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 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),...
The Portuguese government adopts its new port strategy to create jobs and boost added value
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 28, 2017 – The Portuguese has announced a number of resolutions as part of a new ports strategy, which aim to...
Minister of the Sea to inaugurate four logistics operations centres in Leixões
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 26, 2017 – The Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino, was scheduled to visit the Logistics Platform of the...
Yilport criticizes lack of investment of Tertir’s previous owners
Tertir, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 23, 2017 – Yilport, part of Turkey’s Yildirim Group, and owner of the Tertir port operations that once...
Leixões port sees Jan-Oct 2017 freight traffic increase
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 19, 2017 – In the first 10 months of 2017, the Port of Leixões reported a handled freight volume...
Portuguese Minister of Economy visits Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – The Portuguese Minister of Economy visited the Leixões port on November 15 and praised the...
YIlport reviews its activities at Portuguese ports
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 1, 2017 – Yilport continues to make investments worldwide without slowing down. The growth strategy is not...
Leixões port passenger traffic rises 42% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 20, 2017 – Leixões port handled 83,120 passengers in the first nine months of 2017, up 42% on the year, recording...
Spain’s Friopuerto to present cold storage complex at Conxemar exhibition
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) October 4, 2017 – Spanish port-oriented temperature-controlled logistics services company Friopuerto plans to present the...
Leixões port to invest €2.2 million in dredging
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 25, 2017 – Leixões port’s main disadvantage against Spanish competitor Vigo is the shallow draft. The...
Yilport Leixões yields 11,900 TEU
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 22, 2017 – Between September 11-17, 2017, (week no. 37), Yilport Leixões received and operated 24 ships....
Leixões port keeps breaking container traffic records
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Leixões port keeps breaking records in the container traffic segment and managed to exceed 3,000...
Sines, Leixões, Lisbon ports are among top 200 largest container hubs globally
Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The Portuguese ports of Sines, Leixões and Lisbon are among the 200 largest container ports in the...
Portuguese cargo transport firms visit Leixões port
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Portuguese association of public transport carriers of goods ANTRAM and TCL – Terminal de...
Portuguese ports need to broaden their digital culture
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – It is not about having more or less container cranes, or the size of the dock to be ten or more metres...
Turkey’s Yildirim gains full control of Leixões port’s container terminal
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 – Turkish conglomerate Yildirim has just gained control of Leixões port’s container terminal, the...
Port of Leixões cargo throughput up 9% in first half 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 24, 2017 – In the first six months of this year, the Port of Leixões handled 9.7 million tons of commodities,...