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.
Figueira da Foz port commences dredging work
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – Surveys for the deepening of the navigation channel and interior area of ​​Porto...
Sines port hosts VI APIBARRAÂ (Association of Bar and Port Pilots) conference
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 – On November 9, 2017, at the APS – Associação dos Portos de Portugal Auditorium in Sines, the...
Sines port promotes sardine sustainability
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 11, 2017 –Â The Portuguese Secretary of State for Fisheries has said in the port of Sines that Portugal is...
Transitex launches LCL service connecting Iberian peninsula to Latin America
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Transitex, a subsidiary of the Turkish group Yilport, has announced the start of a “less than...
Portuguese port authority signs agreement with Logink of China
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 3, 2017 – Administração dos Portos de Sines e do Algarve (APS – the Ports Authority of Sines and Algarve)...
Port of Leixões receives delegation from Mozambique
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – On October 6, the Port of Leixões was visited by a delegation from the Ministry of Economy and...
Global Ports Holding to open new state-of-the-art terminal in Lisbon Cruise Port
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Global Ports Holding, the operator of Lisbon Cruise Terminal, will soon open it new terminal at the...
Lisbon port container traffic rises 38% in Jan-Sep 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Lisbon port handled 373,121 TEUs in the first nine months of 2017, an increase of 38.3% over the like...
Portuguese ports delegation visits China
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 29, 2017 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, is leading a delegation of 39 Portuguese companies...
Leixões port passenger traffic rises 42% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Leixões port handled 83,120 passengers in the first nine months of 2017, up 42% on the year, recording...
“DocksTheFuture” project included in Horizon 2020 approved transport projects
Brussels, Belgium (Ports Europe) October 8, 2017 – The EU Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA) has announced that 27 projects have been...
Huelva-Zafira rail line’s traffic exceeds expectations
Huelva, Spain (Ports Europe) October 5, 2017 – Huelva port promotion association HuelvaPort has said the cargo traffic of the railway line connecting the...
Spain’s Friopuerto to present cold storage complex at Conxemar exhibition
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Spanish port-oriented temperature-controlled logistics services company Friopuerto plans to present the...
Leixões port to invest €2.2 million in dredging
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – Leixões port’s main disadvantage against Spanish competitor Vigo is the shallow draft. The...
Yilport Leixões yields 11,900 TEU
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Between September 11-17, 2017, (week no. 37), Yilport Leixões received and operated 24 ships....
Leixões port keeps breaking container traffic records
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Leixões port keeps breaking records in the container traffic segment and managed to exceed 3,000...
Azores, Canary Islands to enhance port, air transport synergies
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – The Azores and Canaries Islands have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which,...
Azores Islands’ ports to handle 54 cruise calls Sep-Dec 2017
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – The first week of September marks the return of cruise ships to the Azores. Portos dos...
Lisbon port to handle 55 cruise calls in September
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 55 calls of cruise ships in September, one-third of which will...
New environmental study for proposed Barreiro Container Terminal in Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 –Â The current environmental impact assessment of the Barreiro Container Terminal will be stopped and a...