Did you know that... 

 … ZILS has around 793 ha occupied or under reservation;

… ZILS has currently an occupancy rate of 66,15%;

…aicep Global Parques is doing forest management within the industrial zone perimeter;

…In the last 5 years, aicep Global Parques has set around 21196 taps for the natural pine resin extraction;

... Every year is tender for picking pine cones to extract;

…Over the last 5 years aicep Global Parques sold about 5093 m3 inerts per year, including sand, sabrel and grit;

… ZILS has a total of 58,50 km of road (including all ZILS contiguous ways to, namely the IP8 and IC4);

…The railway connection from ZILS to Sines Port is ensured by a network with 17,03 km of extension;

… ZILS is served by the 72 km long railway line which connects Sines Port to the southern line connecting Lisbon to Faro;

… ZILS has a pipeline grid with about 23,42 km, extending to the port zone;

… the pipeline grid has 11,70 km of mats and 11,72 km of buried piping;

… companies currently installed in ZILS are responsible for about 1500 direct and 1300 indirect employees;

… Zils receives every year visitors from entities of countries all over the world; 

… Sines Port moved around 25,79 million tons of goods in 2011;

…Sines Port plays a major role in the national energy sector: about 64% of energy supply entered into the country in 2011 through Sines;

… Sines port moved in 2011 around 16,2 million liquid bulk and around 4 million tons of solid bulk;

…The goods movement in Sines Port in 2011 represented about 40% of all the goods movements in national ports;

… Sines Port stands out as the Atlantic gate, 43% of the unloaded goods in national ports and 34% of all the loaded goods in national ports;

… according to the evolution of the average monthly traffic of containers (in TEU), Sines Port has grown 43,5% per year since 2004 (year of the beginning of the activity of terminal XXI);

… about 90% of the cargo arriving to the port is after transported by railway;

… rail transportation of goods in containers from and to Sines Port overcame in 2011, 1,3 million tons, representing in this transport sector and at the port 61,3% share;

…the multipurpose and containers terminals, as well as ZALS (Sines, Logistics Area), have a direct connection to the national railway, being served by over 20 daily services;

… Sines Refinery, located in ZILS, is the largest refinery in the country, ranking among the three largest refineries in the Iberian Peninsula;

… Sines Refinery has a distillation capacity of 10,8 million of tons per year, equivalent to approximately 220 thousand barrels a day;

… Sines Refinery provides about 71% of the distillation capacity of the country.

… Sines Refinery is one of the most modern refineries in Europe;

… Sines Refinery produces gasoline, diesel (30%), LPG (7,3%), fuel oil (19%), jet fuel (8,6%), bitumen (2,5%) and sulfur (0,2%).