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MadoquaPower2X Anchors Sines's €2.8 Billion Green-Hydrogen Bet Toward a 2029 Production Start — Hytlantic FID and Neogreen €1 Billion Site Wait on the Mercado de Hidrogénio Regulatory Framework

MadoquaPower2X Anchors Sines's €2.8 Billion Green-Hydrogen Bet Toward a 2029 Production Start — Hytlantic FID and Neogreen €1 Billion Site Wait on the Mercado de Hidrogénio Regulatory Framework

MadoquaPower2X's €2.8B Sines green-hydrogen and green-ammonia complex anchors a Portuguese cluster now above €3B with Neogreen and Hytlantic in the pipeline. Construction starts 2027, production 2029 — with Hytlantic FID conditioned on the mercado de hidrogénio regulatory framework.
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Sines Gets Its Own Alfândega (Customs Office) on 1 January 2027 as Finance Ministry Pulls It Out of the Setúbal Delegação — 33-Strong Standalone Office Lands at the ZAL With Vehicle-Tax and Tributary Gabinetes

Sines Gets Its Own Alfândega (Customs Office) on 1 January 2027 as Finance Ministry Pulls It Out of the Setúbal Delegação — 33-Strong Standalone Office Lands at the ZAL With Vehicle-Tax and Tributary Gabinetes

Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento's 9 June visit to Porto de Sines unveiled a standalone Alfândega for the country's biggest maritime gateway — 33 staff, two dedicated gabinetes and a 1 January 2027 start lift Sines out of its delegação status under Setúbal.
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Castro Almeida Cuts Portugal's Industrial-Licensing Code From 600 to 200 Articles — Economy Minister Pitches 'Small Sines' Business Parks Across the Country and Revokes Multiple Decreto-Lei Diplomas to Accelerate Company Creation

Castro Almeida Cuts Portugal's Industrial-Licensing Code From 600 to 200 Articles — Economy Minister Pitches 'Small Sines' Business Parks Across the Country and Revokes Multiple Decreto-Lei Diplomas to Accelerate Company Creation

Manuel Castro Almeida walks into the week with the boldest deregulation pitch of the second Montenegro government's young life. The Minister of Economy and Territorial Cohesion told Jornal de Negócios at the weekend that he intends to cut Portugal's...
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AdC Blocks Boluda's Acquisition of Remolcanosa Portugal — Sines Tug and Mooring Market Saved From Collapsing Into a Monopoly After a December 2025 Phase-2 Probe and Two Rejected Remedy Packages

AdC Blocks Boluda's Acquisition of Remolcanosa Portugal — Sines Tug and Mooring Market Saved From Collapsing Into a Monopoly After a December 2025 Phase-2 Probe and Two Rejected Remedy Packages

The Autoridade da Concorrência today blocked Spain's Boluda from acquiring Remolcanosa Portugal — Serviços Marítimos. The deal would have collapsed the Port of Sines tug-and-mooring market into a monopoly. Two remedy packages were filed and both were rejected as insufficient.
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Nscale Books €695 Million for a Second 200MW Sines Building With 66,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for Microsoft — Late-2027 Deployment Builds on the 12,600 Blackwell Ultra Stack at Start Campus' 1.2GW Permitted Site

Nscale Books €695 Million for a Second 200MW Sines Building With 66,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for Microsoft — Late-2027 Deployment Builds on the 12,600 Blackwell Ultra Stack at Start Campus' 1.2GW Permitted Site

Nscale committed €695 million on Tuesday to expand its Sines Data Campus collaboration with Microsoft and Start Campus — €230 million in shared infrastructure and €465 million for a second 200MW building hosting 66,000+ NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs from late 2027.
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