“We are in talks with operators in the Scandinavian Peninsula to sell them railroad and street cars,” the businessman said, who was on a business trip to three countries there (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) not long ago.
Astra Vagoane Calatori’s first quarter revenue was flat on the year-ago period, the businessman said. The company made railroad cars for Czech Republic and street cars for Cluj-Napoca, where it won the tender.
“We have sales teams as far as Indonesia and other countries where we can find contracts. We are waiting to see tenders for railroads in Romania, as well.”
Early this year, the industrialist signed a renewal of the contract to sell cars to the railroad operator in Czech Republic and is also in talks to sell railroad cars to Indonesia.
Last year, Blidar also started assembly of electric buses and trolleybuses in Arad, a new business unit that will help boost revenue, after revenue shrank three times in 2015. Blidar even said he had signed a deal with a major component manufacturer in France, whose name he did not reveal, to work together. The capacity will be one trolleybus and one electric bus every ten days. The 2016 financial results were not revealed.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)