Ship a Pallet to Ireland

Ireland is a small country with some of the most concentrated industries in Europe, and pallets from Italy follow that geography. The most common cases:

Supplies for pharma in Cork and medtech in Galway

At Ringaskiddy, in Cork Harbour, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer manufacture; Pfizer runs one of the world's largest biotech sites at Grange Castle, on the edge of Dublin; Galway has 15,000 people working in medtech with Medtronic and Boston Scientific. Italy is among Ireland's main suppliers of medicines, and Italian companies in the supply chain ship packaging, line components, laboratory supplies and cleanroom furniture by pallet, with Medical Technology Ireland in Galway in September as the sector's trade fair.

Wine and food for Irish hospitality

Italian food exports to Ireland are worth around 300 million euro a year and growing; wine alone is over 60 million. The long-established importers are in and around Dublin: Little Italy on North King Street since 1976, Italicatessen in Wicklow, now part of the Musgrave group, plus the foodservice trade where the ICE keeps a showcase for Made in Italy. Wineries and producers ship pallets of wine, pasta, preserves and cheese all year round, with two peaks: the Borsa Vini Italiani in Dublin in January and CATEX, the hospitality show at the RDS, in February.

Machinery, switchgear and equipment for data centres

General-purpose machinery and electrical equipment are the biggest industrial items after pharma. Dublin is one of Europe's data centre capitals, and Riello UPS of Legnago has opened an Irish branch to serve them with uninterruptible power supplies, on show at DataCentres Ireland at the RDS in November. Packaging lines, components and control panels leave by pallet for Dublin, Limerick and Cork, and the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Expo in May is the engineering sector's date.

Materials for a country that is building

Dublin is in the middle of a construction boom, with tens of thousands of new homes a year and large office developments. Italian tiles, bathroom furniture, kitchens and furniture arrive by pallet at showrooms and building sites in the capital, where the Hardware Show at the RDS brings together the country's builders' merchants.

Whiskey and dairy on the way back

In the opposite direction Ireland exports pharmaceuticals, processed meat and whiskey to Italy, with sales in Italy growing fast: the Royal Oak distillery in Carlow belongs to Illva of Saronno. Traffic that keeps the lines full on the return leg too.