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Paris, 2 February 2017

A cruise shipping strategy for Dublin
The International Transport Forum (ITF) releases a new study today on the impacts of cruise shippingon urban development in the case of the city of Dublin, Ireland.
Cruise passengers now represent 7% to 8% of the total number of tourists coming to Dublin, a sharethat has increased rapidly over the last decade. The value cruise tourism brings could be further
increased by developing Dublin into a cruise home port.
The report’s recommendations inlcude: Implement the Alexandra Basin Redevelopment Project: This project will provide newberths for cruise shipping. Developing more adapted infrastructure for cruise ships andpassengers is the primary concern to improve Dublin’s success as a cruise port. With approval
from the national planning authority granted, implementation could go ahead at full speed.
 Develop a joint cruise strategy for the whole city of Dublin: As part of such a strategy
Cruise Dublin could be promoted through joint marketing and communication of Dublin as acruise destination.
 Better exploit Dublin’s asset as a potential home port: In order to increase local economic
impacts of cruise shipping, Dublin’s assets as a potential cruise home port could be leveraged
and the facilities needed for realising such an ambition provided, including a cruise terminalbuilding structure.
 Resolve constraints related to cruise passenger flows: Solutions for alieviating constraints
include more parking spots for coaches and planning to ease passenger traffic flows between
the new cruise terminal and the city centre. The ambition should be to have these measures
implemented when the new cruise terminal becomes operational.
 Develop a green cruise port policy: This could start with a systematic monitoring ofenvironmental impacts of cruise ships, including air emissions, to be extended with mitigation
measures, such as incentive schemes for cleaner cruise ships.
The report “Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Dublin” can be viewed online anddownloaded from http://www.itf-oecd.org/cruise-shipping-dublin. The study was carried out as part ofa programme on cruise shipping and urban development at the ITF and was made possible by avoluntary contribution of Dublin Port Company.
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