RAIL TRANSPORT - Ludovic Orban wants to privatise CFR Marfa

The newly appointed transports minister, Ludovic Orban, announced that the following issues are among his top priorities as the head of this ministry: an increase of economic efficiency and quality of the railway companies, attracting funds for the railway infrastructure, accelerating of the privatization process of CFR Marfã and reforming the passenger operations by forming a separate long-distance company and eight regional companies organized on the structure of CFR regional divisions. The long-distance company is to be privatized whereas the other eight companies are to operate in collaboration with and by cofinancing from the local authorities.