Some of the biggest cruise liner companies in the world, which carry hundreds of thousands of passengers each year, want to include the planned new Galway Port on their travel itinerary.

At a cruise ship convention in Florida last week, representatives of ‘The World’ – the biggest residential cruise ship on the seas, expressed strong interest in docking here.


Meanwhile, plans for the €200 million redevelopment of Galway Port are progressing rapidly, with liners expected to be docking in the city by 2015.

A planning application for the new Galway Port under Strategic Infrastructural Development legislation is expected to be lodged in May or June, 2011 at the moment, the Harbour Company is assessing a preliminary report from An Bord Pleanála.

According to www.unearthore.com The project, which will be completed in four phases over seven years, will see the creation of a new ‘Waterfront City’, with up to 200,000 tourists arriving each year on around 50 cruise liners.

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