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.
CLdN updates regular service at Santander port
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) September 19, 2018 – Luxembourg-based shipping company CLdN Cobelfret has updated its regular service started two years...
Leixões port new container terminal crucial for competitiveness
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 17, 2018 – The construction of a new container terminal in Leixões, to cope with the continuous growth of...
Leixões port waste collection declines in H1
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 3, 2018 – The collection of waste produced in Leixões port decreased in the first half of the year, although the...
Portugal’s Irmãos Cavaco delays payment of compensation to former workers
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 16, 2018 – Portuguese construction company Irmãos Cavaco SA, declared insolvent in 2017, said it was late in...
Minimum service maintained in Portuguese port strike
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2018 – Minimum service is operating at Portuguese ports during the labour strike organised for August 13 to...
Leixões port’s dredging project depends on archeology
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 9, 2018 – Leixões port ensures that everything is in place for launching public tenders for the upgrade of port...
ACP criticises government stance on Leixões port expansion
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 5, 2018 – Yesterday, the Commercial Association of Porto (Associação Comercial do Porto – ACP) issued a...
Leixões port sees increased cargo traffic in first half of 2018
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2018 – In the first half of 2018, 9,978,313 tonnes of goods were handled by Leixões port, a year-on-year...
Trade union FNSTP says stevedores strike has limited effect on Portuguese ports
Lisbon, Spain (Ports Europe) July 27, 2018 – The National Federation of Port Workers’ Unions (FNSTP) today assured that the “national...
Portuguese stevedores to carry out 24-hour strike at eight ports
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 26, 2018 – The workers of eight Portuguese ports, affiliated with the Stevedoring and Logistics Activity Union (SEAL),...
Leixões port sees increased cruise traffic in first half 2018
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2018 – Between January and June of 2018, more than 50,000 tourists passed through Leixões port via cruise...
Portuguese port operators cancel salary increase of dockers
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – The Association of operators in the port of Lisbon declared the agreement concluded with the stevedores union...
Leixões port to invest €1.6 million in improving Douro river navigation
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 18, 2018 – APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões SA has signed an order for the project in the...
Portuguese stevedores to strike on July 27
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 16, 2018 – Portuguese dockers have called a 24-hour strike from July 27 at the ports of Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines,...
CLdN to modify line linking Santander port to northern Europe
Santander, Spain (Ports Europe) July 13, 2018 – The regular service that CLdN Cobelfret SA, started two years ago in Santander and that offers two weekly...
Consenza hosts “Smart port management & efficiency” event
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) July 12, 2018 – Making the ports “greener” during the stop of the ships and other issues will be discussed...
Delegation of Namibia visit the port of Leixões
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 2, 2018 – Possible partnerships between Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo SA (APDL...
Companies may leave Leixões port over BIP problems
Vigo, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2018 – Several of the Vigo-based companies that unload their cargo at Portugal’s Leixões harbour are considering...
Tarros, Arkas start operating new lines with calls in Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 18, 2018 – Leixões port has started handling regular connections with ports in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt...
Italy’s Tarros improves service linking La Spezia to Eastern Mediterranean
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) June 15, 2018 – Italian multimodal transport company Tarros SpA has recently updated its “GPS – Great Pendulum...