Veolia guaging entry to railway sector

Until recently the company specialized in bus transport and over the past eight years it has managed to purchase 14 passenger transport enterprises in different parts of the country. "Veolia Transport knows the Polish market well, not only bus transport. An advantage of the newly created railway company is its large, private financial backing," said Adrian Furgalski, a railway market analyst. The new entity has already expressed its will to participate in a tender for regional transport on the Bytom-Gliwice-Bytom route, organized by the Silesian voivodeship. According to Furgalski, private passenger transport companies can enter the Polish market thanks to tenders organized by local governments. (Puls Biznesu, pp.1, 6) M.M.