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.
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...
Portuguese seaports hit record-high cargo traffic in H1 2017
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – Portuguese seaports moved a record-high 48.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first half of the year, an...
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,...
Leixões port books best ever cruise traffic in May
Leixões, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 20, 2017 – Leixões port continues to book records surpassing the 29,000 passengers in 31 ship stopovers in the first...
Leixões port keeps 20% market share in Portugal in Jan-May 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 12, 2017 – Leixões port maintained its market share of 20% in Portugal in the first five months of 2017, the port...
Mozambique to cooperate with Portugal in maritime transport and ports
Porto, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 3, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the Mozambique Minister of Transport and Communications,...
Port of Leixões cargo traffic grew 10% in the first 5 months of 2017
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 26, 2017 – The Port of Leixões handled 8.1 million tons of commodities in January-May 2017, an increase of 10.3%...
Yildirim takes control of Leixoes container terminal operator
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – Turkish group Yildirim now owns 100% of the capital of Container Terminal (TCL), after the purchase of the...
Spain’s Indra installs port management system in Cyprus
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 14, 2017 – The Janela Única Portuária (JUP) port management system for ship and cargo clearance, developed in...
Portuguese stevedores not to service ships diverted from Spain
Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 17, 2017 – After the Spanish government approved a decree for the reform of the stowage sector and trade unions announced...
Leixoes port container traffic rises 4% y/y in Jan-Apr 2017
Leixoes, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 12, 2017 – Leixoes port container terminal handled 204,553 TEUs in the first four months of 2017, up 4% on the year....
Sines port handles 62% of entire Portuguese container traffic in Q1 2017
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 12, 2017 – The first quarter of the year brought more record TEU numbers to the Portuguese port system. And the container...
Leixoes port receives ISO 9001:2015 certificate
Leixoes, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 12, 2017 – Leixoes port has received a NP EN ISO 9001: 2015 certificate for the quality of all the services it...
Portuguese ports cargo traffic rises in Q1 2017
Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 10, 2017 – The Portuguese Mobility and Transport Authority (AMT-Autoridade da Mobilidade e dos Transportes) has released...
Leixoes port cargo traffic rises 7% y/y in Q1 2017
Leixoes, Portugal (PortSEurope) April 28, 2017 – Leixoes port handled 4.6 million tonnes of cargo in the first quarter of 2017, up 7% on the year, APDL –...