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08:31:33 on Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Lüko Willms
remarked:
ICRR sounds just like GNER running a franchise on the ECML.

not to me.

If not, what's the essential difference.

This is not a government contract with a private company, but a
contract between two private companies, where one charges the other to
do its work.

Yes, so the only difference is that in one case it's the Government
letting the contract, and in the other it's a multinational quasi-public
sector company that's letting the contract.
--
Roland Perry