The Transport Committee of the European Parliament has relegated the much-desired Spanish rail line Ruta de la Plata to a lower priority in its roadmap. Portugal and local Spanish authorities lobbied for the renovation of...Read more
Spain has awarded a contract for a feasibility study for the reopening of a section of the old Ruta de la Plata railway. The contract allocates 821,000 euros to Prointec S.A.U. to conduct the study....Read more
The rail freight sector in Portugal is somewhat of a unicum in the European Union. Just like in Spain, the railway network is equipped with the Iberian gauge (1,668mm). Moreover, there is no state-owned rail...Read more
The upgrade of the railway line between Évora and Elvas, in southern Portugal, is one of the main ongoing projects to increase rail connectivity from the port of Sines. The rails are finally being delivered,...Read more
The Lousado terminal, in northwestern Portugal, is expected to be ready before the end of the year and progress has been made recently. The Vila Nova de Famalicão City Council has acquired 3,904 square metres...Read more
Medway will launch a new rail connection between Portugal and Germany. Vasco da Gama is the name of the train that, in the first quarter of 2023, is expected to start running the line after...Read more
MEDWAY Portugal is leading a consortium that is planning on investing over 82 million euros to improve the Portuguese railway infrastructure. One of the main goals of the consortium is to implement SMART wagons, which...Read more
Groupe SNCF has announced plans to acquire Takargo, Portugal’s leading private rail freight operator and a subsidiary of Portuguese construction group Mota-Engil.Read more
Lousado terminal, which is branded as the largest rail freight terminal ever built in the Iberian peninsula, got the needed signatures to kick off construction works. The terminal, which will be located in Vila Nova...Read more
The Portuguese and Spanish governments should increase their budgets for rail and port infrastructure. This is the recommendation of the European Commission. The institute considers the Portuguese ports as potential European import hubs due to...Read more
The Portuguese rail freight company Medway will develop a logistics area in the Port of Sines, in the region of Alentejo. The project will be carried out with a total budget of 1 million Euros.
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The Portuguese government has presented 2030 infrastructure investment plan to the national parliament. It consists of nineteen rail projects at a total budget of 4.1 billion Euros.
Nine of the projects have already commenced, the most...Read more
The Portuguese Transport Ministry has published the tender for the civil work of the railway link from Ovar to Vilanova de Gaia, in the north of the country. The line is considered the most unsafe...Read more
The Portuguese Port of Setubal will have its railway connections improved. Studies regarding the project are currently carried out, the Ministry of Development and the Port Authorities of Setubal and Sesimbra recently revealed. The Port...Read more
The completion of the railway line connecting Sines in Portugal and Caia in Spain will reduce Portuguese rail freight costs by 30 per cent. This is the prediction of the Portuguese minister of Development, Pedro...Read more
The rail freight connection between the Spanish city of Salamanca and the Portuguese port of Aveiro is expected to be completed in 2021. The Spanish President Mariano Rajoy and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa announced...Read more