Belfast Transport & Travel

Telecoms Infrastructure

• Fully fibred backbone based on SDH technology offering links of 2.4 GB per second and expandable up to 100 GB per second
• Dual and triple routing and fully digital switching, which ensure the highest levels of resilience and reliability.
• Connect to Europe in 20 millisecs and the East Coast, USA in 80 millisecs.
• More than 60 telecom service providers
• Costs are highly competitive and amongst the lowest in Europe.

Transport Infrastructure

• Two modern airports within 20 minutes of the city centre.

• Hourly flights to London as well as direct flights to other European cities.

• New direct routes to USA and Canada.

• From the Port of Belfast, 80 international shipping lines provide freight access

• Enhanced road network reduces congestion.

Domestic:

• London
• Glasgow
• Edinburgh
• Manchester
• Birmingham
• Leeds Bradford
• Liverpool
• Bristol
• Newcastle
• Norwich
• Inverness
• Cork 

International:

• Brussels
• Prague
• Paris
• Nice
• Malaga
• Alicante
• Barcelona
• Amsterdam
• Geneva
• Palma Majorca
• Toronto
• New York
• Rome
• Berlin

Belfast International Airport already serves over 75 destinations worldwide, with almost 4.5 million passengers using the airport each year.

Belfast City Airport recently recorded its 2 millionth passenger.

The estimated spend from visitors to Belfast in 2003 was £232 million and numbers increased by 47%. A trend that has continued.