Veolia Transport
The Veolia Transport is the former transport division of the French group Veolia Environnement , which in various countries as an operator of public transport worked and since 2011, after merger with Transdev , first under the name Veolia Transdev , since even repeated name change in March 2013 only under Transdev is active.
Activities and background on Veolia Transport
The Compagnie générale d'entreprises automobiles (CGEA), founded in 1911, and the Compagnie générale française des transports et entreprises (CGFTE), founded in 1953, were subsidiaries of the Compagnie générale des eaux (CGE) from 1980 . The CGFTE operated, among other things, local public transport in the Bordeaux , Rouen and Nancy area . On January 1, 1997, CGEA and CGFTE were merged to form CGEA Transport . The CGE group was renamed Vivendi in 1998 . Their water, energy, waste and transport divisions were merged to Vivendi Environnement in 1999 , with the transport business operating as Connex . Vivendi Environnement was renamed Veolia in 2003 . The transport division was still called Connex until 2005, when it was renamed Veolia Transport to make it clearer that it belonged to the parent company. The previously state-owned ferry company Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM) was privatized in 2006 and taken over by Veolia Transport.
Even before the merger with Transdev, Veolia Transport was the market leader in land-based private passenger transport in Europe. 80,756 employees were active in 27 countries worldwide. As a transport company, Veolia recently carried over 24,000 vehicles on 236 rail and bus networks over 2.5 billion passengers per year. Veolia's worldwide turnover in the transport division in 2010 was EUR 5.8 billion with an EBIT of EUR 146 million.
The former freight transport division of Veolia Transport, Veolia Cargo, was sold at the end of 2009 to SNCF (for the international activities of Veolia Cargo) and Eurotunnel (for the French activities). With 188 million euros and 1,200 employees, the company was the largest private company involved in European rail freight transport. In France, Veolia Cargo was the first private railway company to compete with the state-owned SNCF . The first trains ran for a glass factory in July 2006 and had to be protected by the police from angry unionists. In Germany, the former freight transport division of Veolia Transport now operates under the name Captrain Deutschland .
Veolia Transport and Transdev merge
At the end of 2009 the merger of Veolia Transport with the French competitor Transdev to Veolia Transdev was announced. Veolia Environnement and the main shareholder of Transdev, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC), initially each hold 50% of the merged group ; the group was originally intended to be listed on the stock exchange or sold at a later date. The merger of the two companies was finally completed in March 2011. In October 2012, a capital increase was announced through which Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations would increase their stake to 60% and thus dilute Veolia's stake to 40%; consequently Veolia Transdev was renamed Transdev in March 2013.
subsidiary company
In 1997, what was then CGEA Transport acquired a 60% share in the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DEGV). At the time, it had just won the tender for the Bavarian Oberlandbahn network as part of the market opening and regionalization of local rail passenger transport in Germany . On January 1, 2000, CGEA (which was renamed Connex in the same year) increased its stake to 100%. As a result, the German subsidiary changed its name to Connex Verkehr GmbH . From this, Veolia Verkehr GmbH emerged in May 2006 , which in turn - as a result of the Veolia-Transdev merger - has been called Transdev GmbH since 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release on the sale of Veolia Cargo. December 1, 2009, accessed April 30, 2010 .
- ↑ Veolia Cargo: un acteur incontournable. (No longer available online.) September 4, 2009, archived from the original on July 20, 2014 ; Retrieved September 5, 2009 (French). 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.
- ↑ Press release from Veolia on the intended merger with Transdev. December 12, 2010, accessed April 30, 2010 .
- ↑ veoliatransdev.com : Naissance de Veolia Transdev. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 16, 2011 ; Retrieved April 12, 2011 . 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.
