Throughput for the year 2009 was 26.502m tonnes, a 10.4% decrease on 2008. Imports made up 16.537m tonnes, a decrease of 12.1%. Exports fell to 9.965m tonnes, a decrease of 7.5%
A total of 7,379 vessels arrived in Dublin Port of which 7,170 were trading vessels. A total of 76 cruise liners visited the port in 2009.
In October Cobelfret commenced a new RoRo service to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. In August a twice weekly freight train service between Dublin Port and Ballina commenced.
Year | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 |
Total ('m tonnes) | 26.5 | 29.5 | 31.0 | 29.0 | 27.0 | 25.3 | 23.2 |
RoRo Units ('000) | 645 | 704 | 733 | 693 | 630 | 608 | 565 |
LoLo TEU's ('000) | 548 | 676 | 744 | 681 | 590 | 541 | 490 |
Liquid Bulk ('000) | 4051 | 4011 | 4100 | 4100 | 4000 | 3910 | 3400 |
Dry Bulk ('000) | 1583 | 2457 | 2500 | 2300 | 2100 | 1750 | 1700 |
Break Bulk ('000) | 102 | 160 | 70 | 73 | 90 | 87 | 100 |
Trade Cars ('000) | 32 | 101 | 141 | 128 | 137 | 124 | 100 |
Tourist Cars ('000) | 346 | 268 | 271 | 256 | 285 | 313 | 335 |
Passengers ('m) | 1.49 | 1.27 | 1.30 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.36 | 1.45 |