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Article: Four units proposed for SRT.
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- Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2005
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Byline: Wichit Chantanusornsiri
May 9--The Finance Ministry has finalised a restructuring plan for the State Railway of Thailand that will split the state enterprise into four separate business units and clear 44 billion baht in accumulated debt.
The SRT, one of the country's most loss-ridden state enterprises, ran a net loss of 6.5 billion baht in 2004, up from losses of 5.6 billion the previous year.
Losses are the result of high rail maintenance and investment costs, limited flexibility to raise passenger fares, high pension expenses for its 12,000-plus staff, high interest expenses on existing debt and foreign exchange losses.
The ...