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The 19th edition of the Irish Maritime Transport Economist, a report produced by the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) on Ireland’s maritime freight industry, has been published today.
EALING Mid-Term Event on 29th April 2022 at 10:00 a.m. CEST

Hamilton Shipping is recruiting a Port Agency Assistant

In this framework, our overarching aim is the implementation of the INTERNATIONAL FAST AND SECURE TRADE LANE (IFSTL) approach, a trade facilitation initiative in the form of a set of harmonised and interoperable tools (business process modelling, software solutions, operational guidelines and governance models) on Motorways of the Sea routes connecting Ireland with France, the UK and other European countries.
Progress
The IFSTL project has five distinct phases that involve:
1. The articulation of the AS IS scenario

The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan TD, announced the commencement of the Maritime Area Consent (MAC) Regime. The new regime enables the Minister, on an interim basis, to issue Maritime Area Consents (MACs) to renewable energy developers who meet the relevant assessment criteria. Developers must have a Maritime Area Consent to make an application for permission, to include environmental assessments, to An Bord Pleanála.

This is the fastest rate of growth in the index since 2017, and represents a return to the volumes of freight handled in 2018 and 2019 after the suppressive effect of the COVID-19 on port traffic. Just over 54 million tonnes of freight were handled at Irish ports in 2021, a 2.8 million-ton increase compared to 2020.
In the Dry Bulk market, a 10% annual increase compared to 2020 was almost entirely driven by coal. As stated in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland’s (SEAI) annual report;

Background
The MaRITeC-X project is a seven-year Horizon 2020 Teaming project (project number 857586). Teaming projects create new or update existing centres of excellence in Widening countries through a coupling process with leading scientific institutions. The centre under development is the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), a center of Excellence in Marine and Maritime Research, Technology Development and Innovation.

Maritime Expert Ireland have vacancies for cargo surveyors in liquid and dry bulk cargos.

From 14th January 2022, Unifeeder Shortsea will be launching a new service linking Rotterdam to/from the ports of Dublin, Cork and Belfast – with connections into the entire network of Unifeeder in Europe.

Mainport, as Agents for Unifeeder, are pleased toa nnounce an additional port call to their existing feeder service.

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The Port of Cork and Independent Container Line (ICL) jointly celebrated the shipping services first year in operation, in what can be described as a record first year. The direct deep-sea route which operates between Cork and US (East Coast) is the only direct route out of Ireland connecting to the USA.

The event is taking place online from 9.45am - 13.00 GMT on 8th July 2021

The Horizon Europe Partnership will invest up to 3.8 billion EUR in research and innovation

The EU Atlantic Action Plan, through its Assistance Mechanism, is currently organising the first in a series of workshops from Pillar I for the 12th May 2021 from 9:30 – 12:45 GMT.

The Grimaldi Group will operate a twice-weekly feeder ro-ro service between Ireland and Belgium as of May 2021

In its first post-Brexit quarterly review of port volumes, the Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO) offers the most comprehensive overview on maritime traffic on an all-island basis.

Smart and Sustainable Maritime Transport in the Atlantic and North Sea Region Post-Brexit Joint workshop organised by the European TEN-T Coordinators For the Motorways of the Sea and the Atlantic and North Sea-Mediterranean Corridors
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