Thus, 189 trains were built, including 188 minimum service compositions. The suppression level in this period was 66.3%.
On the long haul, 21 trains out of a scheduled total of 31 were suppressed, with 89 trains out of an estimated 134 not circulating on the regional route.
In urban Lisbon, out of 272 scheduled, 180 were suppressed and in Porto, 71 trains out of 108 planned were not carried out.
In the urban areas of Coimbra, 10 of the 15 planned trains did not circulate, according to CP.
CP drivers are on a new 24-hour strike, starting at midnight, with minimum services enacted, called by the National Union of Drivers of the Portuguese Railways (SMAQ), against the latest proposal for salary increases of 51 euros.
The company foresees “strong impacts” on circulation today, and slight disturbances in the remaining days until the 18th, when train drivers will not perform services lasting more than seven and a half hours.
The arbitral tribunal decreed minimum services of around 30% at national level, as well as those necessary for the safety and maintenance of equipment and installations and emergency services and rescue trains.
The strike was called in protest against the company’s latest proposal for salary increases of 51 euros, which represents an average career progression of 3.89% and which the union structure considers “clearly unacceptable”.
Thus, between 00:00 and 23:59 today, workers go on a “strike to perform any and all work performed by workers in the categories represented by the SMAQ (with effect from the last hours of Thursday and the first hours of Saturday )”.
Additionally, between 00:00 on Saturday and 23:59 on the 17th, a “work strike is called for at all normal daily work periods that have an expected duration of more than seven hours and 30 minutes, for categories Machinist or Technical Machinist”.
Between 00:00 on Saturday and 23:59 on the 17th, they carry out a “work strike at all normal daily work periods that involve entering and/or leaving the headquarters between 00:00 and 06:00: 00, for Machinist or Technical Machinist”, and, between 00:00 on the 14th and 23:59 on the 17th, “strike at all normal work periods that have an expected duration of more than six hours, to the Traction Inspector or Chief Traction Inspector categories”.
In February, strikes called by various CP unions led to the suppression of hundreds of convoys a day.
