On Monday, a press conference was held by the president of the Orlen group, Ireneusz Fąfara, and the Minister of State Assets, Wojciech Balczun. It has been concluded contract for the supply of locomotives from Polish manufacturers – between Orlen Kolej, PESA and NEWAG and PKO Leasing. Also signed declaration on increasing the share of Polish companies in strategic energy investments between Orlen and the Ministry of State Assets.
PESA and NEWAG will deliver new locomotives
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The value of the contract covering the locomotives is over PLN 800 million. It is expected to provide over 5,000. jobs. 20 locomotives are to be delivered by PESA, and 20 by NEWAG. More than 2,500 Polish, medium and small cooperating companies are to take part in the implementation of the contract.
As NEWAG announced in a report after the conference, the locomotives will be delivered in 2028 and will be handed over to Orlen on the basis of leasing agreements with PKO Leasing. The value of this contract is over PLN 438 million net.
Orlen’s billion-dollar investments
– We are the fastest growing energy company in Europe and the second in the world. (…) We generate high profits and invest PLN 21 billion this year. And today we will add another billion (…). We want this money to become an impulse for the development of the country, the energy sector, companies – said the president of Orlen, Ireneusz Fąfara, who signed a declaration on increasing the share of Polish companies in strategic energy investments. The second signatory was Wojciech Balczun, head of the Ministry of State Assets.
Fąfara announced that a new project will begin soon, and more information about it will be provided from January 1.
– We’re going out into the field. We will create supplier days, first in provincial and district cities, to share knowledge to our Polish companies about what we do, how we do it, what we expect, how you can cooperate with us – he emphasized.
MAP focuses on re-Polonization
– The Ministry of State Acts has developed a list of priorities for the second part of the term. We reported them to the Council of Ministers and our three priorities that we submitted were accepted and adopted, they are part of the government program. We approach it much more broadly, not only thinking about the immediate political calendar, but actually about building foundations for a modern, well-organized economy that thinks about its own entrepreneurs and this is something that has a longer horizon and this is something that is the result of our ambitions and thinking in terms of being the 20th economy in the world – said Wojciech Balczun, head of MAP.
He emphasized that re-Polonization and the domestic component in supply chains this is something that is crucial for the government.
– Most of these most important investment projects are implemented to a large extent by the public sector, directly by State Treasury companies or by various types of funds available, for example, under KPO and We cannot imagine that Polish companies would not be the beneficiaries of this – he assured.
Orlen Kolej focuses on cooperation with private companies
The minister assessed that the purchase of Polish locomotives by Orlen Kolej is part of this project, based on cooperation between public and private companies.
– Modern locomotives are effective, more profitable transport. This is also the development of the entire sector. We have many ambitious plans for the future of Orlen Kolej. We are talking about it with the Orlen management board and the supervisory board, he said.
He assessed that the country has “great, still unused potential that can support the development of rail freight transport in Poland.”
