Type Private Key people Gruia Stoica, CEO Revenue €110 million (2009) Headquarters Bucharest, Romania Parent organization Grampet SA, Inc. | Industry Rail transport Products Railway freight cars Number of employees 2,000 (2009) Founded 2001 | |
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Subsidiaries Electroputere VFU, Bulgarian Railway Company A.D., FŽV "ŽELVOZ" D.O.O., Reloc Sa | ||
Gfr grup feroviar rom n class 43 electric pulling a freight train past b neasa station
Grup Feroviar Român, or simply GFR, is the largest private railway company in Romania and one of the largest in South Eastern Europe. Founded in 2001, the company owns freight operations in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Mozambique, and railcar production and maintenance operations in Romania, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine. In 2010 GFR operates a park of over 13,500 railroad cars and 285 diesel and electric locomotives.
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- Gfr grup feroviar rom n class 43 electric pulling a freight train past b neasa station
- Railroad cars
- Electric locomotives
- Dieselelectric locomotives LDE
- Diesel hydraulic locomotives LDH
- Other
- References
In 2013, GFR bought a 51% stake in CFR Marfă, which was the freight division of Căile Ferate Române. This purchase cost €202 million.
Railroad cars
Electric locomotives
Diesel–electric locomotives (LDE)
Diesel-hydraulic locomotives (LDH)
Other
In July 2007 GFR offered a bid for Hungaryan company MÁV Cargo of around US$300 million and thus qualified for the final price offering for the company, from third place just behind Slovak company Speed Trans Consortium and a Cyprus based fund.
Control of Bulgarian Railway Company A.D. is shared by five Bulgarian companies and one Romanian company, Grup Feroviar Roman Bucharest.
The company also bought in 2006 the largest Serbian wagon construction and maintenance company, Zelvoz Smederevo.