Located next to the Port of Leixões, the new platform “will follow a polinucleado model, with access through Via Internal connection to the Port of Leixões (VILPL), and will contribute in a decisive manner to develop the port and turn the area the Oporto a value-added platform Iberia “, supports the Administration of Douro and Leixões Port (Port Authority).
With this new infrastructure, considers the metropolitan area will be equipped with” optimal conditions for the attraction and establishment of logistics centers and distribution, enabling anchor new traffic to the Port of Leixões, to the economic fabric and the communities and surrounding supply chains. “
With an area of 70 hectares, logistics platform is divided into two poles, and the pole 2 is located the warehouse Luis Simões Group, which also is now opened, and the future Intermodal Rail Terminal, the responsibility of REFER. – Portugal Infrastructure
Introduced at the end of VILPL, near the junction with the Via Regional Interior (VRI), Polo 2 constitute, according to the Port Authority, a platform “want to port traffic, either for logistical support activities for consumption in the Metropolitan Area Porto “.
In this pole are the company premises Luis Simões, occupying two of the 14 lots provided along two ships of 10,000 square meters each and a building for administrative functions and operations added value with 1,500 square meters of construction area.
This also is the lot assigned to Espaçotrans, with an area of 18,000 square meters, and will be installed the future Intermodal Rail Terminal associated with the Logistics Platform.
According to the Port Authority, offering to provide this pole consists of modular warehouses adaptable to the needs of small clients, whole ships for long term rental, designed tailored to customer requirements, and lots infraestruturados . suitable for construction by the client
As for polo 1, adjacent to the agri-food silos and port area, it has already completed the work of urban infrastructure, being under construction installations for the Zaldesa – Logistics Platform Salamanca, which will occupy part of one of the 15 lots provided for, of which are already under negotiation more than 50% of the total area.
This polo, said the Port Authority will provide a “prime location” for Second-line port activities, such as storage and (de) consolidation charges.
“This new investment will contribute decisively to the development of the Port of Leixões, as well as for the Metropolitan Area of Porto, given the optimal conditions for the attraction and establishment of logistics centers and distribution “, considers the Port Authority, describing the infrastructure as a” strategic investment highlighted “that port.
According to the port administration, the ceremony today, scheduled for 14:30, will feature The Secretary of State for Transport, Sergio Monteiro.
Built in the late nineteenth century four kilometers north of the mouth of the Douro River in the municipality of Matosinhos and has since repeatedly extended and improved, the Leixões Harbour is the second largest man-made port in the country and the largest port infrastructure in northern Portugal.
According to data from the Port Authority, Leixões is 25 % of Portuguese international trade and handles about 14 million tons of goods per year, climbed by about three thousand ships a year with all kinds of loads – textiles to granite, wine, wood, automobiles, grain, container, scrap iron and steel, alcohol, brandy, sugar, oils, molasses, petroleum products -. plus cruise ships
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