Most goods from China have stopped arriving in Ireland - representing 1,000 containers in weekly imports - and aren't expected to resume for several weeks. Dublin Port says 17pc of its usual imports have been "exposed to the impacts of the coronavirus". It declined to specify how sharp that impact has been or to indicate when normal inflows of Chinese goods might return. This lack of Chinese imports is spread among the three terminal operators responsible for offloading containers arriving from European ports: Doyle Shipping, Irish Continental Group and Peel Ports. "We would normally handle several hundred containers a week from China, but that has slowed to a trickle over the past few weeks," said the other.

Source: Irish Independent March 16, 2020 02:26 UTC