Operator Capacity Route Frequency
Jenkinson Agencies 735 Dublin - Liverpool - Leixões - Castellon - Piraeus - Limassol - 1/10 days
Alex - Beirut - Ashdod - Haifa - Mersin - Salerno
Jenkinson Agencies 735 Dublin - Liverpool - Leixões - Castellon - Piraeus - Limassol - 1/10 days
Alex - Beirut - Ashdod - Haifa - Mersin - Salerno
Jenkinson Agencies 735 Dublin - Liverpool - Leixões - Castellon - Piraeus - Limassol - 1/10 days
Alex - Beirut - Ashdod - Haifa - Mersin - Salerno - Cardiff
Jenkinson Agencies 900 Dublin - Liverpool - Leixões - Castellon - Piraeus - Limassol - 1/10 days
Alex - Beirut - Ashdod - Haifa - Mersin - Salerno - Cardiff
Jenkinson Agencies 735 Dublin - Liverpool - Leixões - Castellon - Piraeus - Limassol - 1/10 days
Alex - Beirut - Ashdod - Haifa - Mersin - Salerno - Cardiff
Dublin – Antwerp (feeder)
MSC 880 (feeder service) Antwerp - Vigo- Leixões -Sines-Cadiz-Valencia 1/wk
Trade
Portugal has a population of approximately 10.7 million and a
geographic area of 92,391 km2. Portugal enjoys excellent The value of imports from Portugal to Ireland has more than
political, economic, diplomatic and commercial relationships doubled in the 1998-2006 period with total trade by value
worldwide as members of the OECD, IMF and NATO. reaching €231.7million in 2006. The upward trend buckled in
Ireland’s trade with Portugal is a relatively small market with 2007, however, when a sharp decline in imports was reported.
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total trade value in 2007of €570 million. Imports by value fell to €154.4million, close to their value in
2001. The two largest imported commodities by value in 2007
Since the end of 2004 the Portugese economy has experienced were electrical machinery, apparatus & appliances and non-
modest growth up to mid 2007. The GDP growth rate was 1.8 metallic mineral manufactures, representing €18.6million and
per cent in 2007, compared to an average EU27 growth rate of €17.5million respectively. Significant decreases were recorded in
fice
2.9 per cent. Portugal suffers from high unemployment with both footwear and articles of apparel, with imports falling from
workers having less formal education than other EU countries. €17.6million in 2006 to €16million in 2007 and €17.7million
The Portuguese government is attempting to boost the to €13million respectively. Textiles also fell noticeably from
economic competitiveness of the country and keep the budget €17.2million to €10million.
deficit within the 3 per cent of the EU ceiling as set by the
Maastricht Treaty
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The value of trade between Ireland and Portugal, although a
Although the Portuguese/Irish market is relatively small
small base, has performed robustly, despite small downturns in
compared to other trading partners within the EU, the
2003 and 2007. The total value of exports to Portugal in 2007
relationship between the two is very strong. Irish exporters find
was just over €414million, a 2 per cent decrease on the previous
it an attractive market due to the nature of the Portuguese and
year. The largest export commodity by value in 2007 at
their excellent command of the English language. Irish
€121.5million, was medical and pharmaceutical products,
exporters find that the smaller markets such as Portugal do not
accounting for 29 per cent of the market. Other commodities,
create as much competition as the larger markets, thus enabling
including office machines & automatic data processing
stronger business relations. As business relations strengthen
machines and meat & meat preparations, also ranked amongst
Enterprise Ireland offers advice to businesses seeking to invest
the highest value exported products, with shares accounting for
in Portugal. The Portuguese Embassy based in Dublin offers a
14 per cent and 12 per cent respectively. Office machines &
point of contact to foreign investors and members of the public
automatic data processing machines accounted for €57.3
on issues concerning the two nations.
million of exports while meat and meat preparations accounted
for €48.1million.
Portuguese Embassy
Address: Knocksinna House Knocksinna Foxrock Dublin 18
The volume of exports to Portugal amounted to 172,373 tonnes
Telephone: +35312894416, + 353 1 2893375
in 2007 By far the largest export commodity by volume in 2007
Fax: + 353 1 289 2849
was metalliferous ores and scrap metal accounting for 82 per
cent of the total, equating to approximately 143,000 tonnes.
Portuguese Shortsea Promotion Centre
The second largest commodity by export volume was meat and
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meat preparations accounting for 8 per cent of the total.
Irish Maritime Development Of
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