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.
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,...
Leixões port operates normally despite dockworkers’ strike
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Leixões port authority (Administração do Porto de Leixões ) has assured that it is operating...
Las Palmas port authority president takes part in Blue Growth event
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – The president of Las Palmas port authority (Autoridad Portuaria de Las Palmas), Luis Ibarra and its...
Yildirim analyses investment in Praia da Vitória harbour in the Azores
Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Turkey’s ambassador to Portugal, Mehmet Hasan Gogus, has visited the Portuguese port of...
Portuguese prime minister promotes Sines port for the new Silk Road
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Portuguese prime minister António Costa insisted today on the “leading position” of the port of...
Ecoslops announces doubling of production and second innovative technology
Paris, France (PortSEurope), July 4, 2017 – Ecoslops, an innovative technology company that upgrades ship-generated hydrocarbon residues into valuable new...
Mozambique to cooperate with Portugal in maritime transport and ports
Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the Mozambique Minister of Transport and Communications,...