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Leixões

The Port of Leixões is one of Portugal‘s major seaports, located 4 km north of the mouth of the Douro River, in Matosinhos municipality, near the city of Porto. The port is the home to the Porto Cruise Terminal and Yilport Leixões.

Port of Leixões will become the first port with zero emissions by 2035

The plan, which will be detailed this year, foresees decarbonisation and energy self-sufficiency, 15 years before the deadline set by the EU – April 26,...

State-of-the-art railway equipment arrives in Portugal via Porto de Leixões

This week, the Multiusos South Terminal of the Port of Leixões received the disembarkation operation on a Ro-Ro ship and preparation for road transport in...

Kalmar and Yilport strengthen long-term collaboration with a large new order for mobile equipment solutions

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded a large order from YILPORT Holding Inc. for 27 new Kalmar machines: 11 reachstackers, four empty container handlers and...

‘Bluetech’ made it possible to reduce 13,000 tons of CO2 in Leixões, Douro and Viana ports

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 8, 2021 – The Ministry of the Sea has reported that the ‘Bluetech Accelerator’ program has...

Port Authority of Leixões plans tender for new container terminal

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – The Port Authority of Leixões has said that the tender for the new container terminal will be issued...

Portuguese ports move over 75 million tons by November 2020

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – Between January and November 2020, ports on mainland Portugal handled a total of 75.09 million tonnes,...

Contract for the extension of the outer breakwater and maritime accessibility of the Port of Leixões awarded

APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões SA has signed the contract for the contract for the extension of the breakwater abroad and the...

Leixoes port – the Single Logistics Window – extending digital coverage to logistic chains

The Single Logistics Window – Extending Digital Coverage to Logistic Chains – January 21, 2021 Current JUL context At the moment, the project to...

Leixões port offers new UK & Ireland Ro-Ro service

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – The Administration of the Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (APDL) has announced the debut...

APDL and ANTRAM sign a protocol for decarbonization of the ports of Leixões and Viana do Castelo

Reducing the number of more polluting trucks circulating in port infrastructures, starting in 2021, will represent a 50% reduction in pollution The...

For the 10th consecutive year APDL successfully obtains the Quality Certificate awarded by Lloyd’s

In 2020, APDL successfully obtained, for the 10th consecutive year, the attribution of the Quality Certificate of an international nature, and, in this history...

Leixões port awards breakwater contract

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2020 – Within the scope of the planned Investment Plan, the Administration of the Ports of Douro, Leixões...

Mainland Portuguese ports handled over 60 million tonnes in Jan-Sept 2020

Mainland ports recorded an increase of + 1.7% in September, compared to the same period of 2019. This growth was driven by most of the ports, especially Sines,...

Leixões and Setúbal set new TEU records in January-September 2020

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – In January-September 2020, Setúbal and Leixões ports registered containerised cargo increases of...

CLdN to start Leixões port to Northern Europe service

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 7, 2020 – Starting this week, CLdN Cobelfret SA will again offer three departures from Leixões to Northern...

Yilport Leixões reinforces market share

News – Yilport Leixões reinforces market share – September 23, 2020 Between January and July, the handling of containers in Portugal’s...

Port of Leixões reports increased traffic in first half of 2020

In the first half of 2020, the Port of Leixões broke a record never reached in exports, when moving 2.7 million tons of goods abroad, which represents a...

Yilport Leixões reports record May

In the first five months of the year, the Leixões Container Terminal handled 301,007 TEU, a result that is an absolute record for the period in question...

Leixões port launches new connection to Belgium

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 3, 2020 – Operated by CLdN and Yilport Leixões, the new service will provide access to new routes with origin and...

Leixões port increases 12.7% in first quarter

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 21, 2020 – In January-March 2020, the Port of Leixões handled 5.3 million tons of cargo, up 12.7% compared to...

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