Business trip adventure

• Company: Plasser & Theurer
• Founded: 1953
• Location: Austria; Main factory in Linz, head office in Vienna
• Employees: around 5,000 employees in Austria and at 19 partner companies throughout the world
• Range of products: machines and systems for laying and installing, renewing, and maintaining tracks and overhead contact lines
• Services offered: service, repair, and supply of spare parts worldwide
• Operational purpose: rewiring Unimat 08-475/4S for the Turkish company Yapiray in Ethiopia, retrofit and modification of an 09-32 CSM in Tanzania as well as further small jobs for Yapiray
• Period: summer 2021 in Ethiopia; 11.09.2021 - winter 2021 in Tanzania
• Service technicians responsible: Harun (43) and Thomas (39)

Business trips never get boring. When on an international assignment, you not only get to know many new colleagues, workplaces, and interesting companies, but you may also find yourself on a different continent one day.
After the first COVID year of 2020, the world of work started to get back to normal gradually, and business trips became possible again. For the experienced Plasser & Theurer service technicians Harun and Thomas, this meant a first assignment after a long period of no travel which took them both to Africa. They would like to share their experiences from this in our RAILCLUB.