The National Railway
Freight Company, "CFR Marfa"- S.A. was founded on the 1st October 1998, upon the
reorganization through the splitting of the Romanian Railways National Company
and it has the status of a commercial company.
CFR Marfa is a company that develops its activities in the field of
services and its main scope is freight and other goods public railway transport,
both in domestic and international traffic. In this respect:
· It owns a private patrimony and obtains proceeds from its use.
CFR Marfa is managed by 11 members who constitute
the Board of Directors, of which one is a Ministry of Finance expert. Managers
are elected by the General Assembly of the shareholders for a period of four
years. The management of CFR Marfa is ensured by the General Manager who is also
the President of the Board of Directors. CFR Marfa can be privatized and, in
compliance with the law, the Romanian state may keep the majority of stocks.
CFR Marfa has approximately 21,000 employees in all its organizational
structures, it has a 927 engine fleet (electric, Diesel electric, and Diesel
hydraulic), a fleet of approximately 60,000 trucks structured on 23 different
series and it is provided with two ferryboats with a
displacement of 12,000 tdw each.
In order to perform its business activities, CFR Marfa has a short- term
strategy with a view to achieving the following main objectives:
1. Setting up of branches through the separation of certain specific activities such as:
CFR Marfa intends to attract private capital in a percentage of 49% for two of the above mentioned branches - namely lorry transportation of the forwarded goods loaded within companies of intermodal transportation – out of Ministry of Transports subsidies for small and medium size enterprises.
2.Setting up of territorial commercial centres, in order to decentralize the decision structures through the implementation of competent decision makers at local level, that will positively influence services and will result into a more efficient decision making process.
Romania was and still is privileged by its
geographical position and the direct access to the Black Sea and to the Danube.
The "Silk Way" which is facilitating transport connections among Europe,
Caucasus, Central Asia and the Middle East represents a profitable project for
us.
The crowded European harbors of the last period of time, as well as the
perspectives of the growth of commercial exchange between the European countries
and the countries of Asia impose more and more the rebuilding of the Southern
Routes of "The Silk Way". The achievement of the new continental bridge
Euro-Asia aims the connection of the Lianyun port and other ports of the Eastern
Coast of China on the railway route Longhai-Lauxin, The Pass of Alta, the
countries of the Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan), the
Caucasian countries of South-Eastern Europe and then with Western Europe up to
Rotterdam port (Holland).
This can be made by three routes:
·
The first: through Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - Iran - Turkey and
then Europe;
·
The second: through Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan - Turkmenistan - The Caspian Sea -
Azerbaijan - Georgia - The Black Sea - Romania (Bulgaria, Ukraine) and then to
the Western and Northern Europe;
· The third: through Kazakhstan to the North across the Russian Federation (Moscow) and then to the Western Europe.
Also, three of the pan-European corridors are
crossing our country:
Corridor IV Constantza - Bucharest - Arad - Budapest - Bratislava -
Prague - Dresden,
Corridor IX Constantza - Bucharest - Iasi - Chisinau - Kiew - Petersburg - Helsinki.
The Port of Constantza toghether with its extension Constantza Sud is the largest commercial port at the Black Sea. Ships with a maximum displacement of 200,000 tdw can anchor here. There are the following terminals:
· The RO-RO terminal allowing the operation of 30,000 roadtrains TIR/year;
· The ferry - boat terminal;
·
The terminal for trans containers allowing the operation of about 70,000 trans
containers of 20-40 feet/year. Soon in the same terminal swap bodies and
semi-trailers will be operated.
There will be put into operation the RO-LA terminal for the loading-unloading of
TIR road trains on and off specialized wagons (that are being built) to be
transported to the West and North Part of Europe on the CFR network.
(See Commercial)