Editing Rosslare Europort (section)

==Port details==
At Rosslare, Iarnród Éireann is an infrastructure provider and operator, providing port facilities and related services, including [[stevedoring]], to shipping lines. Rosslare Europort is operated as a Common User Terminal, meaning that the port authority carries out all stevedoring activities on a common user basis for all shipping lines using the port.

The import and export of motor vehicles (trade cars) is one of the most important trades of the port.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rosslareeuroport.ie/en-ie/freight/trade-cars |title=Trade Cars |access-date=11 December 2020 |archive-date=28 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028030635/https://www.rosslareeuroport.ie/en-ie/freight/trade-cars |url-status=live }}</ref>  In excess of 25,000 vehicles are handled per annum.  The importer depot is in [[Rosslare Harbour]] Village.

The port can accommodate cruise liners.  Rosslare Europort was included in the 2020 schedule of the Phoenix Reisen-owned liner MS ''Deutschland''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rosslare Europort (Ireland) |url=https://www.cruisemapper.com/ports/rosslare-europort-port-1272 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129053619/https://www.cruisemapper.com/ports/rosslare-europort-port-1272 |archive-date=Nov 29, 2020 |website=CruiseMapper}}</ref>

An all-weather [[RNLI]] lifeboat is on station, and the [[Irish Coast Guard]] helicopter at [[Waterford Airport]] provides [[air-sea rescue]] cover.<ref>[http://www.rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/ireland/stations/RosslareHarbourWexford/ Lifeboat Station : Rosslare Harbour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014183949/http://rnli.org.uk/rnli_near_you/ireland/stations/RosslareHarbourWexford/ |date=14 October 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.waterfordairport.ie/ns/content/view/54/110/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118190333/http://www.waterfordairport.ie/ns/content/view/54/110/|url-status=dead|title=The Airport Company|archivedate=18 November 2007}}</ref> An automatic [[weather station]] is maintained adjacent to the port by [[Met Éireann]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.met.ie/about/weatherobservingstations/rosslare.asp |title=Weather Observing Stations – ROSSLARE |access-date=23 November 2007 |archive-date=7 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507165136/http://www.met.ie/about/weatherobservingstations/rosslare.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The port area is largely on [[reclaimed land]]. Reclamation work continued to the late 1990s when the northwest part of the port was constructed using a [[dragline]]. Modernisation of facilities has continued to encourage the increase in cars carried on the ferries despite a drop in foot passengers.

Rosslare has also handled rolltrailer traffic in the recent past, when Cobelfret operated a service from Rosslare to Zeebrugge/Rotterdam (October 2008 to September 2009). Rolltrailers enable the carriage of lift-on lift-off (LoLo) traffic on roll-on roll-off (RoRo) ships.

Rosslare Europort is the second most strategically important seaport in the state after Dublin. It is the second-busiest port in terms of ship visits and gross tonnage, and handles more unitised freight than any other Irish seaport except Dublin – in fact, Rosslare handles more unitised freight than all other seaports in the state, excluding Dublin, put together. Unitised freight is important because all of the high added-value exports on which Ireland's economic recovery depends are exported as unitised freight.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

Rosslare Europort 2020 yearly figures are as follows: 810,000 passengers, 130,000 freight units and 515,710 tonnes of freight.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rosslareeuroport.ie/en-ie/about |title=Europort website |access-date=28 December 2020 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127141824/https://www.rosslareeuroport.ie/en-ie/about |url-status=live }}</ref>