After a rising tide of passenger complaints, the AMT has ordered Transtejo/Soflusa to file monthly returns on every service run, delayed or cancelled, with causes and remedies, broken down by line and by time of day.
Active Space Technologies will build 340 structural components for a European satellite constellation, worth up to EUR 3 million, with deliveries running to June 2028. Its hardware is also booked onto ESA missions to Venus, the Sun and Jupiter.
The labour inspectorate's count puts 81 workplace deaths in 2026 so far, after 160 last year: the worst run since 2015. On Wednesday a crane came down on a Belas site that had no licence to occupy the road, killing two painters.
SINACC, the platform meant to run SNS waiting lists for consultations and surgery, has had its rollout postponed days after launch because it is not ready. The Ordem dos Medicos calls the delay prudent. On the latest figures, 87,246 patients have waited more than six months for an operation.
The Bank of Portugal says the combined current and capital account surplus fell to 0.8% of GDP in the first half, down 45.8% on a year earlier, as a wider goods deficit bit. Yet net external debt dropped to 33.9% of GDP, its lowest since 2001. What the split means for residents and investors.
Libax, a Lisbon software house serving insurance brokers, has connected AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude to its clients' live databases using the Model Context Protocol. Brokers can now query their own books in plain Portuguese, a small but telling step in Portuguese SME AI adoption.
