George Buruiana, general manager of Servtrans Invest: Operators should not pay more for a service that only engenders losses

A recent law project on the social subsidy of the railroads has reported on the low financial support of the rail transport. George Buruiana stated on the supposed railroad subsidy and on some more other problems of the rail transport.

RBT: National railway administration’s representatives think that infrastructure access tax - known as TUI for rail operators - should be increased on track sectors under rehabilitation, because these are ”overcrowded routes“?

George Buruiana: We do not agree with this attitude. The railroad corridors currently in rehabilitation works are not ”overcrowded“ because of us. Operators should not pay more for a service that only engenders losses. There are customers who have turned their freight flows towards road transport after having wasted a long time on these routes and one should not forget that the merchandise gone from rail transport to road transport would hardly or even never return.