This ‘profit”, however, was because of an increase in the subsidy received from the government, and, to prevent the company from being in the red again, a decision was made to cancel 244 of the 1,240 trains that ran daily.
The number of CFR Calatori employees remained at just over 10,500 last year, company officials said.
Total railroad passenger traffic last year amounted to 70.8 million passengers, down from 74 million passengers the previous year, while road traffic was more than four times higher, according to the latest data from the National Statistics Institute.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)