On the first eight months of the year, the Container Terminal of Leixões handled 317,380 TEU, 6% more than in the corresponding period of the previous year. TCL is hopeful of ending the year, once again, with a new record of container handling in Leixões. A tradition which has been repeated, year after year, since the beginning of the concession.
In August, TCL handled 42,256 TEU, which turns this figure on the best monthly result achieved since the beginning of the year. However, comparing with the same month of 2009, the balance was negative in 3%. But August of 2009 was really exceptional and the best month of the year as well as one of the best of the recent past of the concession.