Editing Holyhead (section)

==Industry==
Until September 2009, Holyhead's main industry was the massive aluminium smelter on the outskirts of the town, operated by [[Anglesey Aluminium]], a subsidiary of [[Rio Tinto (corporation)|Rio Tinto]]. A large [[jetty]] in the harbour received ships from [[Jamaica]] and Australia, and their cargoes of alumina were transported on a rope-driven conveyor belt running underneath the town to the plant. The jetty is now available to dock visiting cruise ships.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anglesey.gov.wales/en/newsroom/news/acquisition-of-former-anglesey-aluminium-site-welcomed|title=Acquisition of former Anglesey Aluminium site welcomed|date=21 September 2022|publisher=Isle of Anglesey County Council|access-date=27 November 2022}}</ref>

The plant relied for its electricity supply on [[Wylfa nuclear power station]], near [[Cemaes Bay]]. However, Wylfa was reaching the end of its life and had permission to generate only until 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wylfa to continue generating until 2012|url=http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sc=2057790|work=Nuclear Engineering International|access-date=13 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305192914/http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sc=2057790|archive-date=5 March 2012}}</ref> On 18 October 2010, the British government announced that Wylfa was one of the eight sites it considered suitable for future nuclear power stations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nuclear power: Eight sites identified for future plants |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11564152 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 October 2010 |date=18 October 2010}}</ref>

Holyhead Port is a major employer, most of the jobs linked to ferry services to Ireland operated by Stena and Irish Ferries. Other significant industrial/transport sector employers in Holyhead include Holyhead Boatyard, Gwynedd Shipping and Eaton Electrical, with the last of these having seen many job losses in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/holyhead-factory-closure-could-put-2808756|title=Holyhead factory closure could put 265 jobs at risk|website=[[Daily Post (North Wales)|Daily Post]]|date=19 April 2013|access-date=26 May 2017}}</ref>

Until the end of 2020 the port, which employs 250 (in 2021), was the second busiest roll-on roll-off port in the UK after Dover with around 450,000 lorries taking ferries to Dublin. Following the [[Brexit withdrawal agreement]], freight traffic from Ireland fell by 50% in January 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Partridge|first=Joanna|date=20 February 2021|title=Ports feel the chill as trade re-routes around Brexit Britain|language=en-GB|work=[[The Observer]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/20/ports-feel-the-chill-as-trade-re-routes-around-brexit-britain|access-date=21 February 2021|issn=0029-7712}}</ref>