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Veolia Transportation
Type of Company Subsidiary of Veolia Environnement(Euronext: VIE, NYSE: VE)
Founded
Headquarters Paris, France
Key people Henri Proglio (Chairman and CEO) of Veolia
Industry Transportation Services
Products Transportation as Veolia Transportation
Revenue €4.3 Billion EUR (2005)
Employees 72,302(2005)
Slogan ""
Website www.veoliatransportation.com

Veolia Transportation is a brand name of the international transport services division of the French-based multinational company Veolia Environnement. Veolia Transportation trades under the brand names of Veolia Transportation or Veolia Transport.

Veolia has diverse road and rail operations acoss the globe, employing 72,000 workers worldwide.

In 2005, the group reported a 4.3 billion euro turnover.

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[edit] Australia

A Veolia train in Melbourne, Australia.
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A Veolia train in Melbourne, Australia.

In Australia Connex has changed its name to the same as its French parent company's, Veolia in January 2006. Branding on buses and trains is being changed to reflect this position, with the exception of the Melbourne suburban rail system. Turnover for Australia is over $635 million Australian dollars.

[edit] Europe

[edit] United Kingdom

  • Bebb Travel
  • Dunn Line
  • Connex South Central (now South Central Trains)
  • Connex South Eastern (now South Eastern Trains - Connex lost its franchises in 2003, after the Strategic Rail Authority terminated its South Eastern franchise for alleged financial mismanagement. In 2005, the National Audit Office, a Parliament appointed official body, cleared the company of any financial wrong-doing.

Connex South Central and South Eastern were generally loathed by its passengers, who faced a deteriorating service quality, extensive delays and massive overcrowding. The company had started to improve, most particularly out-performing many of the other London rail operators, and its CEO was named Rail Person of the Year in 2002, when the SRA decided to remove the franchise.

It also owned Connex Bus which in 2004 was sold to the National Express Group and now trades as Travel London. Ironically this included routes and buses that were part of the original Travel London business which Connex had acquired through a small independent operator, Limebourne, who had bought the original Travel London business.

[edit] Other countries

  • In Belgium, Connex operates under contract to the government owned de Lijn.
A Veolia bus in Helsinki advertising Hesburger fast-food chain
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A Veolia bus in Helsinki advertising Hesburger fast-food chain
  • In the Czech Republic Veolia is the largest bus operator, after a 2002 take-over of the Slezsko regional network in Silesia. Veolia runs 12 urban transport networks and three travel agencies. In also runs an international train service between the Czech Republic and Germany
  • In Denmark Veolia runs half of the transport operations of the privatised Combus.
  • In Estonia Veolia operates a bus network in the city of Tartu.
  • In Finland Veolia owns Helsinki Metropolitan Area's bus company Veolia Finland, which was previously Linjebuss.
  • In France, Veolia is to buy 28% of the SNCM (Société Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée), a state-owned ferry company. The company is the third largest private sector operator of public transport and operates bus and tramway services in a number of towns across the country (Bordeaux, Nice...)
The Bayerische Oberlandbahn near Munich is operated by Veolia.
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The Bayerische Oberlandbahn near Munich is operated by Veolia.

[edit] Middle East

[edit] New Caledonia

[edit] New Zealand

  • In New Zealand, Connex Auckland changed its name to Veolia on 1 March 2006. It operates Auckland's MAXX commuter rail service in partnership with ARTA. the Auckland Regional Transport Authority

[edit] North America

Veolia arrived in the United States in 2001, with the acquisition of Yellow Transportation in Baltimore, Md.

IN 2006, Connex-ATC changed its name to Veolia Transportation, acquired ShuttlePort, and won several contracts, including Las Vegas (NV), MESA (Az), Orange County (Ca), Antelope Valley (Ca) and the light rail system of Sprinter (Oceanside, Ca.).

  • It now employs over 16,000 employees with 6,500 vehicles and a revenue of approx. $495 M. in 2005. in North America. Its executive team includes Olivier Brousse (chairman of Veolia Transportation North America, as well as overseeing Veolia Transportation's French operations), and Mark Joseph (CEO of VTNA). It is headquartered in Oak Brook, IL.

[edit] South America

  • In Colombia Veolia, in conjunction with three other operators, runs a 35-km right-of-way bus line called the Transmilenio system.

[edit] India

Veolia is part of a consortium which is led by Anil Ambani's Reliance Energy Limited. Hong Kong MTR is the other partner. They will build the first corridor of the Mumbai Metrorail on the 11.4 kms stretch between Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar on the east-west corridor. The project is expected to begin by end of 2006, to be completed by 2009.

[edit] Criticisms

A tramline being built by Connex/Veolia will run between West Jerusalem on the Israeli side of the Green Line to settlements in East Jerusalem on the other side of the line. The settlements, which have been built on annexed Palestinian land, are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention. If completed, the Israeli tramline will permanently link Jewish-only settlements such as Pisgat Ze’ev, French Hill, Neve Ya’akov and Gilo, to Israeli West Jerusalem, thereby strengthening Israel’s hold on occupied East Jerusalem.[2]

West Jerusalem to the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim would be connected via a corridor which would cut off Palestinian East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Professor Jeff Halper has written that it "effectively cuts the economic heart out of any Palestinian state, rendering it nothing more than a set of non-viable Indian reservations".[3]

Ariel Sharon has said of the project “Anything that can be done to strengthen Jerusalem, construct it, expand it and sustain it for eternity as the capital of the Jewish people and the united capital of the State of Israel, should be done.”[4]

Because of the controversy with the project Connex workers on the Luas light-rail system in Dublin, Ireland have refused a contract to train Israeli train drivers. [5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Veolia Environment Australia 2004 Sustainable Development report, http://www.connexaustralia.com.au/sustain/pdf/sd_report_2004.pdf, page 57
  2. ^ War on Want report. http://www.waronwant.org/download.php?id=443, pages 10, 11
  3. ^ Jeff Halper, ‘The End of a Viable Palestinian State’, ICAHD, 29 March 2005
  4. ^ ‘PM Sharon’s Statements at the Ceremony for the Signing of the Light Train Agreement’, Prime Minister’s Office, 17 July 2005
  5. ^ http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5573.shtml

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