The Port of Leixões registered, in the end of June of 2011, the best semester of its history and TCL was determining to that record.
Between January and June of the current year more than eight million tons passed by Leixões, of which 2.7 million tons of containerized cargo.
Regarding the corresponding period of 2010, the cargo handled in Leixões grew 12%, while the containerized cargo grew 13%.
On the same period the container movement rose 10%, also to a new maximum record, until 256 thousand TEU.
The exports were the main responsible by the increase in the cargo at the Port of Leixões, with the following markets in the limelight: Angola, USA, UK, Holland, Spain and Algeria.