Water connection suspended: Port Brandão – Trafaria – Pedroulços/Algés

A porto Brandão – Trafaria – Pedrouços/Algés will be suspended on Wednesday, due to the closure of the Algés Maritime Tour, in Oeiras, where the Pedrouços/Algés River Station is located, today released the Transtejo Soflusa (TTSL).

The company announced, in a statement released tonight, that “alternatively, TTSL passengers can use the link Trafaria – Porto Brandão – Belém”.

The president of Transtejo Soflusa had previously advanced that the river careers between Lisbon and the South Bank of the Tagus will be ensured on Wednesday morning, keeping the service within the normal range possible.

In statements to the Lusa agency, Rui Rei explained that the situation is being monitored hour by hour and that, in the event of a worsening of the state of time and the sea, more restrictive measures will be taken that may go through the interruption of the service.

The responsible said that, during the morning, the service will be done “within what is possible to say that is normal”, thus guaranteeing the transportation to citizens who want to circulate between the two margins, some of them stressed, essential service workers such as hospitals.

Rui Rei ensures that the company is in permanent contact with Civil Protection in order to evaluate the situation due to red warning issued for Wednesday.

Transtejo ensures the river connections between Lisbon and Barreiro, Belém, Cais do Sodré, Cacilhas, Montijo, Pedroulços/Algés, Porto Brandão, Seixal and Trafaria, in the so-called South Bank.

Continental Portugal is in a state of alert, between 00:00 and 23:59 Wednesday, due to the foreseeable worsening of the state of time with the arrival of depression Charles, it is expected that Lisbon, Leiria, Setúbal, Beja and Faro will be the most affected regions.

The gravity of the scenario led the government to decide to close non-essential public schools and services in all districts, and the authorities admitted closing bridges and air traffic restrictions.

According to Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), “the occurrence of heavy rain or shower periods, strong wind, with gusts that can reach 120 km/h and, in case of formation of the phenomenon ‘sting jet’ (air current rapidly descending inside an extratropical depression, accelerating towards the surface), exceed 150 km/h”.