We’ve reached a milestone at Shannon Foynes Port, not just for ourselves as a port company, the estuary or wider region but also the nation and, indeed, Europe, with the launch of our updated masterplan Vision 2041 by Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan, TD last week. The report, which was carried out by global experts Bechtel, supports the development of offshore wind and explains how the deep waters of the Shannon Estuary – almost unrivalled in a European context – would not only facilitate the deployment of floating offshore wind at scale from Europe’s best wind regime on Ireland’s west coast but help decongest the Irish supply chain through the provision of road and rail linked container services.
Here’s a video that synopsizes the huge significance around the opportunity here.