Mota-Engil is a Portuguese group in the sectors of civil construction, public works, port operations, waste, water, and logistics.

The Mota-Engil Group comprises 228 companies within three major business areas – Engineering and construction, Environment and Services and Transport concessions – operating in 21 countries through its branches and subsidiaries, including Mota-Engil Engenharia e Construção, S.A., Tertir,[4] SUMA,[5] INDAQUA,[6] Manvia, Vibeiras,[7] Ascendi[8] and Martifer.

Until 1974 Mota & Companhia operations focused on the Angolan territory, firstly in the exploration and processing of timber and as of 1948 also in the area of construction and public works.

Engil acquired for Portugal the exclusive rights of use of the Siemcrete patented sliding forms system, allowing it to carry out countless major works involving silos and chimneys.

That year Engil SGPS was incorporated endeavoring to meet the evolving public and private works market and the need to diversify its activities.

It went into business in real estate development, road signs, prefabrication of structural elements, ceramics, asphalt masses, commercialization of vehicles and equipment, maritime transport and the paint industry.

In 1994 Mota & Companhia comprised the construction consortium of the Vasco da Gama Bridge, in Lisbon connecting the north and south banks of the Tagus River.

Hence, Lusoponte, a concessionary company of the Tagus road crossing downstream of Vila Franca de Xira, was incorporated.

On 23 July 1999, the companies of the Mota family launched a take-over bid for the whole of the equity capital of Engil SGPS; this led to the constitution of the Mota-Engil Group in 2000.

In 2014 the Mota-Engil Group acquired Empresa Geral de Fomento (EGF) in a public tender, began operations in Uganda, and was awarded a contract in Cameroon worth $3.5 billion,[12] the largest in its history.

On 26 May 2008 the Board of Directors of Mota-Engil SGPS deliberated the constitution of an Executive Committee and Jorge Coelho being appointed chairman, a position he held until 2013.

In 2006, Mota-Engil was the target of searches and its leader António Mota accused in 2009 for involvement in defrauding the tax system worth several hundred million euros, among 700 others suspects.

[20] In 2012, Mota-Engil was accused in Malawi of bribing the late former president Bingu Wa Mutharika with more than 40 thousand euros, which were offered in exchange for contracts between 2010 and 2011.

At issue was the allegation of joining an illicit association led by former president Cristina Kirchner to divert money from public works on a weekly basis.

[24] In 2020, Mota-Engil announced the sale of more than 30% of its capital to the Chinese public company CCCC, one of the largest infrastructure groups in the world.