This month, the Minister for Infrastructure and Housing, Miguel Pinto Luz, announced that the Government is making the largest investment in the purchase of trains in Portugal with the acquisition of almost 200 new units at a cost of EUR1.8 billion. “ Tis is paradigmatic of the transformational change that the current government has instilled in CP s management and the ambition we have for CP,” he said. Te Minister was speaking in Aveiro during the signing of an addendum to a contract between CP and the Alstom-DST consortium for the acquisition of 36 more trains in addition to the 117 already provided for in the base contract signed in October. Historic day In his speech, Miguel Pinto Luz said this was a historic day, adding that between 2025 and 2031, there would be no year without the delivery of new rolling stock to CP. “We are talking about a total of more than 190 new trains for CP, representing the renewal of just over 40% of CP s total feet,” he said. Te Minister pointed out that the company had not received any trains for more than 20 years and that the average age of its feet was over 40 years, arguing that the country could not continue to survive with a CP with few trains and poor trains. Need for trains “Portugal needs more trains. Portugal needs trains sooner. Portugal urgently needs to renew its feet to serve all Portuguese people,” he said. In addition to the acquisition of rolling stock, Pinto Luz said that the Government is “empowering CP in human capital, with an agreement that has guaran-teed social peace, and with the ability to design pricing policies”, highlighting that the company transported more than 200 million passengers in 2025. Expanding CP “We want CP to be big, we want CP to be incumbent, and we want CP to keep its accounts in order, because it will have accounts to settle with the Portuguese people,” said the Minister. Te 36 additional railcars for urban service provided for in the addendum to the contract signed 10 March represent an investment of EUR318 million. In total, CP will acquire 153 trains (55 for regional service and 98 for urban service) worth EUR1.064 billion, thereby modernising and strengthening CP s ofer throughout the country. In addition to the renewal of the feet, this procedure also anticipates the last delivery of trains in 17 months, by 2031. Te new trains, which will begin arriving in Portugal in 2029, will also be produced domestically, as the contract provides for the installation of a workshop in Matosinhos, creating 300 direct jobs. Te Government has also authorised CP to purchase 12 high-speed trains, with an option for eight more, in an investment of EUR584 million.