Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
Passenger transport increased in all modes of transport, except in metro
What the source reported
Source-reported<p>In the 2nd quarter of 2026, 73.0 million passengers travelled by metro which corresponded to a year-on-year reduction of 1.0% (-2.2% in 1st Q 2026). In the same period, rail transport moved 62.9 million passengers, representing a growth of 6.2% (+0.8% in 1st Q 2026).</p> <p>National airports handled 20.8 million passengers, corresponding to a year-on-year increase of 1.5% (+3.9% in the 1st Q 2026). Passenger transport by inland waterways moved 6.2 million, which represented an increase of 0.4% compared with the same quarter of 2025 (-3.2% in the 1st Q 2026).</p> <p>Freight transport registered a decrease in road mode (-3.6%; -12.6% in 1st Q 2026) and rail (-2.2%; -1.9% in 1st Q 2026). On the other hand, maritime and air transport grew 5.0% and 1.0%, respectively, after 6.5% and 0.3% reductions in 1st Q 2026.</p> <p>Oil transport by pipeline increased 3.4% compared with the same period of last year (+5.0% in 1st Q 2026). Gas transport by pipeline registered increases in both input (+14.3%; +11.0% in 1st Q 2026) and output (+15.0%; +11.7% in previous quarter).</p> <p></p>
- Publication
- Statistics Portugal (INE) - press releases RSS · Official Statistics
- Published
- 8th September 2026
- Original report
- ine.pt
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Portugal
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 28th September 2026 · 16:27
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
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Initial Significance Moderate (35.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (51.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth