Port Metro removes the Court’s concession contract – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

The Court of Auditors (TdC) confirmed on Friday that Metro do Porto asked the sub-concession contract from the underground operation, which was at the court to obtain prior approval, without it if he had pronounced. In the midst of suspicion that the winning consortium, which will manage the underground and the STCP, may be about to withdraw from the contract, the Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, admitted that there was no sign of a failure to comply Spanish consortium there are already signs of concern.

                     

                         “The sign I have is of concern on the part of the STCP board of directors, who asked for an information following the news made public,” said the minister told reporters at the end of an American Chamber of Commerce event in Portugal, in Lisbon. In the morning, the TB confirmed to Lusa reports in the press of the withdrawal of sub-concession contract their services, without any further clarification. “At the request of Metro do Porto contract is not before the Court” to obtain prior approval, said only source of the institution. The Business Journal point in, however, that in the Metro decision “will have weighed the risk of TB plumb this contract, leading the group that won the tender to give up.”

One possibility that had been advanced by STCP organizations representing the workers, in a statement, warned that the internal restructuring, recently started the company, “seem to indicate that the Spanish consortium TMB / Moventis, who was awarded the concession of the service will have given up the award” .

Asked about the issue last Thursday, on the sidelines of the inauguration of the Cruise Terminal of the Port of Leixões in Matosinhos, Economy Minister Pires de Lima said he had no information to provide, ensuring however that the Government is aware of the implementation of the specifications of the concession of Metro do Porto and STCP and act “in accordance with what the circumstances dictate.”

Already on Friday, Sérgio Monteiro confirmed: “We do not have any effective signal, formal, non-compliance, we only signs of concern that the STCP board of directors has passed, it seemed that there was some hesitation by the private consortium,” which won the award. “It will not be long to see if they actually fulfill or not the goals that put the proposal”, explained the Secretary of State, noting that “in the coming days, according to the specifications of the calendar will need to form the company that will provide the service of STCP and deposit the capital. “

In the statement, the representative organizations of workers (TSO’s) of STCP ensure that” the contract was not signed and so little was still constituted by the consortium, the company so that this becomes possible. “

” We recall that for about four months, the Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, meeting with these TSO’s, said that by the end of June 2015 all was completed and started the new operation, most said that if it did not call itself such responsibility, keeping the STCP in the state sphere and pledging that would effect immediately hiring drivers to bridge the existing deficit, “the same text.

The contract of sub Metro signed on April 23, is subject to prior approval of TB and since it was sent to this body was returned two times for questions or clarification clarification.

In view of the news out to the public this Friday, the district council of Port PS accuses the government PSD / CDS to treat public transport in the county “with total disregard “and leave in a” chaotic “. “The Metro is operating from January transparent way on the basis of service contracts, making taxpayers pay more than necessary. The STCP, the company destruction of policy leads to that, each day, more than 100 scheduled services are not met, transforming the lives of the users of buses in a living hell, “write the portuenses socialists.

Given the news out to the public this Friday, the district council of Port PS accuses the government PSD / CDS to treat public transport in the county “with utter contempt” and leave a “chaotic” situation. “The Metro is operating from January transparent way on the basis of service contracts, making taxpayers pay more than necessary. The STCP, the company destruction of policy leads to that, each day, more than 100 scheduled services are not met, transforming the lives of the users of buses in a living hell, “write the portuenses socialists.