– The company is financially in the intensive care unit. But I am sure, and I hear this from the head doctor, the new president, Dr. Marcin Wojewódka, that the patient will live. All those who are worried about PKP Cargo, I assure you that this company will survive and return to glory, because it is extremely important for our economy – assured Dariusz Klimczak on Friday in Polsat News.
What's next for PKP Cargo? Dariusz Klimczak: The company is on the right track
He explained that in the coming weeks the main challenge for the Ministry of Infrastructure will be to “complete the restructuring PKP Cargo”. – It is true that this is a listed company, but it is not a typical State Treasury company. The PKP group has shares in it, 33%. However, I feel responsible for this company, which is being restructured for the second time. Our predecessors brought it to a terrible condition – he added.
Klimczak also said that the layoffs at PKP Cargo are “one of the elements of restructuring”. – The basic one is new orders. We recently signed a new contract for the delivery of coal from Bogdanka to one of the energy companies. We won another large tender for several hundred million zlotys. Our predecessors were unable to do this – said the head of the Ministry of Infrastructure.
– The company is on the right track, we are stabilizing its finances, strengthening its market position, and we will take care of its employees. We have signed several letters of intent, where 2,000 PKP Cargo employees have the opportunity to move to, for example, PKP Intercity, PKP Intercity Remtrak, PKP PLK, and even other companies that are not related to PKP, e.g. Budimex – explained Dariusz Klimczak.
PKP Cargo Management Board notified the prosecutor's office regarding Jacek Sasin's case
PKP Cargo has signed three contractsbased on which it will transport hard coal to the Enea Group power plant. The value of the contracts is PLN 138.4 million. The company will transport coal from the “Bogdanka” mine to the Kozienice Power Plant. The contract provides that PKP Cargo will transport 9 million tons of hard coal by March 2026.
On Wednesday, September 4th The management board of PKP Cargo informed about the submission of a notification on suspicion of committing a crime by the former Minister of State Assets Jacek Sasin. The company indicated that it was about the failure to conclude an agreement with PKP Cargo in 2022 regarding the transport of coal purchased by PGE companies Fuels and Węglokoks. The complainant found that the former minister could have acted in this way to the detriment of public and private interests.
Jacek Sasin criticized PKP Cargo's decision. “I understand that a show is needed so that Poles don't see how you are destroying the State Treasury, but we have been stuck in the fumes of absurdity for too long” – he wrote on social mediaThe PiS politician added that the company's management submitted a notification, although according to the current management of the ministry, the costs to PKP Cargo in connection with the 2022 decision have been fully covered.