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’s dredging project depends on archeology
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 9, 2018 – Leixões port ensures that everything is in place for launching public tenders for the upgrade of port...
New Portimão-Madeira ferry link inaugurated
Portimão, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 7, 2018 – The new Portimão-Madeira ferry link has been inaugurated which could foresee the development...
ACP criticises government stance on Leixões port expansion
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 5, 2018 – Yesterday, the Commercial Association of Porto (Associação Comercial do Porto – ACP) issued a...
Leixões port sees increased cargo traffic in first half of 2018
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2018 – In the first half of 2018, 9,978,313 tonnes of goods were handled by Leixões port, a year-on-year...
Funchal port handles only one cruise ship in June
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 30, 2018 – Funchal port recorded the worst performance in June, since 2012, regarding cruise ship traffic,...
Trade union FNSTP says stevedores strike has limited effect on Portuguese ports
Lisbon, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – The National Federation of Port Workers’ Unions (FNSTP) today assured that the “national...
Portuguese stevedores to carry out 24-hour strike at eight ports
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 26, 2018 – The workers of eight Portuguese ports, affiliated with the Stevedoring and Logistics Activity Union (SEAL),...
Leixões port sees increased cruise traffic in first half 2018
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Between January and June of 2018, more than 50,000 tourists passed through Leixões port via cruise...
Portugal unveils regular Portimão-Funchal sea link
Portimão, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 19, 2018 – Portugal’s Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, visited Portimão for the reception ceremony of...
Portuguese port operators cancel salary increase of dockers
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – The Association of operators in the port of Lisbon declared the agreement concluded with the stevedores union...
Leixões port to invest €1.6 million in improving Douro river navigation
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões SA has signed an order for the project in the...
Ericeira port dredging to be completed by end-July
Ericeira, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – The dredging of the Portuguese port of Ericeira, an investment of €532,098 ($622,875) to solve the...
Portuguese stevedores to strike on July 27
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – Portuguese dockers have called a 24-hour strike from July 27 at the ports of Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines,...
CLdN to modify line linking Santander port to northern Europe
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – The regular service that CLdN Cobelfret SA, started two years ago in Santander and that offers two weekly...
Olinto Ravara appointed to presidency of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz ports
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 10, 2018 – Olinto Ravara has been appointed president of the Board of Directors of Administração do Porto de Aveiro...
Portugal approves cooperation agreement on ports with Mozambique
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 6, 2018 – Portugal’s government has approved a cooperation agreement in the field of maritime transport and ports...
Aveiro port operator names interim president
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 6, 2018 – Olinto Ravara has assumed the position of president of APA – Administração do Porto de Aveiro, SA, the...
Hapag-Lloyd to carry out first call of AL6 service in Lisbon on July 6
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – German company Hapag-Lloyd AG has said that on July 6 Lisbon port will receive the first call of a service...
Stevedores approve pre-agreement with Lisbon port operators
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 5, 2018 – According to the blog “The Estivador” of the Stevedores Union and Logistics Activity (SEAL),...
Madeira government calls for government support for Portimão link
Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – The president of the Madeira regional government, Miguel Albuquerque, has called on the central...