MOTORISTS should start to feel the benefits of improved driving conditions this coming weekend.
Limerick Port is to receive 4,000 tonnes of salt on Friday, which will then be distributed to local authorities around the country to fill the nation’s exceptional demand for road-gritting material.
The amount of salt imported through the port company terminal at Limerick over the last three weeks comes to12,000 tonnes.
Local authorities from the west, northwest, south and midlands are expected to take their allocation of the salt as soon as it is delivered to Limerick.
Limerick Port began to receive consignments of salt during Christmas week as a result of an agreement reached between Shannon Foynes Port Company and importers Lagan Ltd in the early part of 2009.
