Development of direct maritime connections from Ireland

Financial Times reports that connections between Ireland and the Continent are being expanded in order to allow traders to avoid delays across the landbridge in the aftermath of Brexit.

FT reports that the Irish Maritime Development Office, has advised exporters and importers to examine alternatives to the land bridge since 2019.

DFDS, the Danish operator of the new service, aims to displace a significant portion of the 150,000 shipments on the land bridge. “We obviously need to eat into that to a relatively large extent,” said Torben Carlsen, chief executive of DFDS. “We probably need 40,000-50,000 of those movements to make this route viable.”