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30/03/2011

Galway Port To Welcome Luxury Liners

Some of the biggest cruise liner companies in the world may soon include the planned new Galway Port on their travel itinerary.

A proposed €200m port redevelopment is progressing rapidly with a recent cruise ship convention in Florida prompting representatives of 'The World' - the biggest residential cruise ship on the seas - to show strong interest in docking there.

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According to the website www.unearthore.com Galway Port now anticipates such liners docking in the city by 2015.

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

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.

(BMcC/GK)

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