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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.

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...

YILPORT Holding reports cargo numbers for its terminals in 2019

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) March 5, 2020 – Last month, Yilport Holding has reported that its terminals globally handled 6.15 million TEU containers...

YILPORT Leixões sees 2.3% container growth in 2019

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 4, 2020 – YILPORT Leixões (TCL) has reported that in 2019 it handled 685,810 TEU, an increase of 2.3% (15,716...

Portuguese ports register over 12% fall in container cargo in 2019

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 26, 2020 – The commercial ports of mainland Portugal handled a total volume of almost 30.2 million tons of...

Leixões grows 2% and moves 14.8 million tons of goods until September

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) December 1, 2019 – The Port of Leixões closed September with a positive development, registering an increase of...

YILPORT Leixões sees increased traffic in Jan-Aug 2019

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) November 7, 2019 – In the period January-August 2019 YILPORT Leixões reported year-on-year growth of 10.5%, while the...

Leixões port sees 2% cargo growth in Jan-Sept 2019

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 4, 2019 – In the first nine months of 2018, the Port of Leixões registered a total of 14.8 million goods...

Boluda Lines to attend Fruit Attraction Fair

Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) October 15, 2019 – Boluda Lines, part of Boluda Corporación Marítima, will the attend Fruit Attraction fair taking place...

Portugal’s AMT publishes Port Market Monitoring Report – July 2019

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 3, 2019 – Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes (AMT) has published the Port Market Monitoring Report –...

Leixões Container Terminal sees increased container volumes

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 3, 2019 – TCL – Terminal de Contentores de Leixões, S.A., (Leixões Container Terminal) has reported that...

Yilport Leixões increases concession payments to government

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) September 16, 2019 – In the first quarter of 2018, Yilport Leixões paid concession charges to APDL – Administração...

China sends CCCME delegation to Porto

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) September 10, 2019 – A delegation from the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic...

July is the best month ever in Leixões – about two million tons of cargo handled

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) August 29, 2019 – The Port of Leixões has reported that it achieved a new monthly record in July with about two million...

Leixões port moves 9.5 million tons of cargo in first six months of 2019

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) August 27, 2019 – In the first half of 2019, 9.5 million tons of cargo were handled by Leixões port. Ro-Ro traffic...

Leixões provides logistical support in construction of floating offshore wind farm

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) August 5, 2019 – The Port of Leixões has hosted the Horizon Artic and Connector vessels operated by TCGL...

Portugal: a €68 million cohesion investment to upgrade the Minho railway line

Portugal: a €68 million cohesion investment to upgrade the Minho railway line – August 1, 2019 The Cohesion Fund is to invest almost €68 million in...

Leixões port provides logistical support in construction of an offshore floating wind farm

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 17, 2019 – The Port of Leixões has hosted the Horizon Artic and Connector vessels operated by Terminal De Carga...

APDL renews quality certification in all services and business units

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 17, 2019 – APDL – Administration of Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo, SA has renewed its...

Portuguese ports cargo traffic declines as crude oil imports fall

Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 14, 2019 – Portugal imported about one million tonnes of crude oil from January to April, 914,900 tonnes less, which...

US-based AGRO Merchants Group buys cold storage facilities at Valencia, Sines, Leixões ports

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) June 6, 2019 – US-based temperature-controlled storage and logistics company AGRO Merchants Group has completed...

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