Members: PKP Cargo is on its way to liquidation

PKP Cargo is in the process of restructuring leading to liquidation, the PiS MPs assessed on Thursday. In their view, group exemptions and sale of the company's assets may be a deliberate action against it, so they ‘consider’ filing a announcement to the prosecution in this case.

On Tuesday, the president of the PKP Cargo Agnieszka Wasilewska-Semail attended the gathering of the infrastructure committee. She said that the company would proceed to "apply to cover those damages which were straight or indirectly caused to the company" by the alleged coal decision of 2022, then Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, when, after the embargo on Russian coal on the Polish market, there was a shortage of this natural material. The erstwhile board of PKP Cargo directed the company's rolling stock to transport coal from Baltic ports, which was at the expense of abandoning another commercial and profitable orders.

The case was referred to at a press conference in the Sejm by erstwhile PiS MP Dariusz Seliga, who at the time led the company. – This coal decision for this time was 1 of the best decisions the Polish government could take, thus ensuring the safety of Polish society. present we talk about it from a different perspective, of course, but then it had its weight – he argued.

He added that whether PKP Cargo is to "carry and for what" imported coal, "it did not substance at all at the time". – It mattered whether the PKP Cargo could distribute (coal) so that people would not frost so that in nursing homes, in children's homes, in hospitals there they would deficiency heat – stressed the erstwhile president of the company.

Seliga and the PiS MPs, including Andrzej Adamczyk, who was the Minister of Infrastructure in the Government of the United Right, then pointed out that the actions of the current power were acting to harm the Cargo PKP.

– It is not only the dismissal of thousands of well-educated, professionally prepared to carry out the transport tasks of workers. It is besides a sale of movable and immovable property – said erstwhile MI chief. As he pointed out, it is about selling properties of strategical importance or more than 10 1000 freight wagons – alleged carbides. – PKP Cargo is undergoing restructuring leading to liquidation Adamczyk assessed it.

PiS MP Mariusz Krystian pointed out that the carriages for which PKP Cargo has announced a tender for scrapping are multifunctional and may inactive be useful. – Specification of this procedure [to tender] points out that the scrapping of these wagons is purely theoretical due to the fact that it takes place only and only on the basis of a declaration which, with specified a quantity of wagons sold, is in rule uncheckable said Mariusz Krystian. He added that in specified a case there is simply a anticipation that the wagons would buy back competition.

In addition, Krystian, referring to dismissals, pointed out that training of qualified staff was time-consuming and costly, and, as he said, “many thousands have already been released, and for this year and for another year there are over 2.5 1000 people planned for dismissal”.

Krystian estimated that the activities of the PKP Cargo Executive Board led to ‘generous silver devastation’ which would be ‘impossible to be reproduced or very hard to reproduce. – Therefore, our conduct in this case and so hard attitude regarding the anticipation of notifying the prosecution regarding the activities of the Management Board of PKP Cargo Krystian said.

On the another hand, PiS MP Tadeusz Chrzan pointed out that after further examination of all the activities of the company's board of directors "in the name of work for Polish national assets", PiS politicians would be forced to address the prosecution's question, "whether these actions are indeed characterised by ineptness, or whether they are considered to quit the Polish transport market."

In a discussion with PAP, the president of the Sejm Committee on economical Affairs and Development, Rafał Komareewicz (Poland 2050), referred to the allegations of PiS politicians. – I would like to remind you that during the reign of the Polish Railway Station, Cargo recorded respective 100 million starts in any years. The request to carry out hard restructuring measures is so due to many years of negligence – Komarewicz said. – Sanction proceedings of PKP Cargo is simply a process conducted on the basis of a court order, under strict supervision by law – he added.

Komarewicz besides stressed that regardless of legal issues, rail transport is 1 of the key areas for the Polish economy and this must be taken into account in all the activities that concern it. – Therefore, as president of the Sejm Committee on economical Affairs and Development, I will monitor this issue. This should be a cross-party issue, due to the fact that in the game there are improvement opportunities of Poland said the MP.

PKP Cargo is simply a stock company listed on the WSE. The share of PKP S.A. in the capital of PKP Cargo is 33.01 percent. It offers logistics services, combining rail, car and sea transport. It provides its own freight services in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovenia.

In July 2024, the court opened a restructuring procedure for the company. besides in July, the board decided to carry out group dismissals by the company's establishments and headquarters, resulting in a decrease of 3,665 employees. Currently, PKP Cargo employs about 10,000 people. At the beginning of June this year, PKP Cargo one more time reported that it intended to carry out group exemptions. This time they would cover up to 1041 employees in 2025 and by 1388 in 2026. At the end of June, the Management Board proposed to quit any of the privileges resulting from the PPO and to replace them with a incentive system.

Source: PAP