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Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49.2 - Freight rail transport 49.2 - Freight rail transport
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 March 2015
Employment effect (start)
12 March 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
PKP Cargo, Poland’s largest railway freight carrier, has announced its plan to employ 500 workers by the end of 2015. New employees will receive special training before starting to work as train drivers. According to the source in 2014 the company has already employed 500 people who are undergoing two-year training to become qualified train drivers.
PKP Cargo Group is the second largest railway freight carrier in Europe. After completion of the large restructuring programme in 2014, the company employs at the moment 22,000 people across the country.
Sources
12 March 2015: Bankier
Citation
Eurofound (2015), PKP Cargo, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 79174, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/79174.