“This has been a good year, we will deliver 17 streetcars in all for Bucharest by the end of the year. Next year we have to assemble and deliver 48 streetcars to Bucharest, 2 to Braila, 4 to Arad and we submitted a bid in the tender for 25 streetcars for Arad in December. By 2024 we are covered and the factory will be working at full capacity,” Gheorghe Sirbu, general manager of Astra Vagoane Calatori, told ZF.
Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the largest rolling stock manufacturers in Romania and an offshoot of the former Intreprinderea de Vagoane Arad, which made the first trains for the Bucharest metro, ended 2021 with RON280 million revenue and RON11.5 million profit, compared with RON192 million revenue and RON6.2 million profit in 2020, according to the Finance Ministry website.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)