9	9	12	18	14	17	12	19	24	26
Waterford	641	623	608	600	530	399	252	126	70	145
Wicklow	-	-	-	-	-	20	41	69	46	121
Youghal	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	15	9	5
Total	12,458	12,632	13,858	14,234	14,075	11,847	13,473	14,080	14,240	13,856