Mürz Valley Transport Company
| Mürzaler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft mbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1943 |
| Seat | Kapfenberg , Austria |
| management | Gerhard German |
| Number of employees | 150 (2008) |
| sales | 7.4 million EUR (2006) |
| Branch | Transport and traffic |
| Website | MVG Kapfenberg |
The Mürzaler Verkehrs-GmbH (MVG) based in Kapfenberg is one of the largest transport companies in Styria . MVG is the most important bus operator in the area of Mariazell , Kapfenberg, Bruck an der Mur and Leoben . Around 200,000 people live in their catchment area.
history
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MVG was founded on April 23, 1943 with financial support from Böhler . From October 20, 1944 to February 15, 2002, it operated the Kapfenberg trolleybus , and has been a pure bus company ever since.
In 2002 the MVG acquired the Obersteirische Kraftwagen-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (OKVG) and in 2005 the Postbus routes that ran around Mariazell were taken over by the ÖBB-Postbus GmbH and now run as MVG-Regional-Busbetrieb GmbH. The newest subsidiary of MVG is the company MVG Spanner Reisen GmbH, which was founded on January 1st, 2007.
On December 14, 2015, MVG took over lines 185 and 186 in the municipality of Sankt Barbara in Mürz Valley from the Graz bus company Watzke GmbH & Co KG.
structure
MVG has three business areas:
- Local transport
- Travel agency
- Group trips (own coach fleet)
literature
- Hans Lehnhart: The history of the trolleybus and bus traffic: from 1943. Mürzaler Verkehrsges. mbH, Kapfenberg 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.k-card.at/Grafik/mobil/kapfenbergmobil.htm#001 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/regionen/steiermark/muerztal/479261/index.do
