New figurers from the Central Statistics Office show that Irish ports handled 11.8 million tonnes of goods in the months of July, August and September last year - a decrease of 4% compared with the same time in 2022.
Goods forwarded from Irish ports amounted to 3.8 million tonnes in third quarter of 2023, while nearly 8 million tonnes of goods were received.
Today's figures show that the total number of vessels that arrived in the seven main Irish ports - Bantry, Cork, Drogheda, Dublin, Rosslare, Shannon and Waterford - during the third quarter of last year fell by 2% when compared with the third quarter of 2022.
Dublin Port accounted for 61% of all vessel arrivals in Irish ports and for 51% of the total tonnage of goods handled in the three month period under review.
The CSO said that Great Britain & Northern Ireland accounted for 38% of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports by region of trade in the third quarter, while EU countries made up 40% of the total tonnage of goods handled in the main ports.
