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06.07.2020
Transfer results for May 2020
Transfer results for May 2020 have shown the return of passengers to using railway services. In comparison to April of 2020 the number of passengers rose by more than 60%. An even bigger increase was witnessed with regard to transfer service numbers - by 81%. In freight transfers both transfer and operational services rose in comparison to April.
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29.06.2020
International passenger trains back in service
Amendment to the Regulation by the Council of Ministers has allowed Polish railway carriers to resume - starting from 13 June 2020 - the operations of international connections among Schengen zone states. Operations of international trains crossing external European Union borders are still suspended.
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22.06.2020
Intermodal transport in Q1 2020
In Q1 of this year 5.4 million tonnes of goods were transported by intermodal mode. Such a high result has been noted for the first time. For years one could have observed a steady rise in the number of transported units. In Q1 2020 all parametres rose in comparison to the corresponding period of last year.
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15.06.2020
2019 annual report by the Railway Passenger Rights’ Ombudsman
263 applications to start a proceeding and 184 other applications were filed with the Railway Passenger Rights’ Ombudsman in 2019. 30% of the proceedings were the appeals against no-ticket penalties, 24% - requests for compensation for late or cancelled trains and 19% - requests for reimbursement for unused tickets. Those are the details from the annual report by Railway Passenger Rights’ Ombudsman for 2019.
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08.06.2020
Market pillar of the 4th Railway Package comes into effect
As of 12 May 2020 important changes to the Polish act on railway transport have come into effect. They adjust national rules to the market pillar of the 4th Railway Package. The technical pillar of the Package should come into effect on 16 June 2020. However due to the COVID-19 pandemic the European Commission has postponed this date by three months.
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01.06.2020
April 2020 transfer results
Restrictions introduced in order to contain COVID-19 have had noticible impact on transfer results with regard to railways. In April of 2020 a little over 6 million passengers chose to travel by rail - that's over 75% less then in April of last year. And with regard to rail freight services around 16.7 million tonnes of goods were transported in April.
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25.05.2020
Punctuality of trains in Q1 2020
In the first quarter of 2020 94.68% of passenger trains and 47.49% of freight trains reached their destinations on time. In both types of transfers a significant rise in punctuality was noted in comparison to last year. Such result was caused by - among others - the decrease in the number of passenger trains - consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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18.05.2020
Railway Sidings' Development Programme - an agreement between UTK and PKP
Mr. Ignacy Góra, Ph.D., the President of the Office of Rail Transport (Pol. Urząd Transportu Kolejowego, UTK) and the management of PKP S.A. have signed a cooperation agreement on the preparation of a "Railway Sidings' Development Programme". The signing was performed by way of exchange of documents.
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11.05.2020
Railway freight transport - report from consultations
Duration and cost of freight transfer are the main barriers of the railway freight transport. Such is the outcome from opinions gathered by the Office of Rail Transport (Pol. Urząd Transportu Kolejowego, UTK) and published in the "Report from the consultations with organisations representing the users of railway freight transport services". These consultations were carried out in 2019.
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04.05.2020
Railway transfer results for March 2020
Over 17.7 million passengers and almost 19.3 million tonnes of transported goods - these are the transfer results for March of 2020. Those are the effects of coronavirus epidemic. They are especially noticeable with regard to passenger transport, where the number of passengers fell by almost 37% in comparison to the same period of last year. And freight transport reached better levels than in January and February.
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