Deutsche Bahn AG is the sixth and final Official Supplier of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™, Deutsche Bahn AG Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn and German OC President Franz Beckenbauer announced.
June 24, 2006 (Press Release) --
Deutsche Bahn AG is the sixth and final Official Supplier of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™, Deutsche Bahn AG Chairman Hartmut Mehdorn and German Organising Committee (OC) President Franz Beckenbauer announced in Berlin on Tuesday. "We are delighted and proud to welcome the German railways to our team. A global event such as this is hardly imaginable without the railway network as a provider of mobility and logistic services," Beckenbauer declared (OC Photo: Hartmut Mehdorn and Franz Beckenbauer at Berlin´s East station).
The OC President and the railways chief arrived at the capital's Ostbahnhof (East station) on board the original 1954 world champions' train. Fifty years ago, the train carried the players responsible for the "Miracle of Bern" on a triumphant tour of Germany. "The 2006 FIFA World Cup is a chance for Deutsche Bahn AG to showcase its wide-ranging areas of expertise," commented Mehdorn. "Our role as official mobility and logistic service provider to the 2006 FIFA World Cup allows us to draw on the full and extensive resources of all Deutsche Bahn AG's operating units. A huge number of officials and football fans from around the world will be relying on the local and long-distance railway network, both before and during the World Cup. Our stations will be meeting points for the fans."
Continued Hartmut Mehdorn: "The world's biggest and most significant sports event makes exceptionally heavy demands on any logistic system. Our subsidiary Schenker Stinnes has a huge reservoir of experience from a number of Olympic games, and recently handled the entire logistics operation for the German Football Association (DFB) at the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. Deutsche Bahn AG group intends to enhance its reputation as reliable, mobile, flexible and client focused on the road to 2006 and then at the tournament itself."
As an Official Supplier, Deutsche Bahn AG will support the media with a service never seen before at a major international sports event. Along with their World Cup accreditation, some 6,000 media representatives will receive six weeks' free individual travel on the entire local and long-distance railway network.
Source: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
The OC President and the railways chief arrived at the capital's Ostbahnhof (East station) on board the original 1954 world champions' train. Fifty years ago, the train carried the players responsible for the "Miracle of Bern" on a triumphant tour of Germany. "The 2006 FIFA World Cup is a chance for Deutsche Bahn AG to showcase its wide-ranging areas of expertise," commented Mehdorn. "Our role as official mobility and logistic service provider to the 2006 FIFA World Cup allows us to draw on the full and extensive resources of all Deutsche Bahn AG's operating units. A huge number of officials and football fans from around the world will be relying on the local and long-distance railway network, both before and during the World Cup. Our stations will be meeting points for the fans."
Continued Hartmut Mehdorn: "The world's biggest and most significant sports event makes exceptionally heavy demands on any logistic system. Our subsidiary Schenker Stinnes has a huge reservoir of experience from a number of Olympic games, and recently handled the entire logistics operation for the German Football Association (DFB) at the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. Deutsche Bahn AG group intends to enhance its reputation as reliable, mobile, flexible and client focused on the road to 2006 and then at the tournament itself."
As an Official Supplier, Deutsche Bahn AG will support the media with a service never seen before at a major international sports event. Along with their World Cup accreditation, some 6,000 media representatives will receive six weeks' free individual travel on the entire local and long-distance railway network.
Source: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
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