Fourteen minutes, 14! was the average time taken by each truck, from the many hundreds of thousands that, throughout 2016, called the Leixões Container Terminal to deliver or pick up cargoes.

As a result of TCL's swift response capacity, the downtime of trucks within the port perimeter remained restricted in average terms to 40 minutes, in 2016.

That is, on average, 40 minutes was the time elapsed since the entry of each truck by the Main Gate and the subsequent exit by VIPL, after having loaded or unloaded the container (s) at TCL…