In the first ten months of the year, TCL handled 504,890 TEU, representing an increase of more than 1% when compared with the higher value recorded last year.

In October, the Leixões Container Terminal recorded a total of 58,949 TEU handled. It was the best monthly result of the year and one of the best in the concession´s history.

In comparison with the same month in 2012, there was a fall of 6%, but it should be borne in mind that was last year, in October, that the labor situation in the port of Lisbon has worsened, causing an outstanding influx if containers to Leixões.

Discarded this extraordinary month, in fact now the result reached by TCL represents an increase of over 26% when compared to October 2011 which was, at the time, the best October ever at Leixões.

Considering the number of movements in October, TCL handled 37,573 containers (less than 8% year-on-year), bringing the total to 317,427 in 2013 (about the same as a year ago).