In brief: Warsaw's travel fair; PKP Cargo truck transport; Smithfield Europe
Over 180 travel agents, hotels, health resorts and airlines from Austria,
the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Italy will promote their
facilities and services during the Sixth Annual Travel Agents Fair held in
Warsaw on April 20. The price of 1 square meter of display area is $99 plus
22% VAT. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p.5)... Beginning in mid-year PKP Cargo, the
railway freight transport unit of State Railways PKP, will launch regular
railway transport of trucks between Rzepin and Brzesc. According to the
company, this year it will be able to transport 3,000 to 8,000 trucks this
way. (Puls Biznesu, p.9)...American Smithfield Foods has established a
European subsidiary, Smithfield Europe. The new body comprises Smithfield's
two foreign companies, Polish Animex and French SBS. (Rzeczpospolita, p.B3)
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