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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...