Estradas de Portugal

EP Estradas de Portugal, SA was a Portuguese state company entrusted with the maintenance of (state) roads and highways in Portugal. Estradas de Portugal merged into the newly founded company Infraestruturas de Portugal on June 1, 2015 .

In November 2007 EP Estradas de Portugal SA was founded as a successor company of EP - Estradas de Portugal, EPE, which had been the agency for road administration in Portugal since 2005. EP Estradas de Portugal SA was a company wholly owned by the Portuguese State, had a 75 year concession to develop, design and maintain the road network of Portugal, with the exception of most of the provincial highways operated by BRISA SA operate.

EP was the successor to the Junta Autónoma das Estradas (JAE), which existed as an authority from 1927 to 1999 when it was replaced by three agencies: Instituto das Estradas de Portugal (IEP), Instituto para a Construção Rodoviária (ICOR), and Instituto para a Conservação e Exploração da Rede Rodoviária (ICERR). In 2002 they were restructured and reorganized as an authority in the IEP. In 2004 the IEP was converted into a public limited company and renamed EP - Estradas de Portugal, with 100% of the shares remaining in state ownership.

Since the beginning of 2014, the Portuguese government under Passos Coelho has been running the plan to merge the company with the state-owned rail network operator Rede Ferroviária Nacional . On the one hand, this should result in operating cost savings of a good 15 million euros. On the other hand, the merged, larger company should receive loans with lower interest rates to finance future infrastructure projects. Since January 1, 2015, both companies have been headed by the same Chairman of the Board of Directors ( presidente do conselho de administração ), António Ramalho .

The merger was completed on June 1, 2015.

Highways operated by EP

In Portugal, EP operated the following motorways under concession:

• Autoestrada A20 Auto-Estrada CRIP-Circular Regional Interior do Porto
• Autoestrada A26 Auto-Estrada do Baixo Alentejo
• Autoestrada A30 Auto-Estrada Sacavém / Santa Iria de Azóia
• Autoestrada A31
• Autoestrada A32 Auto-Estrada da Chapelaria
• Autoestrada A35
• Autoestrada A36 CRIL - Circular Regional Interior de Lisboa
• Autoestrada A38
• Autoestrada A39
• Autoestrada A44

See also

• List of highways in Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 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.  
2. ↑ Governo estuda fusão entre a Refer ea Estradas de Portugal. Público, March 20, 2014, accessed March 24, 2014 (Portuguese).