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Lisbon is a seaport and capital of Portugal in Southwest Europe. It is managed by APL – Administração do Porto de Lisboa, S.A. It has terminals for containers, food, cement and multi-use. Yilport’s Liscont-Alcântara Container Terminal is a leading player at the port.

Enlarge Portugal – opinion of the Portuguese Minister of the Sea

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 17, 2017 – August is traditionally a month of vacation for most of the Portuguese. However, in 2017, it will also be...

Timor-Leste delegation visits Lisbon port

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 4, 2017 – Timor-Leste will soon have a new deepwater harbour, the port of Tibar, and the managers responsible for...

Lisbon port to handle 24 cruise calls in August

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 3, 2017 – Lisbon port expects to receive 24 cruise calls in August, two more than in the same month last year,...

Drewry foresees global demand increase in sea cargo traffic of up to 4% in 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) August 2, 2017 – According to the latest report from consultancy Drewry Shipping, a strong growth in freight traffic was...

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...

Portugal introduces radar module of Costa Segura system

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 26, 2017 – The Minister of National Defense, José Azeredo Lopes and the Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vitorino,...

Portugal looks for new Silk Road role

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 25, 2017 – Following the Portuguese prime minister’s visit to China in 2016, the first memorandum of...

Lisbon port starts recovering from strike years

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) July 11, 2017 – Lisbon port has started recovering from the last two years of strikes of dockworkers that caused the loss of...

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,...

Lisbon port containerised cargo traffic rises 53% y/y in Jan-May 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 27, 2017 – In the first five months of 2017, the containerised cargo traffic in Lisbon port rose by 53.4% on the year,...

TEN-T – Connecting Europe – Core network corridors

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) June 19, 2017 – TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Networks) envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways,...

Badajoz logistics platform to be completed by 2020

Setúbal, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 –The Plataforma Logística do Sudoeste Europeu (PLSWE – The Southwestern European Logistics Platform) in...

Boluda Lines sets up shipping agency based in Lisbon port

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) June 13, 2017 – Boluda Lines, a leading Spanish shipowner and global marine services company, will bet on Lisbon port through...

Portuguese Minister of the Sea says new Lisbon cruise terminal to have key economic importance

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope), June 3, 2017 – Portuguese Minister of the Sea, Ana Paula Vittorino, has said that the new cruise terminal in Santa Apolónia,...

UK-based MacAndrews gets Best Shipping Line 2017 award in Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – London-based shipping company MacAndrews & Company Limited has received the award for the Best Shipping...

Lisbon port cargo traffic rises 21% y/y in Jan-April 2017

Lisbon, Portugal (PortSEurope) May 23, 2017 – Lisbon port cargo traffic rose by 21% on the year in the first four months of 2017 to some 4 million tonnes....

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...

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