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Porto (Oporto) is a coastal city in northwest Portugal, north of Lisbon.

Port of Leixões reports 10% passenger growth in H1 2024

Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 1, 2024 – In the first half of 2024, the Port of Leixões recorded 10% growth in the number of passengers and a...

YILPORT LEIXÕES posts record volume in first quarter 2020

Yilport Leixões (Porto, Portugal) handled 182.000 TEUs in the first quarter of 2020, increasing its volume by 8% compared to the same period of the previous...

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...

EU Cohesion funds allocated to Portugal’s Linha do Norte railway line

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 2, 2019 – The EU Cohesion Policy has announced investments of €4 billion ($4.48 billion) in 25 large...

MSC to build Portugal’s largest dry port

Lousado, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 30, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to build Portugal’s largest dry port through Medway,...

Portuguese Minister of Infrastructure will address the Salida Sur de Vigo with Spanish counterpart

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 24, 2018 – Vice president of the Eixo Atlántico, Luísa Salgueiro, mayor of Matosinhos, and the general...

Contract signed for construction work at Portugal’s Quebra-Mar de Angeiras fishing zone

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 3, 2018 – A contract for the construction of the maritime shelter work in the fishing zone of Angeiras (Quebra-Mar de...

Porto Cruise Terminal hosted the largest textile technology event in Portugal

Porto, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 2, 2018 – Porto Cruise Terminal has hosted from February 28 to March 2, 2018, the ItechStyle Summit , the...

Porto Cruise Terminal hosts “Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality” event

Porto, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 3, 2018 – On February 26, the Porto Cruise Terminal hosted the “Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality”, an...

Porto Cruise Terminal Welcomed 100 cruise calls in 2017

Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 18, 2017 – Cruise activity at the Porto Cruise Terminal recorded a new high in 2017, receiving 100 cruise calls,...

Port tech clusters part of Portugal’s ocean renewable energy strategy

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – The Portuguese government has announced its Industrial Strategy for Ocean Renewable Energies (EI-ERO),...

European Investment Bank: Portuguese ports private investment plan 2017-2019

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 12, 2017 –  The European Investment Bank (EIB) has given details of a project to expand the capacity of existing...

TEN-T – Connecting Europe – Core network corridors

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Networks) envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways,...

Spain’s Europac completes sale of Viana do Castelo port unit

Viana do Castelo, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Spanish company Papeles y Cartones de Europe S.A. (Europac) has completed the sale of Europac...

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