Poland: White Paper - a road map for solving the problems of railway sector in Poland

On January 18th Railway Business Forum, an association gathering companies operating in the railway industry in Poland, presented a document defining the problems that the railway sector in Poland now faces and that arose during the 20 years after the economic transformation.

The 200-page document was created under the guidance of Tadeusz Syryjczyk, former minister of transport, currently senior expert at TOR Transport Consultants Group in the umbrella of Railway Business Forum and in cooperation with the Polish Academy of Sciences and TOR Transport Consultants Gruop.

The document defines the problems bothering railways in the areas of the transport policy and PKP restructuring processes, infrastructure, passenger services, freight services, rolling stock, railway stations, services and industry. It is available in
at the at Rynek Kolejowy website (pdf download) and will be thoroughly described in the Railway Market - CEE Review issue 1/2010.

The authors, enlisting the problems, backing their reflections by a number of documents and data accumulated by various players involved in the Polish railway market provided a list of conclusions and tasks necessary to be implemented urgently in order to heal the situation.

A brief summary is provided on railwaymarket.eu. It reveals a lot of problems that are common in all Visegrad countries, and it is an important read for investors and suppliers in this vast market. More details and cross-country comparisons after the publication of the English version.