Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Wojciech Balczun, former president of PKP Cargo, appointed head of the Ukrainian state railway – Polish Radio


                             In 2015. PKP Cargo Group recorded 31.6 million zł net profit to 78 million zł in 2014. And transported 116 million tons of goods (an increase of 5 percent. Yoy) – said on Friday the president of PKP Cargo Maciej Libiszewski.
                         

As explained in 2015. Category shipping felt the problems of the Polish mining industry.

– In the past year, our market environment was quite demanding, industry shipping felt Polish mining problems, we also see that from the beginning of the year przyhamowały investments in turn related to the new EU perspective. It all had an impact on our results – said Libiszewski.

The company expands market share

– Despite the declining market is not only not lost, but increased their shares in the transport of coal. For us, the problem has always been so. peak of carriage “- he said. He explained that the summit fell usually October and November, when it turned out that the company does not have enough cars to transport. – Last year it was basically an event such as the summit of lading, for carriage have been spread on a few months and we hope that we will continue to do so – he added.

the share of the group PKP Cargo in the Polish rail freight market was in 2015. 55.8 per cent. in terms of transport performance and 47.7 per cent. in terms of weight. As stated Libiszewski despite the market turmoil in 2015. income group PKP Cargo amounted to 4.55 billion zł (an increase of 7 percent. yoy), with the operating costs of 4.5 billion zł (an increase of 8 percent. yoy).

Release 4000 employees

– an important element of the cost optimization was completed in 2015. voluntary redundancy program. We said goodbye to 4 thousand. employees it means for us a minimum of 130 million zł savings per year – added Libiszewski.

He noted that the company has not changed the strategy presented by the previous management. “We are still at the stage of looking at processes that are already in the company started. We want to strengthen the foreign markets and develop intermodal transport,” – he said.

Target the yellow jersey leader

He pointed out that the main objectives that PKP Cargo will soon realize that maintaining leadership station in the area of ​​freight in the country, full service freight traffic, and becoming the leading intermodal operator in Europe.

– the most important for us in the near future will be complementary, that is, that is not the client worried here’s how to transport goods, just so that we worried about the performance of the service. That is why it is important to move away from the upright position and centralization of management proposed in recent years, which works eg .: in banks and insurance companies and other financial institutions and not in the forwarding and logistics company, in which decisions must be taken quickly – he added Libiszewski.

He said that the company in the near future will not “compete price” for customers. – Recent years have seen a fight price, this price has fallen by up to several dozen percent. We need to think about to end with price competition, we will compete quality, will compete kolejarską know. That’s why we go back to the people of proven and experienced people, who in turn spent half of his life, if not all, go back to the people who know what to do and nothing you do not need to explain to them. At this base strategy for our success in the future – he pointed.

He said that the company has access to more than 1 billion zł funds for investments, of which 280 million zł is cash.

PKP Cargo it is the largest freight rail carrier in Poland and the second in the European Union. October 30, 2013. Made its debut on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Warsaw. The company is currently included in the index mWIG40. Its main shareholder is the PKP SA.

The Group has 48 thousand. wagons, 3 thousand. intermodal platforms, 15 thousand. other wagons of another type, 1.3 thousand. electric locomotives and as many locomotives. It employs approx. 23 thousand. people.

PAP, abo

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