Comboios de Portugal
| Comboios de Portugal
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| legal form | state |
| founding | 1951 |
| Seat | Lisbon , Portugal |
| Branch | Transport / logistics |
| Website | www.cp.pt |
Comboios de Portugal, Entidade Pública Empresarial ( CP, EPE or has CP ; German railways of Portugal ), [ kum'bɔjuʃ də purtu'gał ] is the Portuguese state railway company .
history
It was founded in 1951 under the name Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses and renamed Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses, EP in 1975 - EP stands for empresa pública , public company.
In the course of the liberalization of the rail market demanded by the EU, the Portuguese state reformed the railway company. The rail network and the associated stations have been maintained by the Rede Ferroviária Nacional (REFER) since 1997, while the CP is in turn controlled by the Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes Terrestres . Since 2004 the CP has been advertising with its new name Comboios de Portugal (Railways of Portugal) instead of Caminhos-de-ferro portugueses (Portuguese Railways). The last change in corporate form took place in 2009, and since then the company has been trading as Comboios de Portugal, Entidade Pública Empresarial . The government has been planning to privatize the state railway for several years. In view of the desolate budget situation in Portugal, an imminent realization is currently expected, although the exact implementation (complete privatization, sale of subsidiaries, granting of liner concessions, etc.) is still unclear.
Until the European financial crisis, the number of passengers had risen continuously. In 2005 the CP carried 130.6 million passengers, in 2006 133.2 million, in 2007 134.7 million and in 2008 135.5 million passengers. In 2009 these fell to 131.27 million passengers, in 2010 to 130.08 million and in 2011 they fell to 126.14 million passengers. In 2012 the number of passengers fell again to 111.70 million passengers.
Corporate structure
The company has assigned its individual services and tasks to different business areas:
- CP Longo Curso , long-distance transport ( Alfa Pendular , Intercidades , Internacional)
- CP regional , regional transport
- CP Lisboa , Lisbon suburb network
- CP Porto , Portuese suburban network
- CP Frota, maintenance
- CP Serviços, service company
The freight transport business was outsourced to the independent company CP Carga , which was privatized in September 2015.
Board of Directors
The company is managed by a board of directors ("Conselho de Administração"), whose term of office lasts two years and is usually occupied by political parties. Nuno Freitas has been chairman of the council since 2019.
| Surname | Political party | Term of office |
| Francisco Neto de Carvalho | independent | 1969-1974 |
| Walter Rosa | PS | 1974-1975 |
| José Augusto Fernandes | independent | 1975-1976 |
| Amílcar Marques | independent | 1976-1980 |
| José Ricardo Marques da Costa | independent | 1980-1982 |
| António Queirós Martins | Psd | 1982-1986 |
| Carvalho Carreira | Psd | 1986-1993 |
| Pedro Alves | Psd | 1993-1994 |
| António Brito da Silva | Psd | 1994-1996 |
| Manuel Frasquilho | independent | 1996-1997 |
| Crisóstomo Teixeira | PS | 1997-2003 |
| Ernesto Martins de Brito | Psd | 2003-2004 |
| Antonio Ramalho | Psd | 2004-2006 |
| Francisco Cardoso dos Reis | PS | 2006-2010 |
| José Benoliel | independent | 2010-2013 |
| Manuel Queiró | CDS-PP | 2013-2017 |
| Carlos Gomes Nogueira | k. A. | 2017-2019 |
| Nuno Freitas | k. A. | 2019– |
Holdings
Due to the outsourcing of former company units, entrepreneurial decisions and at the political request of the owner, the CP has a wide variety of investments in companies. The information is based on the 2012 annual report as of December 31, 2012.
| Surname | Participation |
| EMEF | 100% |
| CP Carga | 100% |
| SAROS | 100% |
| Ecosaúde | 100% |
| FERNAVE | 70% |
| Transportes Intermodais do Porto | 33.33% |
| Operdores de Transportes da Região de Lisboa | 14.28% |
| Metro Ligeiro de Mirandela, SA | 10% |
| Metro do Porto, SA | 3.33% |
| Intercontainer - Interfrigo, SA | 2.09% |
| Metro Mondego, SA | 2.5% |
| Eurofima - Société Européenne pour le Financement de Matériel Ferroviaire | 2% |
| Bureau Central de Clearing (BCC) | 1.54% |
| Agência para a Modernização do Porto | 0.47% |
business
CP operates a rail network with a total length of around 2600 kilometers, which extends from Valença in the north to Lagos and Vila Real de Santo António in the south of the country. Most of the CP trains run on broad gauge tracks with a gauge of 1,668 millimeters, which are compatible with the gauge of the Spanish company RENFE . In addition, the CP operates some narrow-gauge railways in meter gauge .
Train types
The company operates in six different train types. In long-distance traffic, there is the “ Alfa Pendular ” train type for high-speed trains, while the “ Intercidades ” type (comparable to InterCity ) is intended for other long-distance trains . On medium distances, there are faster regional trains of the " InterRegional " type. The basic offer is made up of the train types “ Regional ” in the provinces and “ Urbano ” in the conurbations of Lisbon and Porto .
For three international train connections to Vigo (Spain), Madrid (Spain) and Hendaye (France) there is the train type "Internacional". Furthermore, these three train connections each have their own names .
- Alfa Pendular (AP)
- Intercidades (IC)
- InterRegional (IR)
- Regional (R)
- Urbano
- Internacional (IN)
- Trains Lisbon– Madrid ( Lusitânia ), Lisbon– Hendaye / Irun ( Sud-Express ) and Porto– Vigo ( Celta)
See also
- List of railway lines in Portugal
- List of Portuguese locomotive and railcar series
- Comboio Presidencial
Web links
- Internet presence of the CP (Portuguese, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carlos Cipriano: CP deixa de ser empresa pública e passa a Entidade Pública Empresarial ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [CP becomes a public entity], Público , April 16, 2009
- ↑ Privatizações rendem 1,87 mil milhões de euros ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , [Privatization brings 1.87 billion euros], Oje.pt, October 18, 2010
- ↑ Passenger numbers of the CP in the years 2005–2008, page 9 (PDF file, Portuguese) ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Passenger numbers of the CP in the years 2009 and 2010, page 14 (PDF file, Portuguese; 720 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Passenger numbers of the CP in the years 2010 and 2011, page 7 (PDF file, Portuguese; 573 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Comboios de Portugal, EPE: Perfil e estrutura do Grupo. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Relátorios e Contas 2012, December 31, 2012, p. 4ff. , archived from the original on March 3, 2014 ; Retrieved February 23, 2014 (Portuguese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Freight railways: shipping company buys CP Carga. Eurailpress.de, September 17, 2015, accessed on September 19, 2015 .
- ^ CP muda de presidente. Nuno Freitas é o escolhido do Governo. In: Dinheiro Vivo. July 18, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019 (European Portuguese).
