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.
Port of Leixões handled 15.2 million tons of cargo in 2021, down from 17 million tons
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) February 7, 2022 – The Port of Leixões handled 15.2 million tons of cargo in 2021, compared to 17 million in the...
Leixões Cruise Terminal forecasts 143 cruise ship visits by the end of 2022
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 10, 2022 – The Leixões Cruise Terminal received, January 2, the visit of the ship AIDAsol, which is the first...
New A-RTGs started operations at YILPORT Leixões Terminal
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 23, 2021 – As part of the redevelopment of the South Container Terminal, the three new A-RTG (rubber tired...
National Safety Authority visits the Port of Leixões
APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo, S.A has received, September 13th, in the Port of Leixões, a visit of the...
Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) to invest €4 million in Port of Leixões rail connections
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 3, 2021 – Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) has announced that it will invest €4 million to improve rail...
Portuguese ports see sharp rise in May cargo traffic
Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 29, 2021 – Total cargo handled mainland Portuguese ports in totaled 7.6 million tons in May, an increase of 36.4%...
Port of Leixões will become the first port with zero emissions by 2035
The plan, which will be detailed this year, foresees decarbonisation and energy self-sufficiency, 15 years before the deadline set by the EU – April 26,...
Kalmar and Yilport strengthen long-term collaboration with a large new order for mobile equipment solutions
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded a large order from YILPORT Holding Inc. for 27 new Kalmar machines: 11 reachstackers, four empty container handlers and...
‘Bluetech’ made it possible to reduce 13,000 tons of CO2 in Leixões, Douro and Viana ports
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 8, 2021 – The Ministry of the Sea has reported that the ‘Bluetech Accelerator’ program has...
Port Authority of Leixões plans tender for new container terminal
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 29, 2021 – The Port Authority of Leixões has said that the tender for the new container terminal will be issued...
Portuguese ports move over 75 million tons by November 2020
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 21, 2021 – Between January and November 2020, ports on mainland Portugal handled a total of 75.09 million tonnes,...
Contract for the extension of the outer breakwater and maritime accessibility of the Port of Leixões awarded
APDL – Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões SA has signed the contract for the contract for the extension of the breakwater abroad and the...
Leixoes port – the Single Logistics Window – extending digital coverage to logistic chains
The Single Logistics Window – Extending Digital Coverage to Logistic Chains – January 21, 2021 Current JUL context At the moment, the project to...
Leixões port offers new UK & Ireland Ro-Ro service
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) January 6, 2021 – The Administration of the Ports of Douro, Leixões and Viana do Castelo (APDL) has announced the debut...
APDL and ANTRAM sign a protocol for decarbonization of the ports of Leixões and Viana do Castelo
Reducing the number of more polluting trucks circulating in port infrastructures, starting in 2021, will represent a 50% reduction in pollution The...
For the 10th consecutive year APDL successfully obtains the Quality Certificate awarded by Lloyd’s
In 2020, APDL successfully obtained, for the 10th consecutive year, the attribution of the Quality Certificate of an international nature, and, in this history...
Mainland Portuguese ports handled over 60 million tonnes in Jan-Sept 2020
Mainland ports recorded an increase of + 1.7% in September, compared to the same period of 2019. This growth was driven by most of the ports, especially Sines,...