Leixões Ocean Basin launched, 'seed' of the North's sea economy

“It is the seed for creating a valley of technological innovation for the sea here, between Porto - centered here in Matosinhos - to Viana [do Castelo] or even Caminha, a technological innovation valley for the sea,” Eduardo Silva, a researcher at INESC-TEC and ISEP and one of the main responsible for the project, told Lusa. At issue is the Ocean Basin, “one of the main works of the blue 'hub' of Leixões”, which will have two poles. “It's an inf…

The Leixões Blue Hub, a research center for the blue economy, has an investment of 12 million euros. The construction of the Leixões Blue Hub — Polo I starts tomorrow, April 15, at the Logistics Platform II of the Port of Leixões. It is a new infrastructure dedicated to scientific and technological research in the field of the blue economy, with emphasis on the experimentation of ocean technologies. The main element of this pole is the Ocean Bas…