In 2016, the Leixões Container Terminal handled 648,800 TEU, representing a year-on-year growth of 5.5% over the previous year.

Better, in the history of the concession, only the year 2014. And even then, by little, very little. Against that record, the 2016’s result represents a "break" of just 1.6%, about 10,000 TEU, or the equivalent of a "normal" work week.

The figures for the year ended confirm, if necessary, TCL's capacity to attract and retain cargoes, thus almost completely compensating for fluctuations in the market it does not dominate and the loss of important traffic, as it is also the case of Angola.

The 648,800 TEU accounted for in 2016 also confirm the condition of TCL as the most important leader in import-export trades in national ports, and it is, from a long distance, what serves the hinterland and domestic exporters businesses more and better.

Even at the Iberian scale, the Leixões Container Terminal gained market share in 2016 and strengthened its position as number three in the Peninsula (number five if transhipment moves were included).

With the 648,800 TEU handled, in 2016, TCL managed to work another year very close to its installed capacity, without penalising shipowners and other players in the logistics chain.