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Big Box Milestone for Drogheda Port

Ireland's Drogheda Port hit the 500,000 TEU container handling mark for the first time last month, with the milestone box carrying nuts and dried fruit from Holland. 
The 500,000th box of the year was cause for festivities at Drogheda Port last month.
The 500,000th box of the year was cause for festivities at Drogheda Port last month.

The container was welcomed ashore by Drogheda Port chairman Patrick Traynor and the general manager of Europe Lines, Cameron McIntyre. 

The multi-modal East coast port currently operates regular container services to Rotterdam and Oslo from its Tom Roes Point facility, one of the most efficient and congestion free unitised terminals in the country.

Due to its success the current terminal is operating at close to capacity but the port company is in the process of developing a new deepsea unitised terminal at Bremore, within the greater Dublin area. The new terminal, one of the largest port infrastructural projects ever undertaken in Ireland, will have an annual capacity of 400,000 ro-ro units and 350,000 lo-lo units when it becomes operational in 2012.

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