Portugal
Portugal is a country in Southwest Europe, West of Spain with an Atlantic Sea coastline, and member of the European Union. It includes the Azores and Madeira Islands. The country has a developed marine and transportation sector. Its top ports are Leixões, Lisbon and Sines. APP – Associação dos Portos de Portugal is an association which represents and promotes ports in Portugal.
Latin American diplomats visit Port of Sines
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 3, 2023 – On February 1, the Port of Sines welcomed a diplomatic delegation from Latin American Embassies in...
Port of Leixões received 112 cruise ship stopovers in 2022
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 30, 2023 – In 2022, the Port of Leixões received 112 cruise ship stopovers, surpassing the 101 stopovers...
Leixões Container Terminal implements NAVIS N4
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 26, 2023 – Leixões Container Terminal (TCL) has implemented NAVIS N4. the latest version of its operational...
Port of Leixões, first Portuguese port to obtain ISO 28000 Certification
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2023 – The Port of Leixões has become the first Portuguese port to obtain ISO 28000 Certification –...
MEDWAY improves port rail connections in Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 23, 2023 – The MEDWAY transport company will restart the Setúbal – Entroncamento – Leixões rail link during...
Sines Liquid Natural Gas Terminal records new annual activity records
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 19, 2023 – In 2022, the Sines Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal reached new all-time annual activity records, both...
Lisbon’s Alcântara Container Terminal to have first direct USA link
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 19, 2023 – The Alcântara Container Terminal will have the first regular transatlantic stopover to the...
Port of Sines LNG terminal breaks records in 2022
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 17, 2023 – The Sines Liquefied Natural Gas – Terminal de Gás Natural Liquefeito (GNL) de Sines Terminal,...
Port of Setúbal set for €114 million investment
Setúbal, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 17, 2023 – The Port of Setúbal is set for €114 million in investment projects. The port authority says it...
Port of Lisbon subject to cyber attack
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 5, 2023 – The Port Authority of Lisbon (APL – Administração do Porto de Lisboa) has been subject to a...
Port of Sines issues solar plant tender
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 4, 2023 – The Port of Sines has issued a public tender for the construction of a solar plant for self-consumption....
Portos dos Açores orders two Kalmar Eco reachstackers
Horta, Autonomous Region of the Azores, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 22, 2022 – Portos dos Açores has ordered two Kalmar Eco reachstackers. The...
YILPORT plans modernisation of Port of Setúbal terminal
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) December 13, 2022 – YILPORT, the international port operator of Zone 2 of the Multipurpose Terminal, says it has...
Ocean Network Express visits Port of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 25, 2022 – The CEO of ONE – Ocean Network Express, Jeremy Nixon, has visited the Port of Lisbon to view...
Neogreen Hydrogen to invest in green hydrogen plant in Sines, Portugal
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 14, 2022 – Canadian company Neogreen Hydrogen and local Frequent Summer are to invest more than €1 billion in a...
Cruise passengers in Port of Lisbon rise 139% in October
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 10, 2022 – Last October, the Port of Lisbon received 49 cruise stops, up +40% compared to the same month of...
Etermar joins BayWa in Viana do Castelo windfarm, Portugal
Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 10, 2022 – The local Etermar company joins Germany’s BayWa r.e. in the Viana do Castelo windfarm project....