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se are former sand minę tracks, built by the siatę in the 1950s and 60s to enable the operation ot coal mines. Some ot these lines are electritied at 3 kV dc system. The length ot PKP PLK's network diminished over the last two years by 1,000 route-km, because the traffic on these lines was very unprotitable.

Ali the railways undertakings in Poland carried 271.1 million tonnes of treight and 257.4 million passengers in 2005. Compa-red with 275.5 million tonnes ot treight in 2004, this is 4,4 million tonnes ot goods less (1.6%). Of the 271.1 millions tonnes of freight in 2005,149.7 million were carried by PKP Group ope-rators and the remaining 121.4 million tonnes were carried by private operators. So PKP Group transported 55.2% of all freight. while private operators did 44.8 % in 2005. These figures tor

2004    were: PKP Group - 59.3 % and private 40.7 %. As we can see, PKP's share of the traffic is diminishing, while private operators increase.

The freight branch of PKP Group consists of PKP Cargo and PKP LHS. PKP LHS is a 400-km-long broad gauge railway stret-ched between the Polish - Ukrainian border at Hrubieszów/lzow and Sławków iron ore terminal near Katowice, Silesia. Of this the 149.7 million tonnes of freight, 144.6 million tonnes were carried by PKP Cargo SA and 5.1 million tonnes by PKP LHS (Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa). Both these operators - PKP Cargo and PKP LHS - declined in 2005, compared to 2004, when they carried 156.2 and 7.3 million tonnes, respectively (total: 163.5 m tonnes). While total railway freight traffic in Poland in 2004 achieved 275.5 million tonnes, the open access operators carried 112 million tonnes. Also, PKP Cargo carried 11.9 million tonnes of treight less in 2005 than in 2004, while PKP LHS - 2.2 million tonnes less than in 2004.

Open access operators grow

There are about 20 open access freight operators in Poland. The most powerful of them are PTKiGK (Przedsiębiorstwo Transportu Kolejowego i Gospodarki Kamieniem - Raił Transport & Stone Management) S.A. Rybnik and PTKiGK (Przedsiębiorstwo Transportu Kolejowego i Gospodarki Kamieniem) SA Zabrze, both from Southern Silesia. They carried 51.5 and 34.9 million tonnes of freight, respectively, in 2005. They deal mainly with transporting coal from coal mines to the neighbouring power stations, and sand from the sand mines to the coal mines, but also drive out on PKP PLK tracks and carry coal and other products throughout Poland or even abroad. They also carry ashes and cinders out of the power stations. Other major private operators in Poland in

2005    were:

■    PCC Raił Szczakowa (Petro Carbo Chem) S.A., Jaworzno near

Katowice (carriage of coal and gas)    9.4m tonnes

■    CTL Raił (ChemTrans Logistic), Warszawa Sp. z o.o. (carriage

ot fuel oil, sand and coal)    9.1 m tonnes

■    KP Kotlarnia S.A., Kotlarnia near Gliwice (Kolej Piaskowa)

(carriage of sand and coal)    3.8m tonnes

■    Pol-Miedź-Trans Sp. z o.o., Lubin, near Wrocław (carriage of

copper ore and copper)    3.6m tonnes

■    NZTK (Nadwiślański Zakład Transportu Kolejowego) Sp. z o.o., Bieruń near Katowice (coal, aggregate) 2,2m tonnes

■    Lotos Kolej Sp. z o.o., Gdańsk (carriage of fuel oil)

1.4m tonnes

■    KP Kuźnica Warężyńska SA (Kolej Piaskowa), Dąbrowa Górnicza near Katowice (transport of sand)    1.4m tonnes

press Warszawa-to- Rzeszów/Nowy Sącz train; the lirsl loco is in ils new Hvery, while ihe seconil is in oić

■    Transoda Sp z o.o., Inowrocław (transport of limestone)

1 .Om tonnes

■    PKN Orlen S.A., Warszawa (transport of fuel oil) 1,0m tonnes Almost all private operators increased their business in 2005

compared with 2004. The most spectacular increases were tho-se of:

■    Lotos Kolej - from 0.7 m tonnes to 1.4 m tonnes - 100% growth

■    NZTK - from 1.3 m tonnes to 2.2 m tonnes - 69% growth

■    PTKiGK Zabrze - from 27.8 m tonnes to 34.9 m tonnes - 25% growth

PCC Raił Szczakowa is a newly established joint venture company with the German concern Petro Carbo Chem Rohstoff GmbH from Duisburg, which deals with Petroleum products.