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Self-driving buses should soon be coming to the Belfast Harbour Estate. Officials from the harbour have visited automotive engineering partner HORIBA MIRA to observe testing of the Harlander, Northern Ireland’s first autonomous passenger vehicle, ahead of its delivery to Belfast in March.
Harlander is Northern Ireland’s first self-driving vehicle and will operate in Belfast Harbour Estate from Titanic Halt Railway station to Catalyst through Titanic Quarter.
Autonomous vehicles are able to within ...
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Northern Ireland Assembly Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd and Economy Minister Conor Murphy visited Belfast Harbour on 2 September for a briefing on its plans to redevelop its offshore renewable energy and cruise facilities.
The Ministers heard from Chair Dr Theresa Donaldson and Chief Executive Joe O’Neill about Belfast Harbour’s vision to ...
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Belfast Harbour cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 18% in 2023 and is expected to reach Net-Zero in its direct operations well ahead of its 2030 target.
Northern Ireland’s largest port launched its first Environmental, Social and Governance report on 5 August, stating that against the baseline year of 2015, it ...
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Belfast Harbour said its financial performance for 2019 was in line with expectations and provided a strong platform from which to respond to the challenges posed by Covid-19.
It reported turnover of £65.9m in the year to the end of 2019 (down 4%) and generated operating profits of £30.6m (down 15% ...
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Tonnage through Belfast Harbour during 2019 remained strong at over 24 million tonnes for the second year running.
Ro-ro units rose by 4% to a record 542,000, almost all of it on Stena Line’s routes to Scotland and England. Exports of stone by Co Down based Conexpo for GB and European ...
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Belfast Harbour increased its capital investment spending during 2018 by 24% to £52 million and is committed to a further £137 million of projects to turn it into a leading regional hub and develop the city’s waterfront, said the trust port in its latest annual report.
Investments were funded by a ...
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