CP – Comboios de Portugal transported, in the first half of this year, 70 million passengers, a growth of 77.5% compared to the same period last year, exceeding by 4.1% the values obtained in 2019, the operator reported in a statement. .
Thus, the company “registered, in the first half of 2022, an increase in demand of 77.5%, when compared to the same period in 2021, which translates into some 70 million passengers transported,” he said, indicating that “the increase in demand is transversal to all services and it is in the Long Distance service that it is accentuated morearound 140%, that is, 1.5 million more passengers compared to the first half of 2021″.
Regional trains, for their part, closed the semester “with a positive variation of 83.5%, which corresponds to some 2.3 million more passengers transported”, and urban services registered “also an increase in demand” compared to the first half of 2021, with 52 million passengers transported on the Lisbon Urban Trains (an increase in demand of 74.2%), on the Oporto Urban Trains 10 million passengers (an increase of 80.7% ) and in the Urbanos de Coimbra a total of 415 thousand passengers (more than 68.8%)”, said CP.
In this context, “traffic revenues were of the order of 110 million euroswhich represented an increase of 98% compared to 2021,” CP said, adding that, compared to the first half of 2019, still in the pre-pandemic period, in the first six months of this year, “CP transported 4, 1% more passengers”, but “revenues are still 15% lower than those registered at that time”.
CP receives with great satisfaction this increase in the demand for its transport services, considering that the results achieved are close to the levels registered in 2019, the year in which CP transported 145 million passengers”, concluded the operator.
Source: Observadora
