Entrepreneurs in the terraplanning sector that today began a slow march of protest against the price of fuels from Paredes, Porto district, will meet on Monday with the government, the protestors' representative announced.
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25/09/2026
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Lusa
“ We received contact from the cabinet of the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing [Miguel Pinto Luz] yesterday [Thursday], noting that he is attentive to our demands and following which a meeting was scheduled for next Monday in Lisbon”I told Lusa Miguel Machado Mendes.
Miguel Machado Mendes spoke to Lusa minutes before the start of the slow march organized by entrepreneurs of this subsector of construction, who left Lordelo, Paredes, at 7:40 pm, heading towards A41, in the north-south direction, and then by A1, in the same direction, until Coimbra Sul, where it will end.
The march of about 140 kilometres started with more than a hundred cars, to demand “concrete responses” to the increase in fuel.
The representative of the promoters of the initiative estimated today in the place that are expected about half a thousand heavy in this protest, which will join along the way to Coimbra.
According to Miguel Machado Mendes, there are four points of concentration with more vehicles that will join the column, which gives them a “certainty of half a thousand heavy cars on the roads”.
“ What these companies are asking you to do is to listen to them, to hear our demands, to accept our requests. We understand that it is a fair fight and that defends the sector ", he added.
The march is being accompanied by GNR.
The protest brings together companies related to the extraction of inerts, transport, land movement and others from the terraplanning sector.
This construction subsector feels “very exposed and vulnerable to the increase in the cost of energy”, namely diesel, which is “a cost of production that means almost 70% of the final price” that companies present to customers.
“ Since 27 February this year, the price of diesel oil in Portugal has increased from EUR 1.59 to EUR 2.22 per litre, an increase of 63 cents per litre,” the promoters of the initiative put into a press release, admitting that this “historical rise” is leading to an “unsustainable scenario”.