Escola Superior Náutica Infante D. Henrique (ENIDH), is the only Portuguese maritime college and is located at Paço de Arcos, near Lisbon, Portugal. The College’s mission statement is “educating and training officers for the Merchant Marine as well as other maritime related activities such as, port management and transportation and logistics”.

ENIDH has modern facilities which include several classrooms, laboratories and simulators, an indoor swimming pool, diving tank, row tank and a gymnasium. Other facilities include a canteen for students, teachers and staff personnel and a residence hall for 100 students. Nowadays, the school has approximately 60 teachers and about 700 students. About 40% of the teachers are marine officers that become to shore after some years of activity in the merchant fleet.

ENIDH belongs to the Portuguese public higher education network and is under supervision of the Ministry of Education and Science. The College is certified by the Portuguese Maritime Administration and in 2008 implemented a quality management system which is certified by SGS. (ISO 9001:2008).