Ten passenger railcars of the Austrian state railway company, ÖBB, have entered service to assist the MÁV during the summer season, Minister of Transport and Investments Dávid Vitézy announced to the on his Facebook page sunday morning Air-conditioned cars suitable for transporting bicycles will run on Kék Hullám InterCity in Balaton and Békés InterCity.
According to the minister, 10 cars had to be borrowed for the summer season because a few weeks ago it became clear that “due to the bankruptcy of Dunakeszi Járműjavító, the MÁV vehicle situation inherited from János Lázár is worse than ever. Already a quarter of the MÁV trains cannot run because they are awaiting repairs or major inspections, so the railway company would have started the summer season with even fewer cars than last year”. In a few weeks, however, we managed to reach an agreement with the Austrian ÖBB. “This help is essential this season while MÁV deals with the accumulated maintenance and vehicle maintenance problems,” the minister wrote.
“I see the propagandists of Fidesz, the worn-out, out-of-date faces of Megafon already asking me to account for why there are not enough air-conditioned cars in the InterCitys. While there are dozens of IC cars in the bankrupt Dunakeszi Vehicle Repair, which was privatized with the Russians by the former Minister of Defense Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, and then passed into the hands of the circles of Árpád Habony and Zsolt Hernádi become insolvent,” one Vitézy wrote in another postwhich he wrote about a weekend visit to the Dunakeszi Vehicle Repair Shop.
“Egyptian car production, which was started jointly with the Russians, has been at a standstill for a year, and due to the business accumulating enormous losses for the company, the repair and main inspection of MÁV cars has also been stopped for months. The Dunakeszi Járműjavító was put into liquidation at the end of last year due to the deals of the Russians and the NER circles that were hard to understand for years, from which the state finally rescued the new is now owned by MÁV. That’s why we have now visited the managers of the vehicle repair company with the managers of the vehicle repair company, we are conducting a weekend inspection – the goal is clear: we have to save and get the plant, which has been standing still for a year, with 780 employees, because the shutdown of the vehicle repair company is now also endangering the Hungarian railway service.” – writes the minister.
Almost half a year ago, Ganz-MaVag International (GMVI) Kft., a domestic company that was supposed to deliver a large Egyptian railway order, and Magyar Vagon Dunakeszi Járműgyártó, Javító és Karbantártó Kft. (the former Dunakeszi Járműjavító, or DJJ for short), where domestic assembly and repair took place, were liquidated. The government is already spending billions to save the Egyptian business, and then a few days before the election, the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM) headed by János Lázár, or more precisely the MÁV under it, paid HUF 8 billion to buy a newly founded company of Járműjavító. THE however, tens of billions more may have to be spent to save the vehicle repair shop.
