The event, taking place at the IP headquarters in Almada, Setúbal district, will be attended by the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz.
The first section of the high-speed line originally planned for the construction of a dual-deck road-rail bridge over the Douro River, the redevelopment of Porto-Campanhã station, and the building of a new underground station in Vila Nova de Gaia, in the Santo Ovídio area.
However, in April, the LusoLav consortium (Mota-Engil, Teixeira Duarte, Alves Ribeiro, Casais, Conduril, and Gabriel Couto), awarded the design, construction, financing, and maintenance of the line, proposed an alternative solution to the Gaia City Council. This involved altering the route, constructing two bridges instead of one over the Douro River, and locating the Gaia station at Vilar do Paraíso instead of Santo Ovídio.
The high-speed line is expected to connect Porto and Lisbon in one hour and 15 minutes by 2032, with possible stops in Gaia, Aveiro, Coimbra, and Leiria. The Porto-Vigo journey (via Porto Airport, Braga, Ponte de Lima, and Valença) is expected to take 50 minutes by 2032.
The first phase (Porto-Soure) of the high-speed line in Portugal should be completed by 2030, and the second (Soure-Carregado) by 2032, ensuring a connection to Lisbon via the Northern Line.
According to the previous government, which launched the first high-speed public-private partnership (PPP), the investment costs for the Lisbon-Valença axis are estimated at seven to eight billion euros.
