Poland’s per-capita income is low. With the exception of Warsaw and the central part of the country the purchasing power of ordinary Polish citizens is fairly low. Renting vehicles is often considered a luxury. This attitude is less visible in Warsaw and totally non-existent in places like Paris, where a car is a basic commodity, Avis Polska Vicepresident Radosław Lesiak tells Polish Market’s Maciej Proliński.
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DB Schenker is the first Polish company in the TSL sector (transport, shipping, logistics) that has succeeded in achieving the EFQM Excellence Award. The EFQM Excellence Award is Europe’s most prestigious award for organizational excellence being an impartial recognition of a company’s exceptional organization with sustainable results across all areas, including leadership, partnership, policy and strategy and highly effective, efficient and continuously improved management system.
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Maciek Proliński of Polish Market talks with Krzysztof Opawski,
Chair of Group PKP (Polish State Railways) S.A. Supervisory Board
In your opinion, what progress has been made in implementing the “Strategy of railway transport expansion till 2013”? What is Group PKP’s position on European markets?
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“LOT is a company operating on an open and competitive market and it has to create economic value for shareholders. LOT has to be a profitable business. A positive audit report is expected in 2010 and later we want to earn substantial profits. There is no other way to manage an airline than focusing on its profitability,” says DARIUSZ NOWAK, President and Chief Executive Officer at LOT Polish Airlines.
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An important factor in economic cooperation is cooperation with one’s partners. It should be evident also in relations between the European Union and the East. Should participants in international debates be looking for success, an excellent example is the Euroterminal in Slawków – claims Paweł Podsiadło, board president and managing director of Central Office for Metallurgy Supplies (CZH SA) when talking to Jerzy Bojanowicz.
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Polish Market talks to Mr. Zbigniew Tracichleb, President and General Director at LHS Sp. z o.o. which manages a wide-gauge railway line running from southern Poland deep into Russia and the Far East. This railway line, as distinct from standard European gauge lines, enables easy access of bulk goods to eastern markets.
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The Jastrzębie Rail Company Ltd (Jastrzębska Spółka Kolejowa Sp. z o.o., JSK) operates railway junctions and sidings in the mines Borynia, Zofiówka, Pniówek, Krupiński and Jas-Mos, as well as the reload station PZO Pawłowice Górnicze.
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“PKP Energetyka is a member of PKP Group. Our core business is to supply electricity to other companies of the Group, particularly electricity for traction purposes, i.e. needed to power electric traction vehicles. The licenses for electricity sales, transmission and distribution the company received at the start of its operations make it possible for PKP Energetyka to attract customers from outside the railway sector,” says Tadeusz Skobel, President of PKP Energetyka Sp. z o.o.
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