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 breaks monthly cargo traffic record in July
Figueira da Foz, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 14, 2017 – Figueira da Foz port handled 229,252 tonnes of cargo in July, up 6.38% on the year. The figures...
Chinese ambassador visits Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 8, 2017 – The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Cai Run, visited Setúbal port on August 4, and...
Lallemand Iberia starts exports from Setúbal port
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 7, 2017 – Setúbal port has seen its partner Lallemand Iberia S.A. carry out the first export of Soluble Must...
Timor-Leste delegation visits Lisbon port
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Timor-Leste will soon have a new deepwater harbour, the port of Tibar, and the managers responsible for...
Lisbon port to handle 24 cruise calls in August
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to receive 24 cruise calls in August, two more than in the same month last year,...
Madeira government cancels ferry tender
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – The government of Madeira has cancelled the announcement concerning the public tender, published in the...
Drewry foresees global demand increase in sea cargo traffic of up to 4% in 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – According to the latest report from consultancy Drewry Shipping, a strong growth in freight traffic was...
Portuguese seaports hit record-high cargo traffic in H1 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – Portuguese seaports moved a record-high 48.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year, an...
Madeira government to launch tender for ferry services to mainland Portugal
Funchal, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – The regional government of Madeira is finalising the launch of an international tender for a weekly ferry...
Portugal introduces radar module of Costa Segura system
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The Minister of National Defense, José Azeredo Lopes and the Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino,...
Portugal looks for new Silk Road role
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 25, 2017 – Following the Portuguese prime minister’s visit to China in 2016, the first memorandum of...
Port of Leixões cargo throughput up 9% in first half 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – In the first six months of this year, the Port of Leixões handled 9.7 million tons of commodities,...
Lisbon port receives Saudi Port Authority delegation
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Lisbon port received a delegation of two representatives from the Saudi Port Authority, namely the...
Leixões port books best ever cruise traffic in May
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Leixões port continues to book records surpassing the 29,000 passengers in 31 ship stopovers in the first...
Sines port reports improved H1 2017 cargo throughout
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 14, 2017 – Sines port has closed the first six months of 2017 with a total of 25.8 million tons of cargo handled,...
LNG has huge potential as marine fuel in the Iberian Peninsula
Oslo, Norway (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – With the global fuel sulphur limit of 0.5% entering into force in 2020, the interest towards LNG as a marine...
Leixões port keeps 20% market share in Portugal in Jan-May 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Leixões port maintained its market share of 20% in Portugal in the first five months of 2017, the port...
Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...
Sines port to have railway link to Madrid long before Algeciras
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Sines port is one of the main beneficiaries of the isolation of the port of Algeciras from Madrid due to lack...
Algeciras port to join Silk Road conference in Ningbo, China
Algeciras, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Algeciras port will participate in the International Forum on Maritime Silk Road Port Cooperation in Ningbo,...