BERLIN (AFX) – After the announced withdrawal of vice director Volker Kefer Orbit Supervisory looking solutions to the problems the project Stuttgart 21 and the lossy freight. The control committee met in Berlin on Wednesday morning. On the agenda are the latest cost and schedule for Stuttgart 21 and the desired restoration of the subsidiary DB Cargo.
Infrastructure Board Kefer announced surprisingly on Tuesday night, not wanting to extend his until September 2017 current contract. He was responding to allegations from the Supervisory Board, he had the guards informed too late about cost increases in Stuttgart 21st Kefer is responsible for the controversial construction of the deep station in Stuttgart with a connected tunnel section.
Whether the Supervisory Board shall be extended to run until the end of 2017 Treaty of Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube, is still open. The decision not to stand on Wednesday, as it was called from multiple sources in the environment of the Supervisory Board. The former chancellery minister and now a DB executive Ronald Pofalla are attributed to the top post ambitions.
For DB Cargo advised the overseer of a paper on which the tip of the subsidiary and the council had agreed on Tuesday. It will called for job cuts no figure, reported from supervisory circuits. The plans of the management had previously provided elimination of 2100 jobs in the sector.
Also the transmitter HR-Info reported on an agreement before the board meeting. An unnamed unionists is quoted as saying: “In long negotiations we have largely prevailed us Downsizing is now only by consensus..” The federal government, as the owner of the web must support the compromise yet.
DB Cargo posted a large loss last year. With a renovation concept the railway daughter wants to return to profitability by the end of 2018th The works council and the Railway and Transport union (EDC) had protested against a “shrinkage rate” and insisted on negotiations.
In the compromise text should be noted that are “less than 200 railways stations closed,” it said in the circles. These were considered to small loading stations, which would hardly used. The railway had previously planned 215 decommission of a total of 1500 stations.
Given by Kefers retreat said the vice-chairman of the board and ballast chairman Alexander Kirchner, it remains independent of “the question of why the board late on cost increases and construction delays has been informed. ” It must “be clarified whether the existing control mechanisms are sufficient and as may need to be readjusted.”
The critics of the railway project Stuttgart 21 values the withdrawal as “admission of failure” of the billion project. but the view of the open-road politician Matthias Gastel of personnel changes distracts from the problems of the rail. “The federal government must finally put on track the way for more passengers and goods.” Necessary are about lower track access charges and fees as well as the construction project in Stuttgart an award stop until the clarification of costs and funding.
The 60-year-old Kefer is since 2009 on the board. Two weeks ago it was announced that the targeted commissioning in Stuttgart is 2021. in danger. In addition, the financial buffer of EUR 500 million is almost depleted. So far, the determined by the Supervisory Framework is 6.5 billion euros.
The coalition factions of the CDU and SPD, meanwhile insist on an involvement of the Bundestag before decisions on the controversial partial privatization of foreign subsidiaries of the web. Against a decision of the Supervisory Board, should the budgetary and Transport Committee “to deal comprehensively with the plans of the DB Management Board,” it says in a letter to the competent Group Vice Arnold Vaatz (CDU), Sören Bartol (SPD), Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) and Carsten Schneider (SPD). The letter is before the German Press Agency.
Bahn CEO Grube wants minority interests of the global logistics subsidiary Schenker and Arriva daughter sell the bundles to carry persons abroad. For the state-owned company wants to fall a precise concept as a basis for decisions vorlegen./brd/sam/bf/DP/edh
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