29th March 2004
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
The green light for new operators to run rail lines
The Infrastructure Ministry is encouraging local governments to introduce competition in regional rail transport.
Following the decentralization of regional railways to the voivodship level from the beginning of this year, voivodships may contract the running of their railways to private operators, rather than take the customary route of co-operating with Polish State Railways (PKP). "In our region I see room for allowing private operators into routes with lower traffic volume, which will be serviced by railbuses," said the deputy head of the Mazowieckie voivodship Bogusław Kowalski. So far, 33 carriers have obtained licenses to provide railway transport services, but only four of them, all PKP subsidiaries, are providing passenger services. (Puls Biznesu, p. 8) T.J.
From Warsaw Business Journal
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