07.30.2024

The National Railway Supervision Council (NRSC), part of Romania's Competition Council, has fined Grup Feroviar Roman (GFR) a total of RON3.49 million for failing to comply with the measures imposed more

04.22.2024

Romania at the end of last year had 997 km of highway, 48 more than in 2022, which account for 5.6% of the national road network, National Statistics Institute data show. more

03.06.2024

Construction company Aktor, a member of the Intrakat Group, has officially started drilling works at the first tunnel (Ormeniş) on the Apaţa-Caţa section of the Brasov – Sighisoara railway. more

02.07.2024

The Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved EUR3.2 billion of new financing to support clean energy, transport, corporate research and development, and business more

04.21.2023

Romania had 949 kilometers of highway at the end of last year, 18 more than in 2021, which account for 1% of the total public road network and 5.4% of the national road network, National Statistics more

06.11.2019

Romania's government on Tuesday signed a contract for the design an execution of a railway line connecting Bucharest's main train station to the Henri Coanda International Airport. more

09.07.2018

Romania's transport ministry estimates it would cost EUR6.12 billion over a ten-year period to renew the country's railroad infrastructure consisting of 8,245 km of rail, according to a bill put up more

02.16.2018

The design an execution of a railway line connecting Bucharest's main train station to the Henri Coanda International Airport is scheduled for 2019-2020, state-owned railway company CFR SA said more

09.06.2017

Romania's state-owned railway company CFR SA assigned RON500 million in the first half of this year for infrastructure maintenance and repairs, the company said in a statement Wednesday. more

08.31.2017

Deutsche Bahn (DB) Cargo Romania, the rail freight transportation unit of Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, posted 192 million lei (EUR43 million) revenue last year, up about 8% on 2015, according to Finance more

08.24.2017

Over EUR201 million from the EU's cohesion fund will be invested in completing railway upgrade works between Sighisoara and Coslariu, central Romania, the European Commission said in a press release more

09.08.2016

Romania's state-owned railway operator CFR SA has scheduled this year 400 projects for the modernization of railway infrastructure, totaling RON22 billion (EUR4.7 billion). more

07.22.2016

The European Commission decided to refer Romania, Greece and Luxembourg to the Court of Justice of the EU for failing to transpose into national law Directive 2012/34/EU establishing a single European more

04.02.2015

CFR SA, Romania’s state-owned railway company, has budgeted investment expenses worth 3.8 billion lei for 2015, more than double the 2014 level, according to Transport Ministry data. In 2014, the more

10.23.2014

CFR SA leased out just 115.7 kilometers of railway, out of a planned 1,016 km, in an auction on the Romanian Commodities Exchange (BRM). more

10.02.2014

Romanian state-owned railway company CFR signed a contract of RON617.8 million (EUR140 million), including VAT, for works on the Sighisoara - Coslariu - Simeria railway section, to be carried out by more

07.02.2014

The association Arcada Company - Metabet - Compania Constructii Feroviare has won an auction held by state-owned railway operator CFR for the rehabilitation of railway bridges over the Danube for more

02.25.2014

Romania’s state-owned railway company CFR seeks to upgrade 80 kilometers of railway in Arad county, western Romania, for an estimated EUR1 billion. more

12.18.2013

The year 2013 saw the termination of a contract considered disadvantageous for Romania (the construction of the Transylvania Highway by the US-based Bechtel), as well as the failure to privatize rail more

11.16.2013

The Bucharest North railway station might be modernized and turned into a transit point in a project worth over 1.5 billion lei (EUR0.33 billion), which should be carried out in partnership with a more

09.30.2013

The modernization of railway sections in northern and southern Romania, which belong to the Pan-European transport corridor IV, requires investments worth a total of EUR7 billion, Jean Nicolaos, more

09.30.2013

Romania’s state-owned railway company CFR has major delays in its railway rehabilitation program, as 8,000 km out of a network of 10,700 km require capital repairs and the company barely repairs 10 more

07.24.2013

Austrian company Alpine Bau will no longer build 16 km of highway, 50 km of railway and an office building in Romania, as it filed for bankruptcy in Austria. more

04.09.2013

Almost half the Romanian railway network needs capital repair works, but existing lines have received only EUR18 million from the state budget for such works. The bulk of the overall public money more

01.31.2013

The European Commission on Thursday approved financing of EUR751 million to Romania for the upgrade of a railway section that will cost EUR884 million. more