Giugiaro
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Today I came to myself realizing, after watching the list of Japanese Railway Companies, that there's something strange that I can't find myself an answer to.
Imagine a setting were Portugal decides to Privatize it's Railway Company, CP - Comboios de Portugal EPE (something closer to being truth than fiction), and, besides there showing up private groups and consortiums, the Spanish State pulls itself a chance in the bidding.
In the end, Spain gets the bid, and decides to fuse CP to Renfe and operate the same way in both Portugal and Spain, in a same company with the same service structure and without funny franchisings. So...
- Has CP turned into a private company since its main shareholder, the Portuguese State, resigned its ownership?
- Or has CP kept being a nationalized company, but now under another state's ownership?
- Or did CP become something else? Neither a Nationalized company, nor Privatized? What's it called then?
Here's a second scenario:
In this case, it's not the Railway Company, but the Public Television Service (RTP - Radio e Televisão Portuguesa) is being privatised, and the BBC decides to appropriate of this communication service and rebrands it BBC Portugal.
- Has RTP now become a private company?
- Or is it still nationalised?
- Or neither?
I know that in the UK some railway franchises are taken by other public railway companies from European countries, like Abellio and Northern Rail. But since they are franchises, I think they count as being private. (Heck, even Renfe and CP tried to get a foot hold on the Greater Anglia franchise, that Nederlandse Spoorwegen later took... )
So, what's your say? Would either of the two cases be Private, National, or something else?
Imagine a setting were Portugal decides to Privatize it's Railway Company, CP - Comboios de Portugal EPE (something closer to being truth than fiction), and, besides there showing up private groups and consortiums, the Spanish State pulls itself a chance in the bidding.
In the end, Spain gets the bid, and decides to fuse CP to Renfe and operate the same way in both Portugal and Spain, in a same company with the same service structure and without funny franchisings. So...
- Has CP turned into a private company since its main shareholder, the Portuguese State, resigned its ownership?
- Or has CP kept being a nationalized company, but now under another state's ownership?
- Or did CP become something else? Neither a Nationalized company, nor Privatized? What's it called then?
Here's a second scenario:
In this case, it's not the Railway Company, but the Public Television Service (RTP - Radio e Televisão Portuguesa) is being privatised, and the BBC decides to appropriate of this communication service and rebrands it BBC Portugal.
- Has RTP now become a private company?
- Or is it still nationalised?
- Or neither?
I know that in the UK some railway franchises are taken by other public railway companies from European countries, like Abellio and Northern Rail. But since they are franchises, I think they count as being private. (Heck, even Renfe and CP tried to get a foot hold on the Greater Anglia franchise, that Nederlandse Spoorwegen later took... )
So, what's your say? Would either of the two cases be Private, National, or something else?
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