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.
Portuguese ports register over 12% fall in container cargo in 2019
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 26, 2020 – The commercial ports of mainland Portugal handled a total volume of almost 30.2 million tons of...
Portuguese ports see 6.2% fall in cargo in 2019
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 26, 2020 – The AMT – Mobility and Transport Authority (Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes) has...
Portugal and Netherlands consider consortium to produce green hydrogen in Sines
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 19, 2020 – The Portuguese and Dutch governments are discussing a joint plan to set up a renewable gas project in...
Lisbon saw registered 17% growth in cruise passengers in 2019
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 19, 2020 – The Port of Lisbon registered a 17% growth in the number of cruise passengers in 2019, totaling...
U.S. government and companies eye Sines port’s LNG potential
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 14, 2020 – U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette has visiting Sines port and confirmed interest in the LNG...
Portugal’s Sines port commences ambitious expansion works
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2020 – Work has started on the expansion of the Atlantic Ocean sea port of Sines, the first step to increase...
Viana do Castelo port set for role in the European Atlantis project
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 6, 2020 – Viana do Castelo is to be the headquarters of the European Atlantis project, the first...
Setúbal port sees higher cargo volumes in 2019
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 6, 2020 – 2019 was a year of growth for the Port of Setúbal, both in cargo volume and in the number of ships,...
Lisbon port promotes sustainability training
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 6, 2020 – The Port of Lisbon continues its sustainable and eco-efficient agenda, following the challenges of the...
Azores grants financial guarantee to local ports authority
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 8, 2020 – The government of the Azores has announced a €4.7 million grant guarantee to Portos...
YILPORT to continue to focus on growing logistics services in 2020
Yilport – Press Release – January 6, 2020 A subsidiary of YILPORT Holding, Transitex is a freight forwarder and logistics solutions provider...
Portugal: China will not be excluded from doing business in the country
Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Portugal will not exclude China from supplying technology for the...
Minister for Infrastructure and Housing visits Lisbon port at the premiere of the new regular container service
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) December 1, 2019 – The Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, has visited the Port of Lisbon today,...
Leixões grows 2% and moves 14.8 million tons of goods until September
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) December 1, 2019 – The Port of Leixões closed September with a positive development, registering an increase of...
Lisbon port supplies low sulphur fuel
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 19, 2019 – The M / V Antonia vessel is the first ship at Lisbon harbour to be supplied with marine fuel with a...
Portugal hosts Silk Road conference
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 16, 2019 – Last Wednesday, November 13, the 6th Portugal-China Gala was held under the theme ”Belt &...
EUROKAI Group reports Q3 2019 traffic numbers for container terminals
Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) November 14, 2019 – In the first three quarters of 2019, EUROKAI container terminals handled a total of 8.925 million...
YILPORT Leixões sees increased traffic in Jan-Aug 2019
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 7, 2019 – In the period January-August 2019 YILPORT Leixões reported year-on-year growth of 10.5%, while the...
Leixões port sees 2% cargo growth in Jan-Sept 2019
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 4, 2019 – In the first nine months of 2018, the Port of Leixões registered a total of 14.8 million goods...
Viana do Castelo port reports 19% rise in traffic in Jan-Sep 2019
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 24, 2019 – In the first nine months of 2019, the movement of goods in the port of Viana do Castelo grew...