B-Rail, of the Barraqueiro group, has worked on entering the Lisbon to Porto line since 2021. Renfe is now homologating 30 variable-gauge Talgo trainsets for Portugal, and CP is buying 12 of its own. B-Rail is the only candidate without a state balance sheet.
The insolvency administrator and the Ministerio Publico both argue that Symtomax's collapse should be qualified as culpable, naming its British and Dutch managers. Its assets raised less than 4 percent of what the company owed the state alone.
Judge Fernanda Carqueijo found the appointment of Luis Carlos Esteves neither personal nor arbitrary, given the run of lawyers who had resigned or asked to be excused. She also upheld the Bar's power to make the appointment centrally in cases of special complexity.
Infraestruturas de Portugal will reopen the stretch between Mouriscas-A and Vila Velha de Rodao, restoring Regional and Intercidades services along all 240 kilometres. The repair cost 3.4 million euros and used 5,500 cubic metres of rockfill on 120 metres of track.
Fuel costs rose 29 percent across the group. Azores Airlines flew 7.7 percent fewer flights and cancelled 249 of them, at an estimated cost of four million euros. SATA Air Acores cut its loss to 2.1 million, and SATA Handling reported 2.2 million in its first split-out accounts.
The provisional report counts 56,586 hectares burnt to 15 August, a fall of 74.7 percent. Carlos Trindade of the Pyrocene Alliance says a moderate Daily Severity Rating explains it, and warns that a strong El Nino could carry the critical period into November.
Stichting WIE International filed on Wednesday, arguing the dynamic pay system breaches article 22 of the GDPR. Its research puts Uber's average commission at about 29 percent. Portugal's parliament capped the platform share at 25 percent nine days ago.
