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Management Report of the Board of Directors - Financial Year 2008<br />

accordance with the benchmark standards OHSAS<br />

18001:2007; ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004,<br />

respectively.<br />

For the current year, the company intents to certify its<br />

Research, Development and Innovation (IDI) Management<br />

and Social Responsibility Systems in accordance with the<br />

benchmark standards NP 4457:2007 and SA 8000:2008,<br />

respectively, thus seeing the practices that it has gradually<br />

implemented in these areas being recognised by a certifying<br />

entity.<br />

52 LIFTECH / Railway Track Installation for the Funicular of Viseu<br />

During the period under review, the Company invested EUR<br />

3,550 thousand, basically continuing what it has been doing<br />

for the past years to transform/adapt the equipment to<br />

European standards, besides the Iberian ones.<br />

In the second quarter of 2009, SOMAFEL, S.A. will be<br />

receiving two new pieces of highly productive equipment<br />

suitable for use in the most demanding railway networks<br />

across Europe: a Universal Heavy-Duty Tamping Machine for<br />

open track and B66U-type AMV’s (Track Switching Devices),<br />

Matisa’s high-end model, already equipped with a modern<br />

computer system “CATT-Computer Aided Track Tamping” for<br />

the automatic steering of the machine during the railway track<br />

layout rectification operation, as well as a high performance<br />

Ballast Grader, model R21LS of Matisa.<br />

OFM - Obras Públicas, Ferroviárias e Marítimas, S.A. is a<br />

company 100% owned by SOMAFEL, S.A. and specialises in<br />

rail, maritime and river infrastructures.<br />

In 2008, this company reported, on an individual basis, an<br />

operating profit of EUR 36,478 thousand, which represents a<br />

46.6% increase over the previous year. From this income,<br />

approximately 73% was generated in the internal market and<br />

the rest in Algeria.<br />

Among the works developed in Portugal during the year<br />

under review, the most significant were:<br />

In the railway sector:<br />

- Completion of the contract job for the “Design and<br />

construction of the Sto Ovídio terminal, executed under a<br />

consortium arrangement, for “Metro do Porto, S.A.”;<br />

This investee company has also reinforced its traction<br />

material park with the acquisition of three totally reconditioned<br />

diesel-electric locomotives.<br />

For 2009, not a very significant increase of the railway<br />

infrastructures sub-sector activity is foreseen in Portugal, but<br />

it is expected that SOMAFEL, S.A. will achieve a turnover not<br />

below EUR 49,000 thousand, essentially as a result of its<br />

operation in the afore-mentioned external markets.<br />

In the year under review, SOMAFEL, S.A. kept its Safety,<br />

Quality and Environmental Management Systems certified in<br />

53 Metro do Porto / Design and Construction of Santo Ovídio Underground Terminal / Porto<br />

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