Portugal
Portugal is a country in Southwest Europe, West of Spain with an Atlantic Sea coastline, and member of the European Union.The country has a developed marine and transportation sector. Its top ports are Leixões, Lisbon and Sines.
The ports are divided into “mainland ports”, such as Lisbon, and ports on the offshore islands of Madeira and the Azores. APP – Associação dos Portos de Portugal is an association which represents and promotes ports in Portugal.
YILPORT Sotagus Terminal, Lisbon, carried out a unique materials operation
The YILPORT Sotagus Terminal, in Lisbon, carried out a unique operation of handling 2,000 tons of calcium carbonate and silica additive – April 6, 2021...
Portugal’s Vasco da Gama Terminal project to be delayed
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 8, 2021 – The deadline for submitting proposals for the international tender procedure for the Vasco da Gama...
PSA manager speaks at Portuguese Freight Forwarders Association event
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 25, 2021 – Nuno Carlota, Procurement and Business Director at PSA, has attended the digital event Conversas de...
Sacyr Somague and Sacyr Neopul win contract to modernize railway connection between Sines and the southern line
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 22, 2021 – Sacyr Somague and Sacyr Neopul have been awarded the contract for the modernisation of the railway...
Kalmar and Yilport strengthen long-term collaboration with a large new order for mobile equipment solutions
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded a large order from YILPORT Holding Inc. for 27 new Kalmar machines: 11 reachstackers, four empty container handlers and...
‘Bluetech’ made it possible to reduce 13,000 tons of CO2 in Leixões, Douro and Viana ports
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 8, 2021 – The Ministry of the Sea has reported that the ‘Bluetech Accelerator’ program has...
Port Authority of Leixões plans tender for new container terminal
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – The Port Authority of Leixões has said that the tender for the new container terminal will be issued...
Boluda Towage acquires Dutch Towage & Salvage Company Iskes
Vicente Boluda Ceballos, Boluda Towage SL, and Jim Iskes has today signed in Amsterdam an agreement with the Dutch family-owned Towage & Salvage company,...
Minister of Maritime Economy of Cape Verde visits Lisbon port
Cape Verde’s Minister of Maritime Economy, Paulo Lima Veiga, visited the Port of Lisbon earlier this week, accompanied by the vice-president of Grupo ETE...
Portuguese ports move over 75 million tons by November 2020
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – Between January and November 2020, ports on mainland Portugal handled a total of 75.09 million tonnes,...
Contract for the extension of the outer breakwater and maritime accessibility of the Port of Leixões awarded
APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões SA has signed the contract for the contract for the extension of the breakwater abroad and the...
Leixoes port – the Single Logistics Window – extending digital coverage to logistic chains
The Single Logistics Window – Extending Digital Coverage to Logistic Chains – January 21, 2021 Current JUL context At the moment, the project to...
Sines port sees 13% increase in containerized cargo in 2020
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – The Port of Sines ended 2020 with a 13% increase in containerized cargo compared to the previous year...
Portuguese and Greek Prime Ministers visit EMSA
Prime Minister António Costa of Portugal and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece visited the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon today,...
Silopor Trafaria receives record corn unloading
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – The Trafaria Food Bulk Terminal, operated by SILOPOR, is a terminal specialized in the reception of...
Sines port seeks to develop Brazil connections
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – CPLS – Sines Port and Logistics Community (Comunidade Portuária e Logística de Sines) has signed...
Tender issued for concession of the port of Recreio de Sines
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – Administration of the Ports of Sines and the Algarve (APS) has issued a public tender for the concession...
Leixões port offers new UK & Ireland Ro-Ro service
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – The Administration of the Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (APDL) has announced the debut...
APDL and ANTRAM sign a protocol for decarbonization of the ports of Leixões and Viana do Castelo
Reducing the number of more polluting trucks circulating in port infrastructures, starting in 2021, will represent a 50% reduction in pollution The...
For the 10th consecutive year APDL successfully obtains the Quality Certificate awarded by Lloyd’s
In 2020, APDL successfully obtained, for the 10th consecutive year, the attribution of the Quality Certificate of an international nature, and, in this history...