Sakartwelos Rkinigsa
Sakartwelos Rkinigsa ( Georgian საქართველოს რკინიგზა; Georgian Railway ) is the national Georgian railway company.
history
The company emerged from the Soviet railway system in 1992 , when it also dissolved as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union .
Until 2004, the railroad in Georgia suffered from corruption . General Akaki Tschchaidse was arrested in 2004 and spent several months in custody before settling for three million dollars ransomed. The railway company was restructured in the same year, and the general manager was placed under a supervisory board. From June 2004 to October 2005, David Onoprishvili, a former Treasury Secretary and professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville , served as general manager. He reformed the company's management and commissioned the US management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton , which also works for Deutsche Bahn , with an organizational report .
To push ahead with modernization, 2,445 employees were laid off and wages were raised by 17% at the same time. The tariffs for freight transport have been reduced, air-conditioned cars and express lines that have been modernized for travel have been put into operation. In 2006 a program for the renovation and construction of new stations was launched.
In the Soviet tradition, the railway was a state railway . In 2007 the Georgian government decided to privatize the company . Although the railway should remain in state ownership, the operating rights should be given into private hands. Negotiations with the British company Parkfield Investment Ltd. however, this failed in October 2007.
organization
The company is state-owned and has the legal form of a GmbH under Georgian law . She works so formally independently.
business
The company operates a mainly Russian broad-gauge railway network as well as a narrow-gauge railway on the Borschomi – Bakuriani line ( gauge 900 mm, 37 km in length, electrified ).
The company has signed contracts with the Azerbaijan and Armenia Railways for transit and traffic exchanges. Since May 2006, she has been involved in the founding of a Black Sea Railway Corporation , which is to restore the rail connections between the countries of the South Caucasus and Russia along the Black Sea coast.
literature
- Markus Rabanser: Georgia . In: Fern-Express 1/2016, pp. 20–27.
Web links
- Homepage of the Georgian Railway (en, ge, ru).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rabanser, p. 25.