At the end of the first semester of 2011, the Container Terminal of Leixões accumulates a growth of more than 10%.
Between January and June, TCL handled 256,053 TEU 162,277 containers) confirming it as the biggest national operator of container terminals.
Beyond the global result frankly positive, the first semester also includes the best month ever of the concession. In terms of units, it was in March, when 28,438 containers were handled, and in terms of TEU, in June, when 44,945 were handled.
In fact, four of the first six months of the current year turned out to be better than the previous monthly record of cargo handling at TCL.
Note also that, after a strong start of the year, TCL managed even to accelerate the growth rhythm. And if on the first quarter it reached 8%, now, at the end of the semester, it exceeded 10%.
The strong activity growth, in an adverse economic situation, equally confirms TCL capacity to attract cargo to Leixões, and in serving efficiently the loaders, exporters and importers who turn the Port of Leixões into a neuralgic point of their logistic chains.