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.
Lisbon port handles 11% of Portugal’s harbour cargo traffic in Jan-Feb 2017
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – According to data released by the Portuguese Mobility and Transport Authority (AMT), the growth of each...
Setubal port among candidates for EDP Electricity and Environmental Award
Setubal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – Setubal port authority (Administração dos Portos de Setúbal e Sesimbra) is a candidate for EDP Energias...
Ilhavo mayor calls for more investment in Aveiro port
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – The mayor of Ilhavo municipality is satisfied with the way the relations with Aveiro port have evolved....
Portuguese ports traffic grows in February
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – Portuguese Mobility and Transport Authority released the results on port handling in February. The figures...
Portugal’s ports cargo traffic rise contrasts with road, rail throughput in 2016
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 14, 2017 – Preliminary data from Portugal’s National Statistical Institute (INE) for 2016 confirm the growth in...
Sines port keeps expanding
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Sines port maintains its growth in recent years and achieved the best quarter ever in 2017. With a total...
Siemens improves Sines port productivity
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 13, 2017 – Siemens, a German conglomerate company and the largest manufacturing and electronics company in Europe, has...
Positive container traffic trend continues at Las Palmas port
Las Palmas, Spain (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Container traffic continues its upward trend in Las Palmas port for the eighth consecutive month. The port...
Lisbon port to handle 17 turnaround cruise calls in April
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to handle 44 cruise calls in April, with 17 of them being turnaround, where cruises...
Leixoes port container traffic’s rise is constant
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 11, 2017 – The days when Leixoes Container Terminal reaches 3,000 TEUs or is very close, are becoming more frequent....
Eurogate Group presents its results for the 2016 financial year
Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – EUROGATEÂ Group today presented its results for the 2016 financial year – expansive business...
Portuguese minister visits Leixoes port stand at Intermodal Sao Paulo fair
Leixoes, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 23, 2017 – Portugal’s Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, visited the stands of Portuguese ports at...
Portugal’s A Silva Matos in talks to open industrial facility at Aveiro port
Aveiro, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – Aveiro port wants to attract companies and the negotiations with Portuguese company A Silva Matos– SGPS,...
OPDR starts regular line connecting Setubal to Spain
Setubal, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 6, 2017 – Setubal port sees its connections to southern Spain, the UK and northern continental Europe improved by OPDR...
Council of Europe approves European Union Port Services Regulation
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – The new European Union Port Services Regulation (PSR – Port Services Regulation) came into force after...
PSA International total container traffic rises 5.5% in 2016
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – PSA International, which is present in Portugal through the concession of Terminal XXI of Sines port,...
Portugal’s TSL to expand on Iberian peninsula
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 3, 2017 – Portugal’s youngest shipping company, TSL (Tejo Shipping Lines), established on January 20, and...
Lisbon announced as the venue for Seatrade Cruise Med 2018
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 29, 2017 –Â Seatrade has announced that Lisbon will be the 2018 venue for the largest cruise industry event...
OPDR starts operating container line linking Seville to UK
Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) March 28, 2017 – Seville port gains weight in the container business with the addition of a new service that will link...
Setubal exports last ten modules of HRSG generator via port
Setubal, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 20, 2017 – Alstom handled the export of the last ten modules of the Heat Recovery Stram Generator (HRSG) produced...