Without money, public transport is in danger!
CFR Călaturi claims subcompensation and diminution of the forecast revenues for 2025 that endanger public passenger transport.
« The situation presented in the management of CFR Călatori to the authorities in the field represents an x-ray of the existing financial situation at this time, presenting, at the same time, the real challenges that the company faces, » a post on the railway company website shows.
CFR Călatori also intends, by presenting this situation, to co -opt all the authorities with implications in preventing the accentuation of financial imbalances on the background of subcompensation of the public service.
‘Thus, granting a compensation for the public service below the level of 2024 represents more than a challenge and could ultimately lead to the appearance of a blockage with undesirable effects on the railway system in its entirety, especially since some legislative changes are accentuated by these imbalances, changes that overlap over the decrease of the revenue for the year 2025 Railway (ARF) of the 12 frames related to the first public services contract auctioned and awarded by CFR Călaturi, the delays in supply being significant ‘, the company statement is written.
CFR Călaturi argues that the legislative changes in the area of transport facilities granted in higher education have led to the reduction of the income obtained from the travel facilities granted to this social category.
In conclusion, CFR Călatori shows, it is imperative that the value of the total annual compensation as well as the unitary compensation related to the public service in 2025 SA has no values below the level of 2024.
‘We are convinced that the ways of overcoming this situation will be found in the shortest time so that the public service knows a visible improvement and by no means a worsening, especially since in the commercial exploitation are already the first modernized/purchased rolling stock units within the National Plan, and
The government approved, on May 22, by decision, the budget of revenues and expenses for the year 2025 of the National Railway Transport Company ‘CFR Călaturi’ – SA, under the authority of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.
In the 2025 revenue and expenses budget of CFR Călaturi, investments of over 790 million lei are provided, increasing by about 52% compared to the preliminary ones at the end of 2024. ‘The company estimates total revenues of over 3.7 billion lei and total expenses worth over 3.6 billion lei, and the result of the year, and the year.
