Dunca Expeditii, which is currently employing about 700 people, as Dunca said, delivers freight abroad using its 500 trucks.
“Our customers operate in the automotive and fast moving consumer goods industries. Our main market is Europe.”
The customers include Automobile Dacia, Michelin, Linde Gaz, according to the corporate website.
The carrier renewed its fleet this year by buying 70 trucks.
“We hired more people for the trucks we bought, we did not fire any employees. I expect the profit to go up next year and not necessarily the revenue, but I don’t know if that will happen, it’s rather difficult to cope with all this tax burden.”
Romeo Dunca says he has managed to stay in business for almost twenty years, but go no support from the government.
“It’s worse than before. We are among the few battling the same non-performing management of the lawmakers, who can only think of how to add to our burden.”
The Romanian entrepreneur believes “the government treats us as enemies, as workhorses to flog and load with heavier burdens. We pay six million euros every year in all sorts of taxes and excise duties for diesel oil. Every day the government tries to find some new burden to saddle us with.”
Dunca says his company does not have debts to the state budget and pays its employees on time.
Dunca Expeditii posted some 150 million lei (EUR34 million) revenue last year and RON5.5 million net profit, according to Finance Ministry data.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)