Ferry News Archive
Celtic Link Ferries may leave Rosslare
Date: 01 Jun 2011 11:00 Source: Wexfordpeople.ieCeltic Link Ferries are threatening to pull out of Rosslare Europort unless CIE bring their charges into line with other ports around the country.
Local company Celtic Link Ferries are one of 3 major ferry companies currently operating out of Rosslare ferry port, along with Irish Ferries and Stena Line, and paid €1,546,000 in charges to the port last year.
Senior shareholder Willie O'Leary said the charges at Rosslare Europort - the only port run by CIE - are the most expensive in the country and he said Celtic Link Ferries, a Wexford company, may be forced to move elsewhere, having already received offers from Dublin, Cork and CRH (Concrete Road Holdings), who are developing a port at Arklow.
If Celtic Link were to leave Rosslare Europort it could immediately wipe out the port's profit, which was €1.6 million last year.
Mr O'Leary said that in Rosslare the cost of a truck and trailer coming in or leaving with Celtic Link is €54, while in Dublin - the country's biggest port - it's €26.
He said that even the argument that CIE provide equipment for unloading is not valid as private companies in Dublin charge €12 per trailer for that kind of service, making Dublin a total of €38, compared to Rosslare's €54.
He said Cork is even cheaper again and offered the company a year free if they signed up with them. CRH have also told Celtic Link they'll put a berth in place for them at their proposed Arklow port.
Mr O'Leary said that when Celtic Link Ferries took on the Rosslare Cherbourg ferryroute in 2005 the previous operator was generating income of €390,000 for the port.
He said that this has increased four-fold since Celtic Link Ferries put the Norman Voyager ferry on the route, as well as bringing in more business and passengers to the county, but that the management of the port are refusing to budge on the price, setting unrealistic growth targets for the company, during negotiations, for it to avail of any potential discounts.
Mr O'Leary said that while they don't want to leave Rosslare Europort, they may have to and admitted they have already spoken to their customers about the possibility. He said it they move Wexford will lose out'.
'Celtic Link Ferries will be going from Ireland to France, but we don't know if it will be from the port of Rosslare,' he said.
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