The Company, which already transports selected vehicles of its 911, Boxster/Cayman and Cayenne model series for key overseas markets by rail, is now also moving component deliveries to its Finnish production partner Valmet Automotive from road to rail. On June 26th, 2006 the first train has been loaded at the container terminal in Kornwestheim with the newly developed mega trailers before setting out for Rostock. The trailers mainly contain engines, which will be built into Porsche's Boxster and Cayman models at Valmet Automotive.

Integration of BHW and branches continuing successfully
Share price more than doubled
Guidance confirmed
Deutsche Postbank AG is making good progress with the integration of its new business units BHW and Branches. This was announced by the Chairman of the Board of Management, Prof. Wulf von Schimmelmann, at the second Annual General Meeting of Postbank on May 11 in Cologne. To the beginning of the year, Postbank acquired not only BHW, the second biggest home loan and savings association in Germany, but also the 850 most attractive branches of Deutsche Post. "These transactions changed Postbank overnight," underlined von Schimmelmann. "The number of people working as employees or mobile sales more than tripled. We set the course for further growth at the right time."

Ministers from Germany, Austria, Slovakia and France have signed a statement of intent committing to complete the Paris-Strasbourg-Stuttgart-Vienna-Bratislava high-speed rail link as soon as possible. Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the Commission with special responsibility for transport, welcomed the progress and expressed the hope that "the cooperation between the four countries crossed by this rail link will continue along the same course to achieve the rapid completion of this priority project".