I was slightly confused because the Dutch national railway is also called NS.
Trains
Everything about trains and railroads
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
You are right... title updated for clarity.
Me too aha
title clarified, my apologies. It was copied from the article verbatim.
As much as the praising of Precision Scheduled Railroading is annoying to me and reads like a pacifier for money-hungry shareholders, the promise of putting safety back to the top of the priority list and putting more rail and transportation experience into management seems good.
They're full of shit. It's a short-term boost to stock price via slashed operational costs. They'll bail as soon as the momentum starts to derail. Improving safety doesn't start with reducing maintenance resources. Precision railroading is a scam that investors buy into because it sounds good on paper, but keeps proving to be a disaster when all the minor shortcomings stack up into a collapse of performance - every sick day, every repair delay will cause a larger ripple than before. Safety isn't lucrative in the short timeline of a pump and dump.
Safety is not a complicated issue, but this takeover is...
BLET (in February) initially opposed the takeover
BLET recently (At the end of April) changed positions and are now supporting Ancora's takeover.
So I don't really know who to side with on this issue tbh.
NS says they are going to do less PSR, but PSR is merely a buzzword and promises from current mamagement ring just as hollow as those from Ancora.