Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – Two state-owned transportation companies, PKP PR (regional) and PKP Intercity applied for PLN 12 billion (EUR 2.9 billion) for investments. They are aware that they will never receive so high funds.
‘Modernisation of 82 carriages is the most important and we have fund to do that. We should modernise at least all electric trains but now we can afford to repair just 75 units’, Leszek Ruta, PKP PR CEO enumerated. This month, the company will announce a tender to deliver 11 new electric trains. Three projects, funded partly from EU, will cost PLN 400m. Intercity is also looking for money to buy new trains. It considers issuing bonds, leasing or loan. ‘We lack carriages. Modernising 100 of them would help, but this year, we will modernise only 35. We get not subsidies because the company will be privatised’, Jacek Przsluga, PKP Intercity CEO said.
PKP Intercity has 1,211 passenger carriers, including 263 which are not used because must be modernised. In 2004, the company bought 10 carriages. PKP PR has 3,500 carriages and 870 electric trains, which are 30 years old on average. In the last 10 years, there were 7 tenders in Poland for transport companies. In EU, over 620 tenders.
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