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.
Leixões port awards breakwater contract
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2020 – Within the scope of the planned Investment Plan, the Administration of the Ports of Douro, Leixões...
Yilport announces pandemic measures and emergency surcharge
Yilport Holding extends precautionary actions against COVID-19 pandemic and standardizes them in all 22 terminals across 10 countries – December 8, 2020...
Aveiro port to supply new eco fuel
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2020 – Prio’s biodiesel plant, based in the Port of Aveiro, is to produce Eco Bunkers, a green fuel for...
CIRCLE in joint venture agreement with Magellan, Portuguese entity delivering advocacy services
CIRCLE expands in the Iberian Peninsula through joint venture agreement with Magellan, Portuguese entity delivering advocacy services towards the European...
PSA Sines awards expansion contract
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 23, 2020 – PSA Sines, the concessionaire for Sines Container Terminal (Terminal XXI), has awarded the contract for...
Mainland Portuguese ports handled over 60 million tonnes in Jan-Sept 2020
Mainland ports recorded an increase of + 1.7% in September, compared to the same period of 2019. This growth was driven by most of the ports, especially Sines,...
Leixões and Setúbal set new TEU records in January-September 2020
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – In January-September 2020, Setúbal and Leixões ports registered containerised cargo increases of...
EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA – third quarter container traffic down over 9%
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 16, 2020 – EUROKAI GmbH & Co. KGaA has reported third quarter results showing reduced container throughput at...
CLdN to start Leixões port to Northern Europe service
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 7, 2020 – Starting this week, CLdN Cobelfret SA will again offer three departures from Leixões to Northern...
Eurokai Group sees reduced profit and cargo traffic in first half 2020
Hamburg, German (PortSEurope) September 30, 2020 – The Eurokai Group has reported operating earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) down by nearly 70%...
Yilport Leixões reinforces market share
News – Yilport Leixões reinforces market share – September 23, 2020 Between January and July, the handling of containers in Portugal’s...
Ajaccio declaration after the 7th Summit of the Southern EU countries (MED7)
Ajaccio declaration after the 7th Summit of the Southern EU countries (MED7) – September 10, 2020 1. We, the Heads of State and Government of Cyprus,...
PSA Sines issues expansion tender
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) August 12, 2020 – PSA Sines, the concessionaire for the Container Terminal of the Port of Sines (Terminal XXI), has...
Port of Viana do Castelo makes debut in supplying natural gas to ships
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 31, 2020 – The port of Viana do Castelo has become the first port under the management of Administração dos Portos...
Port of Leixões reports increased traffic in first half of 2020
In the first half of 2020, the Port of Leixões broke a record never reached in exports, when moving 2.7 million tons of goods abroad, which represents a...
Yilport Leixões reports record May
In the first five months of the year, the Leixões Container Terminal handled 301,007 TEU, a result that is an absolute record for the period in question...
Atlantic action plan 2.0: A revamped maritime strategy to foster a sustainable blue economy and the EU Green Deal
The European Commission has adopted an updated action plan for a sustainable, resilient and competitive blue economy in the EU Atlantic area, covering France,...
Leixões port launches new connection to Belgium
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 3, 2020 – Operated by CLdN and Yilport Leixões, the new service will provide access to new routes with origin and...
Beato’s Multipurpose Terminal (TMB) reinforces operational capacity
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 3, 2020 – TMB (Terminal Multiusos do Beato) has purchased on a rental basis a Liebherr LHM 280, with a capacity of...
Figueira da Foz Port grows 17.3% in Jan-May 2020
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 3, 2020 – In the period January-May 2020, the port of Figueira da Foz handled total cargo of 875,741 tons,...