Mota-Engil signs €114 million contract to quadruple Minho line stretch

Mota-Engil has signed a new contract with Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) worth approximately €114 million for the quadrupling of the track on the section between Contumil and Ermesinde on the Minho line.

In a statement to the CMVM (Portuguese Securities Market Commission), the group highlights that the contract, with an estimated duration of 1,385 days, includes the expansion of the existing railway platform, including railway superstructure works, earthworks, drainage, retaining structures, ancillary and catenary works, elimination of level crossings, construction and extension of grade-separated crossings, as well as the redesign of the Rio Tinto Station and the Águas Santas Halt, with new passenger platforms and new parking areas.

With the awarding of this contract, Mota-Engil states that it “strengthens its order book in Portugal and supports the country’s development through a project of particular strategic relevance for national rail mobility, by eliminating one of the main capacity constraints of the Minho Line, and, above all, the transport of goods on the international connection to Galicia, Spain”.

According to Infraestruturas de Portugal, the section of the Minho Line between Contumil and Ermesinde is used by more than 200 trains per day, ensuring the connection of all passenger and freight traffic between Porto and all lines north of the city, with a particular impact on the Minho, Douro and Guimarães Lines, as well as the Braga Branch Line.

Source: Negócios; Credits: Mota-Engil