June 15, 2016
Volker Kefers departure should have improved the chance of Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube to a renewal of his expiring end of 2017 contract significantly.
Last has Volker Kefer, 60, personally to broken escalators and elevators at stations attended. Or why that defective board toilets can be exchanged in an ICE at the turn in Munich within 20 minutes. Kefer has the “action pointer jump” staged so that the chronically belated distance trains depart at least in Germany’s ten most important railway stations like Federal Railways Times at the second time. And demanded by 185 000 railway employees a change of direction in thinking: “We have realized that we have to face the issue of quality and customer clearly to the fore.”
has Utilized him all the nothing. The most powerful by Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube Board, responsible for infrastructure and technology, the program “future path” and since 2010 also for the billion project Stuttgart 21, must go.
He will not renew his contract, which expires in September 2017 and only as long remain in office until a successor is found. The Supervisory Board had accused him to have declared the cost and schedule for Stuttgart 21 three months ago, that everything is in balance, and then type 14 days ago that the cost of risk would increase by another 623 million euros and the major project at the earliest in 2022
whether Kefer is ultimately tripped over his ineffective information policy to Stuttgart 21, if he has taken and torn too many tasks per se, or his departure will finish. the consequence of a lost power struggle with mine is, since Tuesday is no longer important. Fact: The Super-Management Board, the problems remain. Not only the major project Stuttgart 21
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“one thing is quite clear,” said a railway insider, “any successor will assess the new risks of which Kefer still think was that he could manage it, to go not equal with a lead-heavy backpack at the start. Only through a personnel change is Stuttgart 21 now definitely more expensive and finish later. “
The Supervisory located after the voluntary in the official version withdrawal Kefers in a very comfortable position, so the connoisseurs. “The bad news that Stuttgart 21 is significantly more expensive, out what anyway all knew in principle. The Supervisory Board may now outraged, but consequences do not arise for him. “After all, you have agreed with the web, display only the cost risks in Stuttgart 21 in three-month intervals, which will arrive with more than 50 per cent probability. “Kefer has kept it,” says the insider. “One could Stuttgart debacle therefore be assessed differently. The Supervisory Board did not want to know everything”
These times should be over by the end of Kefer era. This risk is the successor Kefer not eigehen certainly. But first rail pit boss has to face the question of whether he wants him actually expect a workload between broken escalators and Stuttgart 21, the Kefer meant to cope.
End of cooperation: go DB executive Volker Kefer has, Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube feels strengthened. Photo: dpa
Hardly. But the project “future path” is so complex that it would take its coordination its own manager. The announcement to increase the punctuality in long-distance traffic this year to 80 percent and to put the same 2020 some 55 billion euros in the modernization of infrastructure, the squaring of the circle is equal. Thousands large construction sites in the network and still run on time is about as realistic as if you could ban the congestion at highway construction sites by decree.
“You can punctuality not just decide,” said the outgoing railway Board Kefer. “We have 40 000 trains per day, which are all interconnected. A delay in Munich has some impact on a railway station in Hamburg. “In this case, 80 percent are not long the optimum. Kefer has raised the bar recently placed much higher. In the long run, the web must guarantee that the traveler in long-distance traffic reached in 95 percent of all cases with a delay of 15 minutes or less their goal – even for a connection. “We want to be the most reliable means of transport in Germany.”
Kefers departure should have improved the chance of Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube to an extension of his contract expiring end of 2017 significantly. Policy and Supervisory Board will it hardly risk to shave at all the upcoming web-sites equal to the complete guide.
In order to limit the rapidly growing debt to 19 billion and still be able to invest about 55 billion euros by 2020, mine planning a partial privatization of the two foreign subsidiaries of Arriva and Schenker. Finally, the web 20 billion of which must apply on their own. The partial sale, which is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2017, bringing 4.6 billion euros.
The two railway daughters, however, are very different attractive. DB Arriva has 2015 retracted with 700 trains and 16,000 buses that are traveling in 14 European countries a profit before interest and taxes of 270 million euros. Revenue totaled 4.8 billion. The company has been buying by the DB for 1.8 billion euros in 2010, a success story and was able to increase its revenues by one-third.
For DB Schenker, however it looks different. Winning the rail subsidiary, which operates trucks in Europe and worldwide air and sea, although was higher at EUR 395 million, but the company’s structure does not yet seem to be ripe for privatization. And as always in such transactions of state-owned policy will also as a strong voice. The have already announced on Wednesday the coalition groups of the CDU and SPD. The plans could be “medium far-reaching impact on the federal budget and to the development of rail transport in Germany,” it says in the letter to Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU).
In the renovation of the deficit-ridden rail freight operator must make cuts to his plans of the web board. Now to be concluded by a negotiated with the railway union ECG compromise rather than 215 less than 200 Güterverladestellen. About the number of jobs that will be lost by, is no longer spoken. Originally it should be 2100th
The manage everything with a rail head on call, appears scarcely conceivable. Especially as his potential successor, former Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla (57), who came early 2015 to train and work as a board for economics, law and regulation, holds very covered in the current crisis. Thanks to the division of responsibilities on the Board he has thus, too little to do. “Pofalla is drawn despite massive criticism from the web and become much faster and relatively noiseless Board. This is a professional who knows exactly in which tension the web is, “says an insider. “And that he is not an engineer, he knows that.”
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