Type
Business expansion
Country
Poland
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Transportation / Storage
Land, Water And Air Transportation
Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines
49.20 - Freight rail transport

500 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
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://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85106.