The minister did not disclose the names of the three potential investors.
Companies interested in CFR Marfa have until Thursday to file papers for the prequalification phase of the auction.
The ministry has resumed privatization procedures after none of the companies which previously filed papers prequalified for the auction. Two companies and one consortium submitted papers, namely U.S. company OmniTRAX, Romanian private freight railway carrier Grup Feroviar Roman (GFR) and a consortium of Transferoviar Grup (TFG) and Donau-Finanz GmbH & Co KG Austria.
In mid-May, the Transport Ministry’s privatization committee rejected the three potential investors after analyzing their papers, which were incomplete.
The Transport Ministry will auction off 51% of CFR Marfa in June and the starting price is 798.05 million lei (EUR180 million).
The procedure includes three phases: prequalification, negotiation based on preliminary non-binding offers and sealed-bid auction.