- Being an island, Ireland's only way of trading is through seaports and airports. Irish seaports handle 99.5% of Irish foreign trade (by volume).
- 90% of Ireland's GDP is exported - 42% of it through Dublin Port.
- Dublin Port is the second biggest industrial estate in Ireland with 4,000 people employed in the Port area.
- The largest cruise liner to dock in Dublin Port was the Grand Princess which visited the port in August 2004.This liner is 290 metres in length, has a gross tonnage of 108,000 tonnes and carried 4,000 visitors.
- Five ferry companies operate up to 15 sailings daily to the UK from Dublin Port.
- The "Great Eastern" then the largest ship in the world arrived in Dublin in October 1886, and remained here until April 1887 as a show boat, she had a chequered history, and is best remembered for laying the first transatlantic submarine cable from Valentia Island Co. Kerry to Hearts Content, Newfoundland, her chief officer for the project was Wicklow born Robert Halpin who later became Master at the age of 33.
- Capt Bligh of the "Mutiny on the Bounty" completed an accurate survey of Dublin Bay in 1800 and the map, which he oversaw the production of, was completed in 1803. It was the most accurate map of the bay up to that time and for many years to come. The Ballast board purchased 25 copies of the map for 20-16-00 and one copy of this map is in Dublin Port Company archives.
- 80% of all imports and exports through Dublin Port are transported in containers.
- Bull Island, with its 5.63km of beach, two golf courses and world famous bird sanctuary was created by the building of the Port's two walls - the Great South Wall and the North Bull Wall.
- Amost 50% of goods coming through Dublin Port is destined for areas falling within the M50 ring. The proportion increases to approximately 75% when the line is extended to an 80km (50 mile) radius of the city.
- Carlisle Bridge was built in 1794 and it was a narrow hump backed bridge leading on to the wide Sackville Street. The bridge was rebuilt in 1880 to the design of the Port engineer Bindon Blood Stoney. When completed it was renamed O'Connell Bridge after the liberator Daniel O'Connell. This bridge is quite unusual in that its width is almost the same size as its length.
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