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CZECH & POLAND PROFILE: CD CARGO
Essential steps of
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CD Cargo for
improved
performance
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The newly-founded, independent organisation, CD Cargo, intends to concentrate
on renewing its rolling-stock, supporting the construction of logistics centres
and improving the quality of the services it provides to its customers. In an
interview for European Railway Review, Josef Bazala, Chairman of the Board of
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Directors and Director General of CD Cargo, claims “Only with this strategy will
we succeed in continuing the growth tempo in carriage established in recent
years and reinforcing our share of the transportation market.”
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Josef Bazala, CEO, CD Cargo As an informed manager, of the 20th century. However, the end of
knowledgeable in the context of the socialist era saw a considerable lack of
Czech rail, could you give an overview finance for maintenance, never mind
of the railway system, its history and development. They then began to lose
its institutions in the Czech Republic? their customers during the economic boom
The Czech railway network is made up of of the 90s and also their position on the
approximately 2,700 railway stations and market following the enormous expansion
stops that connect some 9,500km of track of road transport in both segments –
– one third of which is electrified. passenger and freight transport. The state-
Therefore, the Czech rail network, with its run Czech Railways was transformed at
120km of track per thousand square the beginning of 2000.
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kilometres, is at the very summit of Ceské dráhy, a. s. (which translates as
countries with the highest density of Czech Railways, Joint Stock Company)
railway tracks in Europe. Czech Railways, was newly-founded in January 2003 on
as a carrier, is therefore able to build on a the basis of Act No. 77/2002 Coll. on the
fine, 170-year tradition of rail transport in Czech Railways Joint Stock Company as
the Czech lands. Of course, this brings one of two transportation successors to
with it advantages and disadvantages. The the former Czech Railways state
railway environment here is conservative organisation. The second of these
and is only able to accept modern changes successor companies is Správa železniční
with great caution. Czech railways dopravní cesty (the Railway Infrastructure
enjoyed their golden age in the second half Administration), a state organisation
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