TCL handled 621,086 TEU in 2013. A decrease of 1.3% when compared to the achieved in the previous year. Or a gain of more than 5% if discounted the fact that the numbers in 2012 have been inflated by close to 30,000 containers transferred from the ports affected by labor problems.

Fact is that the final result of 2013 greatly exceeded the initial forecasts for the year and confirms TCL in a new level of production and productivity, the level of international best practices.

The movements recorded in Leixões relate almost exclusively to import and export, with increasing inclination to export, which means that the success of TCL is also the success of companies in the Northern Region and their focus on foreign markets to overcome internal crisis.

Plus, the continued expansion of the Port of Leixões and TCL’s area of influence with the uptake/fixation of customers and cargos beyond the Mondego, in the South, and even Galicia, in the North.

In December, TCL handled 56,718 TEU, one of the best monthly results of the year, but remained 11.9 % below the performed in the same extraordinary month of 2012.