Grup Feroviar Român

Grup Feroviar Român
Company typePrivate
IndustryRail transport
Founded2001
HeadquartersBucharest
Key people
Gruia Stoica, CEO
ProductsRailway freight cars
Revenue €110 million (2009)
Number of employees
2,000 (2009)
Websitehttp://www.gfr.ro/

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, Greece, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Mozambique, and railcar production and maintenance operations in Romania, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine. In 2010 GFR operated a park of over 13,500 railroad cars and 285 diesel and electric locomotives.

In 2013, GFR bought a 51% stake in CFR Marfă, which was the freight division of Căile Ferate Române. This purchase cost €202 million.

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