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.
Setúbal port strike causes diversion of ships to Leixões
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – The protest of workers in Setúbal port, which has lasted for more than a week, has already prevented...
Setúbal port strike affecting local Volkswagen facility
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 15, 2018 – Volkswagen AG’s is one of the locally-operating companies which is being affected by a port...
Agepor association criticises port strikes
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 13, 2018 – “Agepor (Association of Shipping Agents of Portugal) notes that there is no port work at the...
Portugal’s Construções Amândio Carvalho to build road access to Viana do Castelo port
Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 9, 2018 – The City Council of Viana do Castelo has unanimously approved the contract award of the...
Setúbal port authority holds public forum to support dredging activity
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 – APSS – Admin. dos Portos de Setúbal e Sesimbra, SA (Port Administration of Setúbal and...
Portugal endorses railway terminal upgrade tender at Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 – Portugal’s government has authorised state-owned enterprise Infraestruturas de Portugal...
Portugal to tender first phase of Leixões port expansion by end-2018
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – Portugal’s government plans to launch until December 2018 the public tender for the extension of...
Figueira da Foz port approves development projects
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – Administração do Porto da Figueira da Foz, S.A., manager of Figueira da Foz port, has...
Figueira da Foz and Aveiro ports see rising traffic in August and consolidated year-on-year
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – In August 2018, the ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz reported increases of +26.5% and...
Figueira da Foz port issues tender for construction of a new multipurpose building
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – The administration of the port of Figueira da Foz has launched the tender for the construction...
Storm damage in excess of €5 million in the port area of Figueira da Foz
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – According to a preliminary survey of the damages concluded on June 16, Storm Leslie caused...
Azores Islands government to invest €20 million in Horta port
Horta, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 31, 2018 – The Azores Islands government plans to invest €20 million ($22.6 million) in the port of Horta,...
Portuguese minister says Leixões port expansion will be completed by 2024
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 26, 2018 – In August this year, the Commercial Association of Porto (ACP) said it feared that the compliance with...
Portuguese seaport see reduced cargo in Jan-Aug 2018
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – In the first eight months of 2018, Portuguese seaports handled a total of 62.9 million tons of cargo,...
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...