The Port of Cork Company recorded traffic of 10.6 million tonnes, the highest annual throughput in the history of the Port Company.
This is the third year in a row that in excess of ten million tonnes of cargo has been handled.
The port's container traffic grew by eight percent increasing from 185,000 TEU's to a new record 200,000 TEU's.
The Port of Cork's Tivoli Container Terminal is the second busiest in Ireland in terms of the number of containers handled. Last year 118,000 boxes were shipped through the Port of Cork with most of the traffic destined to and from the mainland European ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugee on services operated by BG Freightline, Eucon Shipping and Transport, Eurofeeder, Samskip, APL and X-press container line.
Additionally, the Grimaldi-Euromed service offers weekly connections linking Ringaskiddy in Cork with Scandinavia, North West Europe and the Mediterranean.
The port continues to invest in facilities and machinery at Tivoli Container Terminal to ensure the high level of service for customers at the terminal is maintained.
Of the total throughput at the Port of Cork, oil traffic accounts for 57.4 percent of cargo handled and in 2007 oil traffic increased by 3 percent to 6.1 million tonnes, the bulk of which is processed through Conoco Philips' Whitegate Oil Refinery. Non-oil traffic also performed exceptionally well in 2007 at 4.5 million tonnes, an increase of 119,473 tonnes or 2.7 percent when compared with the same period in 2006. Increases were recorded in areas such as container traffic, cereals, coal, bulk cement, trade vehicles, molasses, timber and cruise traffic.
This is the third year in a row that in excess of ten million tonnes of cargo has been handled.
The port's container traffic grew by eight percent increasing from 185,000 TEU's to a new record 200,000 TEU's.
The Port of Cork's Tivoli Container Terminal is the second busiest in Ireland in terms of the number of containers handled. Last year 118,000 boxes were shipped through the Port of Cork with most of the traffic destined to and from the mainland European ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp and Zeebrugee on services operated by BG Freightline, Eucon Shipping and Transport, Eurofeeder, Samskip, APL and X-press container line.
Additionally, the Grimaldi-Euromed service offers weekly connections linking Ringaskiddy in Cork with Scandinavia, North West Europe and the Mediterranean.
The port continues to invest in facilities and machinery at Tivoli Container Terminal to ensure the high level of service for customers at the terminal is maintained.
Of the total throughput at the Port of Cork, oil traffic accounts for 57.4 percent of cargo handled and in 2007 oil traffic increased by 3 percent to 6.1 million tonnes, the bulk of which is processed through Conoco Philips' Whitegate Oil Refinery. Non-oil traffic also performed exceptionally well in 2007 at 4.5 million tonnes, an increase of 119,473 tonnes or 2.7 percent when compared with the same period in 2006. Increases were recorded in areas such as container traffic, cereals, coal, bulk cement, trade vehicles, molasses, timber and cruise traffic.