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TRUCKS WAITING 13 MINUTES TRUCKS WAITING 13 MINUTES
2016-10-04



It is 13 minutes on average, the time it takes a truck to access the Leixões Container Terminal to load or unload containers.

The result, for the month of September and the traffic of thousands of trucks, says well of TCL’s operational capacity, in the reception and clearance of tens of thousands of containers that enter / leave the terminal every month by land.

As a result of the rapid pace of the operations, the downtime of trucks is reduced to a minimum and so does the length of stay inside the port perimeter. In September, 38 minutes was the average time between the entering and exiting of the Leixões’ Main Gate.

This responsiveness and speed benefits, firstly, the road hauliers, but also the flow of the entire logistics chain that the Leixões Container Terminal is a vital link.