UTK appoints new president

Poland’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction announced on Friday that its Railway Transport Office (UTK) would be headed by Ignacy Góra, according to a Polish press report. Mr. Góra, a graduate of Kraków University of Technology, has extensive experience in the railway industry, having taken part in the restructuring of PKP Cargo and served as representative for PKP in the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies. UTK is the central body of the government administration which looks after licensing and regulation of rail transport, technical supervision of operations and maintenance of railway lines and rail vehicles, railway traffic safety and licensing and certification of drivers, among other responsibilities. It had a budget of PLN 31.3 million in 2015, and has seven branch offices across Poland.