Frigate Captain Eduardo Luís Pousadas Godinho will take office this Wednesday, July 19, at 16 pm, as the new Captain of the Port of Portimão and Local Commander of the Maritime Police.
The ceremony will take place at the Captaincy of the Port of Portimão and will be chaired by Rear Admiral José António Vizinha Mirones, Deputy Director General of the Maritime Authority and 2nd Commander General of the Maritime Police.
Since October 3, 2019, frigate captain Rodrigo Gonzalez dos Paços has been captain of the Port of Portimão.
The new commander, Pousadas Godinho, was born in Lisbon, on March 14, 1976, in the parish of São Jorge de Arroios, and attended high school in Torres Vedras, until 1994.
In September 1994, he enlisted at the Naval Academy, having completed, in 1999, the Navy course. He specializes in Communications and completed the Senior Officer Promotion Course in 2011.
Throughout his career, he held various positions in naval units, from which the command of the fast inspection boat stands out. Pegasus and the position as Immediate Officer of the landing craft blunderbuss, among other positions, as a garrison officer, namely in patrols Can e cacine.
On land, he served as head of the Communications Organization Office, head of the Communications Security Nucleus and head of the Publications Section of the Department of Communications and Information Systems at the School of Naval Technologies.
He assumed the leadership of the Communications Center of the Azores Operational Command, between 2008 and 2010, later of the Communications Center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, between 2011 and 2014, and head of the Operations Department of the Communications Centre, of Data and Cipher of the Navy, accumulating functions with the position of Communications Officer of the Portuguese Naval Force, from 2014 to 2016.
From September 2016 to February 2018, he was commander of the corvette hyacinth candido.
From 2018 to 2022, he served as Naval Operations Officer in the Joint Command for Military Operations in Oeiras, followed by a two-year commission in the General Staff of the Navy, in the Operations and Planning divisions.
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