Railway construction market in Poland gaining momentum - January 2012

The condition of rail tracks in Poland is deplorable due to two decades of neglect of investment. Thanks to the generous funds provided by the European Union the Polish railway sector has embarked on a difficult path towards restoring its infrastructure, which creates opportunities for growth in new segments of civil engineering construction.

As a result of intensified implementation of projects contracted in the previous years, the value of the railway construction market grew by more than one-fifth to around PLN 3.1bn (€750m) in 2011, according our report entitled “Railway construction sector in Poland 2012 – Development forecasts for 2012-2014”. Though this amount is the highest on record for the railway construction industry, it will be surpassed in the 2012-2013 period.