Made in Germany | Deutsche Bahn -- New Business Abroad

Deutsche Bahn's planned stock market flotation due to take place in late October was postponed because of the global financial crisis, but it has not been scrapped. News of lucrative executive payouts linked to the flotation have attracted considerable criticism. At the moment, DB managers are traveling the world on the hunt for investors and new business ventures.

Germany's rail company is aiming to expand internationally with the help of its subsidiary DB-International. It has a staff of 800 and is involved in big infrastructure projects: from the building of a rail line through Saudi Arabia to the training of high-speed-train drivers in Taiwan. Only Germany and France have drivers who are experienced enough to drive these trains. Now they're helping to train their Taiwanese counterparts. Michael Altenhenne has visited the Deutsche Bahn's subsidiary in Taiwan.

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[kensai7gr]

The Berlin Hauptbahnhof is amazing!

[Phoenix888888]

Nice Video!

[christianharris936]

@kensai7gr I know, I was there this summer on Vacation.

[Legilimentable]

@scotchprofessor you are terribly messing around with the difference between state and private. There is absolutely no formal need for a private corporation to consult the public - like if Google asks YOU where to build something. They can basically do whatever they want. Only the state is at fault for not informing about S21 financial support or for failing to push for more competition between railway companies or for draining the money out of the company and hindering investment

[amartinjoe]

5:26 OY! that's a Bombardier sign up above those trains.

[scotchprofessor]

@malbert34 Glad to hear you survived :) And congratulations on getting money from Deutsche Bahn. I'd say they owe me a four or five hundred.

[scotchprofessor]

@malbert34 And then there's eight years of lying to the public over Stuttgart 21...

The company has no moral compass. It bleeds money, and then through any means necessary robs the public with its overpriced, under-delivering service.

I blame the management, and its entire corporate culture.

Austrians or the Swiss? Maybe. The French? The Japanese? Deutsche Bank? Deutscher Fußball-Bund? Just anyone.

[malbert34]

@scotchprofessor Is it the trains and equipment provided by the German Government or Deutsche Bahn?

Is it wise then to switch operator? Maybe the Oesterreichische Bundesbahn or the Schweizerische Bundesbahnen :)

[malbert34]

@scotchprofessor Haha. It happens that I was actually in one of those 50 degree trains as you mentioned in 2010. There was a faulty air-conditioning on an ICE-express train heading to the airport in the middle of summer and therefore the train had to stop, which caused me to miss my flight! So I had to book a new flight the next morning, which cost me a booking fee of $600! Luckily though, I managed to get Deutsche Bahn to repay me most of that money. So what do you think is at fault here?

[scotchprofessor]

@envane I don't think they did... The planes would have been late and missed the targets.

[scotchprofessor]

@malbert34 All the above plus: people hopitalised because of faulty air conditioning, travelling on ICE trains with temperatures of 50 degrees in 2010... and again in 2011; chaos on the Berlin S-Bahn costing in excess of 700 million Euros; some S-Bahn lines offering only 1 in 5 of scheduled trains; computer systems unprepared for winter weather; regional and state criticism of under-investment for the coming years; ticket machines onboard trains not working...

[malbert34]

@scotchprofessor Well, it may not be the perfect company, but it sure beats many other transportation companies in other parts of the world.