Railway Industry in Poland: Two Rolling Stock Suppliers to Cooperate?

Two major Polish passenger rolling stock manufacturers, PESA of Bydgoszcz and FPS H. Cegielski want to cooperate on tram construction. The two companies have been competing for a long time. FPS already started to think ahead of possible new orders and decided to increase employment.

PESA won the contract to supply trams for Warsaw. H.Cegielski, who lost the battle for this order, appealed and it was decided that the each of the two competitors will supply a different kind units. Now the two companies want to create a consortium and conduct the production together.

The negotiations are in progress and their outcome is still uncertain as there is another rolling stock supplier who wants to cooperate with H.Cegielski - ZNTK Poznan.

ZNTK won an order from Wielkopolskie voivodship to supply DMUs and now, because of financial difficulties, has troubles with fullfilling the supplies. The company hopes that FPS might be of some help.

In December 2005 H.Cegielski signed a contract worth EUR 17m with PKP Regional Railways for modernizing 72 passenger coaches. PESA is currently manufacturing trams for Warsaw, DMUs for Ferrovie del Sud Est, DMUs for Wielkopolska region.
Source:railway-market.pl