National Railway Company

All CFR Calatori [Romania's National Railway Company - Passengers branch - editor's note] trains running between 6:00 am and 11:00 pm to and from Henri Coanda Airport will also stop at Mogosoaia Park station [a park in a rural town north-west of Bucharest - editor's note], starting July 15, the company informs on Friday.

The National Railway Company's passenger arm CFR Calatori will most likely end 2020 with losses of over 300 million lei, but this is still less than the 680 million lei budgeted at the beginning of the year, the company's CEO Dan Costescu declared on Wednesday.

Minister of Transport Lucian Bode on Friday stated in Timisoara that there has been no such official request from an Austrian official related to a train that was supposed to leave from the Timisoara Railway Station on May 2 to transport workforce from Romania to Austria, to take care of the elderly in this country.

National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA) prosecutors on Wednesday are conducting searches at the Ministry of Transportation headquarters in a case regarding damages said to be worth over 5 million euros, sources from the judiciary told AGERPRES.

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Romania's state-run rail freight carrier, CFR Marfa, has laid off around 2,296 employees in order to cut costs.

The process of shedding about a third of the company workforce started in July and will be completed by the end of December, when the final 200 workers are to be made redundant.

A sharp fall in the number of people traveling by train and lack of money to improve the lines are among the main reasons behind Romania’s decision to slash the number of railway workers and close almost half of the network.