The trains operated by Servtrans Invest, Regiotrans, Grup Transport Feroviar si Transferoviar Grup may not use the public railway infrastructure, as of 5 p.m. Tuesday. Freight trains travelling at the time were stopped, while passenger trains were allowed to proceed only to their destination.
CFR SA said, in a press release, that it made this decision after the operators repeatedly refused to pay the infrastructure access fee.
Servtrans invest, part of the International Railway Systems group owned by Cristian Burciu, owes CFR SA RON18.2 million.
Regiotrans owed RON7.7 million and Grup Transport Feroviar has debts of RON7.2 million.
Transferoviar Grup, owned by Calin Mitica, is the least in debt of the four companies.
(EUR1=RON4.1719)