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Fresh setback for Belfast port road plan
[ August 13, 2018 // Chris ]A key road link for the port of Belfast is being delays because of procurement errors, reports the Freight Transport Association.
It says that the £130m York Street Interchange project says that the long-awaited improvement faced a further delay after the High Court ruled there were mistakes in the way the Department for Infrastructure appointed a contractor.
FTA says that when the scheme was first announced around nine years ago, local business involved in Transport of goods greeted the project with relief. It would relieve very high levels of traffic and reduce long delays
FTA adds: “Our concern now is that in the interim period of another delay, the project could suffer even more severe setbacks if that political agreement were to be compromised.
“The High Court ruling is the sole obstacle it now faces. If the scheme collapsed due to this procurement error, it would be a serious setback to the prosperity of the logistics sector, and in turn, the wider Northern Ireland economy.”