The traffic of containers is especially important to Lisbon, which has regular services of  cabotage from Europe, as well as a large number of direct intercontinental services carried out by the main lines of navigation. National shipowners operate in these traffics mainly through the connections to the Azores, Madeira and PALOP’s.

The fact that the Port of Lisbon integrated the CSI – Container Security Initiative in January of 2006, a fact which involved the installation of non-intrusive container inspection equipment, reinforced the privileged intervention which it already carried out in commercial exchanges with the USA.