The measures presented above will be applied next year, according to the document, which was obtained by MEDIAFAX.
By the end of 2012, the Government will cut 85 other positions at Electrificare CFR and 28 positions at the railway intervention company (Interventii Feroviare S.A.). The remaining personnel of the latter company will have to take four days of unpaid leave.
Interventii Feroviare’s average number of employees reached 304 in 2010. This spring, the company was included on the list of companies monitored by the IMF. Electrificare CFR has about 3,000 employees.
The total number of railway lines administered by CFR SA will be substantially reduced in the upcoming years to maximum 15,500 kilometers, which will entail further layoffs, namely 2,000 by the end of April 2012. Personnel managing structural funds will not be reduced, reads teh document.
The Government will continue auctions to lease 1,600 kilometers of extended railway, bringing the total number of line kilometers under private management to 4,000 kilometers. The railway lines for which tenders failed will be closed by the end of April.
According to the most recent data, Romania’s railroad network is 20,210 km long, including 17,691 km in public management and 2,519 km in private management.
The Government decided in July to lease 1,000 km of public railroad and close another 1,000 km, in an effort to save 109 million lei (EUR25 million) from the railway company budgets
Under the agreement, the Government will develop a plan by the end of January to increase revenues from renting out commercial space, also through public-private partnerships. (EUR1=RON4.3429)