Carpatica Feroviar, which will be in operation as of 2025 according to plans, represents a fresh start for railway goods transport in Romania, because a company with a debt over 4 billion lei, as CFR Marfa, cannot develop, said Ionut Cristian Savoiu, secretary of state in the Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure, on Thursday. “The new company starts with a full state capital. We had talks on two variants with the Commission. One with the participation of strategic investors or stock exchange listings, which means 25% of company capital. Obviously listing requires preparation which means about two years,” said the secretary of state. Carpatica Feroviar will have the same kind of business as CFR Marfa had, but it will not be able to take over the active stock automatically, but will be purchased through legal procedures. The setup and accreditation period of the new company is 6 months after the publication of the Government Decision in the Official Monitor. “Our optimistic scenario shows that in 2025 we might have Carpatica Feroviar functional after being set up in 2024,”he pointed out. After the setting up of Carpatica Feroviar, CFR Marfa must liquidate its patrimony, which has been blocked by ANAF, and must pay the debt it owns to CFR SA for the state aid. The secretary of state added that 3,300 employees from CFR Marfa would be taken over by Carpatica Feroviar. According to the Substatiation Note accompanying the draft Government Decision, the company will have to ensure strategic transports of the Romanian state, accounting for the risk of refusal from private transport companies to carry out certain railroad transports or even their impossibility of taking them over in crisis situations. The new company will carry out activities of strategic interest – taking into account Romania's international partnerships and the need to cover transports of goods in situations of crisis and commercial interest- as it is a company with state capital, se up from its own sources, which will transport goods, thus completing demands of the railway transport market.
Analysts of the Concorde Securities brokerage house, based in Budapest, reiterate their buy recommendation and maintain the target price of RON 84 (versus RON 66.4 current market price) for the shares of the telecommunications operator Digi Communications (BVB: DIGI). The potential return thus amounts to 26.5%. "Key performance indicators are largely in line with our […]
The Terveystalo Group, the largest private healthcare operator in Finland, is reportedly in talks to take over Romanian peer Regina Maria in a deal estimated at EUR 1.0-1.2 billion from the investment fund Mid Europa Partners, according to Ziarul Financiar. The exit process envisaged by Mid Europa Partners...
CEC Bank, the largest state-owned bank in Romania, announced on November 19 at the Bucharest Exchange (BVB) that it prepared a prospectus to update the existing medium-term bond program (MTN Programme), approved by the Luxembourg financial sector supervisor (CSSF), in the sense of increasing its planned size from the equivalent of EUR 600 million to […]
Grants in total amount of RON 350 million (EUR 70 million) were given to two Romanian entrepreneurs under the Investalim scheme aimed at the food industry for developing two sunflower refining plants in Agigea (Constanta County) and Tantareni (Gorj County) under two projects with a total value of RON 650 million. The investments come after […]
Fitch Ratings improved the rating of Romanian financial group Banca Transilvania (BVB: TLV) from BB+ to BBB-, with a stable outlook, bringing the bank's shares in the investment grade area. The Viability Rating (VR) has been upgraded to bbb- from bb+. One week earlier, Moody's confirmed its rating for TLV at the equivalent level (Baa3), furthermore […]
Romania will join the Schengen Area with its land borders starting January 1, 2025, according to Romanian prime minister and Social Democrat (PSD) leader Marcel Ciolacu, who was on a visit to Brussels on Monday, November 18. The Romanian PM said during an interview that the decision regarding Romania’s accession with land borders will be […]
