Hartmut Mehdorn, chief executive of DB, has turned a chronic loss-making railway into a powerful international business which plans to float some 30% of its shares next year.

德国铁路股份公司的执行官Hartmut Mehdorn（哈特穆特媒栋恩，参5）将一个很长时间都亏损的铁路业变成了一个强有力的跨国企业，明年还计划将其30%的股份出售发行呢。

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The railway's chief executive Graham Oliver said he may have to make some of its 52 staff redundant.

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Six years ago the railway decided to take its old executive coaches out of mothballs and charter them.

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In an effort to salvage the mess, Hartmut Mehdorn, the hardnosed former boss of the German railway system with a reputation for turning around failing corporations, was named chief executive of the airport in early March.

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