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The Port of Sines is the largest artificial port in Portugal, and a deep water port and is located around 100km south of Lisbon. The Port of Sines is an open deep-water sea port with excellent maritime access, without restrictions, leading the Portuguese port sector in the volume of cargo handled, and offering unique natural characteristics to receive any type of vessels. Due to its modern specialized terminals, the port is able to handle the different types of cargoes. It is managed by APS-Administração do Porto de Sines and is currently looking at greater involvement in renewable energies. It is a location of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.

Ecoslops doubles revenue in 2021

Paris, France (Ports Europe) February 1, 2022 – Ecoslops, which recycles oil residues, has reported revenue of €12.43 million ($13.9 million), up +116%...

Angolan company Kwanda sends delegation to Port of Sines

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2022 – On January 19, the Port of Sines hosted a visit from a delegation from the Angolan company...

Port of Sines reports increased cargo in 2021

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) January 27, 2022 – The Atlantic Port of Sines has produced year-on-year growth in all cargo segments. Total cargo was 46.5...

Port Authority of Seville welcomes delegation from Portugal’s Sines port

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) January 20, 2022 – A delegation from the Portuguese port of Sines has visited Seville to discuss strategy and future...

Port of Sines hosts diplomatic attachés

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 24, 2021 – Earlier this week, around 30 diplomatic attachés from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MNE) visited...

Ecoslops announces unaudited results for the first half of the current year ending June 30, 2021

Ecoslops, the cleantech that brings oil into the circular economy, announces its unaudited results for the first half of the current year ending June 30th,...

Angolan Minister of Transport visits the Port of Sines

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 17, 2021 – The Angolan Minister of Transport, Ricardo Viegas D´Abreu, visited the Port of Sines ton 15th...

Cargo movements in mainland Portuguese ports grew by 44.9% in June 2021

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) September 14, 2021 – The volume of cargo handled at national ports in the month of June 2021, compared to the same month...

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 Sines reports first-half traffic growth of over 23%

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) July 27, 2021 – In the first six months of 2021, the Port of Sines has reported total cargo traffic of 24 million tons, up...

Port of Huelva receives the visit of the President of the Port of Sines

The president of the Administration of the Ports of Sines and the Algarve (APS), José Luis Cacho, today paid a visit to the Port of Huelva, in which he was...

EU awards nearly € 25 million in funding to ‘green port project’ Rotterdam

An international alliance of 45 companies, knowledge institutes and port authorities, headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority, has been awarded nearly € 25...

Portuguese prime minister supports Sines 4.0 project

In the public presentation of the Sines 4.0 project, which includes an investment of 3.5 billion euros for the installation of a megadata center in Sines, the...

Port of Sines reports Q1 2021 container cargo up 16%

Sines, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 23, 2021 – In the first three months of 2021 the Port of Sines reported container traffic of 440,645 TEU, a...

Portugal’s Vasco da Gama Terminal project to be delayed

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) April 8, 2021 – The deadline for submitting proposals for the international tender procedure for the Vasco da Gama...

PSA manager speaks at Portuguese Freight Forwarders Association event

Lisbon, Portugal (Ports Europe) March 25, 2021 – Nuno Carlota, Procurement and Business Director at PSA, has attended the digital event Conversas de...

‘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...

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