Shrinking Vasco da Gama in Port of Sines
NewsEarlier this year, the Portuguese government again changed the base conditions of the tender to relaunch the Vasco da Gama ‘multipurpose t...
Port of Leixões expansion
NewsThe Port of Leixões (APDL) in Portugal has announced plans to upgrade the north container terminal to handle 1M TEU a year. In 2021, the co...
Sines multipurpose terminal open to concession offers
NewsIn October, APS, the port authority for the Portuguese ports of Sines and Algarve, issued a tender for a new concession covering the multipu...
Leixões plan to boost Intermodal transport
NewsNuno Araújo, president of Portugal’s Port of Douro and Leixões Administration (APDL), has revealed plans to increase the use of intermod...
Sines to try again
NewsNo bids were received for the concession for the Port of Sines’s second container terminal, styled ‘Vasco da Gama’. However, the presi...
Expansion at Port of Ponta Delgada
NewsThe Port of Ponta Delgada in the Portuguese Azores is investing €46M to expand container handling capacity by almost 70%. Half of the fund...
Yilport streamlines Portugal operations
NewsYilport has appointed a single person to manage all three of its container terminals in Portugal. The latest move has seen Diogo Vaz Marecos...
Strike threat in Sines
NewsThe Sindicato XXI trade union is threatening a year long strike at the Port of Sines, given a delay to negotiations between PSA and Laborsin...
Setúbal hits all-time box record
NewsIn the first nine months of this year, Portugal's third biggest container port handled 121,744 TEU...
Setúbal launches new projects
NewsThe Port of Setúbal is looking to develop one or two new areas...
Setúbal ro-ro up 15%
NewsThe number of new cars moved over the Port of Setúbal in the first quarter of this year increased by 15% to 40,000 units...
Barreiro – a terminal too far?
NewsThe government of Portugal has decided that the Port of Lisbon needs a new container terminal, but does it?...
Portuguese ports debate
NewsThe Port of Setúbal argues that it is a better bet for a new deep water container terminal than Barreiro in Lisbon...
Setúbal launches ro-ro tender
NewsThe Port of Setúbal has launched a public tender to expand its ro-ro terminal to accommodate more automobile business...