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.
Portugal’s Portusline launches Algeciras-Cape Verde service
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – Portuguese carrier PCI-Portusline Containers International SA has increased coverage of the islands of Cape...
Seville port recovers traffic thanks to new lines to Bilbao, Sines
Seville, Spain (PortSEurope) October 16, 2018 – Only a few months have passed since Seville port began to work with Bilbao and Sines, and...
Sines port linked to China’s Silk Road via new MSC rail link
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company is to launch a new rail service linking Spanish exporters, including...
WestMED: European Commission makes €1.4 million available for local support
Algiers, Algeria (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 WestMED: European Commission makes €1.4 million available for local support Meeting on 3 October in Algiers,...
Aveiro port seeks Salamanca rail connection
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 – The President of the Port Community of Aveiro, Nuno Pires, believes that the creation of a container...
PSA Sines to receive new crane equipment
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 14, 2018 – PSA Sines – Terminais de Contentores S.A., the concessionaire of Terminal XXI of the Port of...
Azores region to invest €32 million in Ponta Delgada port
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 11, 2018 – The Azores regional government plans to invest €32 million ($37 million) in the overhaul...
Ferrol port to handle 12 million tonnes of cargo in 2018
Ferrol, Spain (Ports Europe) October 10, 2018 – Ferrol port faces the fourth quarter of 2018 with the expectation of easily surpassing this year the...
Leixões port to obtain EU financing for container terminal dredging
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Leixões port has obtained financing to solve its main problem and the only competitive disadvantage with...
Environmentalists to protest against Setúbal port dredging project
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – Portuguese environmental associations Clube da Arrábida, Sado de Luto and SOS Sado and the fishing...
Portugal’s mainland ports traffic rises 1.3% in 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – Portuguese mainland commercial ports handled a record 89.2 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, 1.3% more than...
Portos dos Açores to invest €145 million until 2020
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Portos dos Açores SA, the operator of ports on Portugal’s Azores Islands, plans to...
Siemens presents Siharbour, a port energy supply system, at Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 7, 2018 – The German industrial conglomerate Siemens AG has presented its Siharbor system in Lisbon, a system...
Portugal working on the launch of a space port in Azores
Santa Cruz das Flores, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 3, 2018 – The Azores Islands regional government stressed today that a future space port on...
Leixões port to receive EU funding of €17.41 million
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 3, 2018 – The European Commission has proposed to invest €695.1 million ($804.7 million) in 49 key projects...
Viana do Castelo port wants to join Port Tech Cluster Network
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 2, 2018 – Viana do Castelo, in northern Portugal, is planning to create an “intelligent”...
Lisbon port receives Finnish delegation
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 1, 2018 – Lisbon port has received a visit from a delegation of 25 representatives from different sectors linked...
Dredging of Figueira da Foz port channel scheduled for final quarter of 2019
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 27, 2018 – In October 2018, the Port of Figueira da Foz plans to award a contract to dredge the...
AdSP Naples attends Seatrade Cruise Med event in Lisbon
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 26, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP – Centre-North...
Portuguese Minister of Infrastructure will address the Salida Sur de Vigo with Spanish counterpart
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Vice president of the Eixo Atlántico, Luísa Salgueiro, mayor of Matosinhos, and the general...