Irish trucking business head says ‘we have never seen anything like what is going on this week’
Holyhead Port: The threat to foodstuffs, medicines and the Christmas retail trade were the major dangers raised by the closure of the Dublin-Holyhead freight route. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images, an incident occurred at Holyhead Port causing damage to port infrastructure,” the operators of the Welsh facility said last Sunday.
The Irish Ferries service between Dublin and France was accommodated by sailing the Ulysses out into Dublin Bay to make room for the WB Yeats when it arrived from Cherbourg., one of the busiest times of the year for exporters and importers, not to mention the postal service.
“One of our customers produces mushrooms. You can’t tell them to stop growing. They are going to keep growing every night and have to be picked every day, and be got over to the UK,” he said. “We have offered extra sailings, where possible, and where it suits a shipping line. We haven’t had a request yet, but we have that capacity,” he said during the week.
“There have been repeated delays with large parts of the Mary Poppins set being shipped from the UK to Dublin,” the organisers said.
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