On the first ten months of the year TCL handled 421,088 TEU, meaning a growth of 5.4% regarding the same period last year.
Considering the number of containers handled – 268,194 -, the accumulated result improvement reaches 6.2%.
October was the best October ever at TCL, with 28,026 containers handled (3.3% more in corresponding terms), (43,630 TEU, 2.2% more). With these figures and when there are still just two months until the end of the year, the Container Terminal of Leixões is on the right way to reach the scope of exceeding the 500,000 TEU barrier of containers handled. Which will be an absolute record, not only for TCL but also to all the national terminal operators.
It should be noted that since 2000, when TCL assumed the concession of the Container Terminal of Leixões, it has been setting successive maximum volumes of container handling, year after year, in spite of several difficulties of both the national and world economies.