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• Dublin's hauliers could lose business if plans are approved to build a rail link between the port and a new holding terminal outside the city.
Promoters claim it would reduce LGV traffic passing through the congested city centre, but the Irish Road Haulage Association insists that the link should take second billing to a new road tunnel. A rail link would do little to ease congestion, says the IRHA, as only 25% of traffic will be able to go by rail.
The application, lodged in March with Dublin County
Council, is for a development in West Dublin of more than 185,000m2 with a railfreight capability.
Former IRHA President Jimmy Quinn says the rail link could only hope to remove a quarter of the 4,000 vehicles leaving Dublin port daily, while the tunnel would re-route all of them.
Gerry Trywell, director of operations at Irish Express Cargo, one of the country's largest freight forwarders, says the park would add an extra cost to the transport system while offering no real benefit.