Port Masterplan review is launched

DUBLIN Port has launched an update of the long-term development plan for the port first published in 2012. 

‘Masterplan 2040 Reviewed 2018’ sets out four key changes to the port’s development plans:

• The port will now be developed based on an average annual growth rate of 3.3 percent from 2010 to 2040 rather than the 2.5 percent originally proposed in 2012.

• The capacity of the port will be increased to cater for a growth to an ultimate capacity of 77m gross tonnes by 2040 rather than the 60m gross tonnes as originally proposed in 2012.

• This will be accomplished with no further infill into Dublin Bay. The option of increasing port capacity by an eastwards expansion into Dublin Bay has been definitively ruled out.

• Where Masterplan 2012-2040 had envisaged deepening the port ultimately to 12.0m, this will not now happen and the current works to deepen the port to 10.0m will be the final deepening of Dublin Port. 

This is the end of a process which commenced in the 18th century with the completion of the Great South Wall.