Road transport:

Expressways: 1335, 55 km

Motorways: 1494,45 km

Distances between cities:
*Warsaw – Poznań: 310 km
*Warsaw – Krakow: 300 km
*Warsaw – Wrocław: 344 km
*Warsaw – Gdańsk: 284 km

Rail transport: PKP
Poland has the densest rail network in Europe (19 000 km) and it is also passing by significant international transit rail lines, covered by international agreements AGC and AGTC. Still, it is one of the most popular/common/core mode of transport in Poland.

For more information about Poland railway connections, please click here.

Air transport:

There are 13 airports in the main polish cities:

*Warszawa: Okęcie
*Warszawa: Modlin
*Kraków: Balice
*Lublin: Świdnik
*Rzeszów: Jasionka
*Wrocław: Starachowice
*Łódź: Lublinek
*Zielona Góra: Babimost
*Szczecin: Goleniów
*Gdańsk: Rębiechowo
*Bydgoszcz: Szwederowo
*Katowice: Pyrzowice
*Poznań: Ławica

Excerpt from European Commission’s “Country Report Poland 2015“:

Poland weathered the economic crisis and its aftermath very well. Real GDP has increased cumulatively by 19% since 2008, which is unparalleled in the EU. In 2014, economic activity recovered from a temporary slowdown in the two previous years, as domestic demand picked up again, replacing external trade as the main growth driver. Private consumption is expected to remain strong in the near term, supported by solid employment and real wage growth. The ongoing recovery of credit growth, coupled with declining financing costs and increasing profit margins, is expected to provide additional support for private investment, which however, remains to be hindered by deficiencies in business environment. Public investment is also projected to gather steam in 2015 with the rollout of new EU-financed projects. In 2014, the unemployment rate fell substantially, while the employment rate improved on the back of strong employment growth and weak demographics. Like in the rest of Europe, inflationary pressures subsided. In 2014 inflation receded and is set to pick up modestly in 2015.

This Country Report assesses Poland’s economy against the background of the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey which recommends three main pillars for the EU’s economic and social policy in 2015: investment, structural reforms, and fiscal responsibility. In line with the Investment Plan for Europe, it also explores ways to maximise the impact of public resources and unlock private investment. (…)

GDP Growth is expected to be robust in the near term. Private consumption is expected to remain strong, supported by solid real wage and employment growth. The ongoing recovery of credit growth coupled with declining financing costs is expected to provide additional support to private investment expenditure. Profit margins in the corporate sector are set to increase as prices of commodities and imported intermediate goods fall faster than prices of final goods. This increase in margins is expected to support corporate investment spending and, possibly, wage growth. In addition, public investment is projected to gather steam in 2015 with the rollout of new EU financed projects. (…)

After several years of moderate increases, unemployment fell substantially from 10.3% in 2013 to 9.1% in 2014. The improvement resulted from strong employment growth on the back of a robust rise of private investment. The situation of the young in the labour market is, however, precarious. The youth unemployment rate and the share of fixed-term contracts among the young are very high. The low overall participation rate remains a major challenge, despite continuous progress in recent years. The reform of the general early retirement scheme in 2009 and gradual increase in the retirement age are stimulating growth of activity rates, though from a low level. In particular, participation of young people, older workers and women remains low. The share of population exposed to the risk of poverty or social exclusion is still above the EU average, but has dropped considerably from 30.5% in 2008 to 25.8% in 2013. (…)

To see the full European Commission’s report, please click here.