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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.

Yildirim criticises Portuguese strike rules, slow investment decisions

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 28, 2019 –  Turkey’s Yildirim group has criticised the government’s delay in giving the green light to the...

Lisbon port’s container traffic keeps declining in Jan-Feb 2019

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 9, 2019 – Lisbon port’s container traffic continues to decline in the first two months of 2019, recording a...

Portugal to invest €6.1 billion in its ports by 2023

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 17, 2019 – Portugal’s government has presented a Stability Program that foresees investments of more than €8.6...

Leixões port set for significant investments

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – The Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo Ports Authority (APDL) has launched the public tender for...

Turkey’s Yilport aims to bring Leixões port’s capacity close to Sines

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 25, 2019 – Leixões container terminals will be able to grow 153% over the next two years, given that the Turkish...

Leixões port aims to compete with Barcelona, Valencia

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 13, 2019 – Vigo is not the only target of Leixões port’s offensive in container traffic. Until now it was...

Yilport Holding reports 5% increase in container throughput for 2018

Istanbul, Turkey (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 Yilport Holding has reported a 5% year-on-year increase in container throughput for the full year of 2018....

Portugal expects new investment project at Leixões port to be announced soon

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 11, 2019 – A few minutes had passed since the end of the presentation of the Reconversion Project of the Container...

Leixões port to receive €379 million of investment by 2030

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 18, 2019 – Leixões port expects to receive a €379 million ($432 million) investment by 2030 to become a...

Labour conflict causes decline in container traffic at Setúbal port

Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2018 – Labour instability has resulted in heavy losses in container handling in October in the ports of Lisbon,...

AutoEuropa to use Leixões port as alternative to Setúbal for car exports

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Portuguese automotive assembly plant operator AutoEuropa Automóveis, Lda., part of Volkswagen...

Yilport Leixões awarded Best Container Terminal Operator

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Yilport Leixões has once again been awarded Best Container Terminal Operator in Portugal at...

Leixões port handles Volkswagen vehicles

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Leixões port has started receiving vehicles from Volkswagen AG’s Autoeuropa car plant in...

Portugal endorses railway terminal upgrade tender at Leixões port

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 6, 2018 – Portugal’s government has authorised state-owned enterprise Infraestruturas de Portugal...

Portugal to tender first phase of Leixões port expansion by end-2018

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 2, 2018 – Portugal’s government plans to launch until December 2018 the public tender for the extension of...

Portuguese minister says Leixões port expansion will be completed by 2024

Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 26, 2018 – In August this year, the Commercial Association of Porto (ACP) said it feared that the compliance with...

Leixões port to obtain EU financing for container terminal dredging

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Leixões port has obtained financing to solve its main problem and the only competitive disadvantage with...

Portugal’s mainland ports traffic rises 1.3% in 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 9, 2018 – Portuguese mainland commercial ports handled a record 89.2 million tonnes of cargo in 2017, 1.3% more than...

Leixões port to receive EU funding of €17.41 million

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 3, 2018 – The European Commission has proposed to invest €695.1 million ($804.7 million) in 49 key projects...

Yilport contributes to increased traffic at Leixões port

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 22, 2018 – In the first seven months of the year, Leixões port handled 11.4 million tonnes of general cargo,...

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