Ana Paula Vitorino, Portugal’s minister of the sea, also revealed plans to deepen the draught in the Sado River to 15m, to allow large container ships to reach the Port of Setúbal.
This, she said, will increase competition in the markets that the port serves. She stressed that the work has already been agreed upon by the government.
“The port will be converted to be able to receive the same vessels that Liscont terminal can currently handle in the Port of Lisbon,” she said, stressing that this will allow real competition between the two ports.
The government has shied away from saying so, but the volte face over the Sado deepening could very well mean the death of the Barreiro container terminal project in Lisbon, which was originally mooted to enable Liscont to transfer its traffic to the south bank of the Tagus.
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