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Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49.2 - Freight rail transport 49.20 - Freight rail transport
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 September 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
PKP Cargo, Poland’s largest railway freight carrier, has announced that will employ 500 train drivers in 2016. New employees will receive special training and the company expenditures to cover the cost of this programme are estimated to PLN 20 mn (EUR 4.71 mn USD 5.36 mn). PKP Cargo Group is the second largest railway freight carrier in Europe. Currently, the company employs 4,200 train drivers across the country.
Sources
16 September 2015: Puls Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2015), PKP Cargo, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 85106, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/85106.