PKP Intercity suffers a setback as its visionary CEO resigns

"My resignation was not forced upon me. This is not the result of emotions, impulse or change of seasons," said Przesluga. As recently as Friday, the Transport Minister finally signed a long awaited contract with PKP Intercity and PKP PR concerning subsidies to international and national carriers. Both companies will receive in total zl.250 million in 2006. PKP Intercity will receive zl.30 million of this sum, so its full year profit will probably be the highest ever and will stand at zl.40 million. "It became the only railway company, which seriously treated the rule that without a client there is no railway," said Adrian Furgalski, a rail sector analyst. "A visionary, but not from this story and not of these times. He tried to implement marketing concepts, which are perfect in other sectors, e.g. airlines. Regretfully he landed in an unhealthy plot," said Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz, deputy chairman of the Sejm Infrastructure Commission. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 6) M.M.