{"id":272514,"date":"2026-01-07T16:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/272514\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:51:06","slug":"holyhead-port-temporarily-closed-due-to-berthing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/272514\/","title":{"rendered":"Holyhead Port temporarily closed due to berthing incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holyhead Port in Wales has been temporarily closed due to a &#8220;berthing incident&#8221; earlier today involving a ferry.<\/p>\n<p>Stena Line confirmed the facility, which is a key piece of infrastructure for Irish exports from Dublin, is shut.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2024 a berth at the port called T5 was damaged in a storm and has remained closed pending repairs but is expected to reopen soon.<\/p>\n<p>The incident this morning affected the T3 berth.<\/p>\n<p>Stena, which owns the port, is expected to issue an update later this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The port handles 1.8 million passengers, 400 cars and 400,000 freight units every year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A berthing incident occurred on Wednesday January 7, 2026 as the Stena Estrid berthed at Holyhead Port,&#8221; a statement from Stena Line said this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Passengers have disembarked as normal and the incident is currently being investigated,&#8221; Stena said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holyhead Port is temporarily closed and ferry operators are notifying customers. Further updates will be provided,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holyhead Port in Wales has been temporarily closed due to a &#8220;berthing incident&#8221; earlier today involving a ferry.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-272514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115854854440229346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}