The minister said this is to prevent financial corrections from the EU, since the contracts for the line’s modernization are financed using ISPA funds.
Boagiu added that she wants the state-owned railway companies to absorb EUR2.3 billion in EU funds by the end of the year, the entire amount allotted to Romania for railway infrastructure development in 2007-2013.
In June, the minister announced that Austrian company Porr would be fined EUR24 million for delays on the modernization of the Campina-Predeal section of the Brasov-Bucharest line. She also said at the time that a train trip from Bucharest to Predeal would take only two hours, once work on the Campina-Predeal section is completed in November, more than one year behind schedule.
The rehabilitation of the Bucharest-Constanta line began in 2006 and has not been completed, despite the initial deadline being set for 2009.