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.
Porto Cruise Terminal Welcomed 100 cruise calls in 2017
Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cruise activity at the Porto Cruise Terminal recorded a new high in 2017, receiving 100 cruise calls,...
APSS audits its Environmental and Quality Management Systems
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 16, 2017 – APSS – Administração dos Portos de Setúbal e Sesimbra (Port Administration of Setúbal and...
World Economic Forum – Global Competitive Index 2017-2018 – Port Infrastructure
Geneva, Switzerland (PortSEurope) December 13, 2017 – The World Economic Forum reports that ten years on from the global financial crisis, the prospects...
Portugal hopes to award concession of Barreiro terminal in 2020
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 11, 2017 – The Portuguese government expects a concession of Barreiro multipurpose terminal at Lisbon port to be...
Azorean government provides €1.7 million guarantee to port operator
Ponta Delgada, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Azorean government has granted a guarantee of €1.7 million ($2 million) to the ports...
Leixões Cruise Terminal awarded by “O Norte Somos Nós”
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões (Leixões Cruise Port Terminal) has been awarded a...
Port tech clusters part of Portugal’s ocean renewable energy strategy
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Portuguese government has announced its Industrial Strategy for Ocean Renewable Energies (EI-ERO),...
Medway to launch regular freight rail line connecting Lisbon to Córdoba
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 7, 2017 – Portuguese freight rail operator Medway plans to launch a regular line connecting Lisbon to the Spanish...
Aveiro port signs wind tower production contract
Aveiro, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 5, 2017 – The Port of Aveiro Administration SA (APA – Administração do Porto de Aveiro) and ASM...
Portuguese government aims to develop SInes port LNG capacity
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 30, 217 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, has reaffirmed the Government’s intention to make...
The Portuguese government adopts its new port strategy to create jobs and boost added value
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – The Portuguese has announced a number of resolutions as part of a new ports strategy, which aim to...
Minister of the Sea to inaugurate four logistics operations centres in Leixões
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 26, 2017 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, was scheduled to visit the Logistics Platform of the...
Spain’s Renfe, Portugal’s Medway launch freight line linking Mérida hub to Sines port
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – Spanish state-run railway operator Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles (Renfe) and Portuguese...
Yilport criticizes lack of investment of Tertir’s previous owners
Tertir, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – Yilport, part of Turkey’s Yildirim Group, and owner of the Tertir port operations that once...
Leixões port sees Jan-Oct 2017 freight traffic increase
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – In the first 10 months of 2017, the Port of Leixões reported a handled freight volume...
Portuguese Minister of Economy visits Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – The Portuguese Minister of Economy visited the Leixões port on November 15 and praised the...
Global Ports Holding opens new cruise terminal at Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Global Ports Holding’s new cruise terminal building in Lisbon has been officially opened at a...
EUROKAI reports on south European container terminal performance – Q3 2017
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – In the first three quarters of 2017 the container terminals of the EUROKAI Group handled 10.9 million...
European Investment Bank: Portuguese ports private investment plan 2017-2019
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 12, 2017 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) has given details of a project to expand the capacity of existing...
Event: Porto de Setúbal – A solution for the Lisbon region, November 22, Setúbal
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – The Conference Porto de Setúbal – A solution for the Lisbon region | More Capacity, Greater...