06.12.2025

CFR Calatori, a government-subsidized company and the largest railroad passenger transport operator in Romania, ended last year with RON3.4 billion revenue, up 24%, and posted net profit after more

05.23.2025

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a leading player on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, ended 2024 with RON425 million and RON57.8 million net profit, from RON631 million turnover and more

12.18.2023

Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will end this year with more than RON500 million (EUR100 million) revenue, more than more

10.18.2023

Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, has won a contract worth RON79 million (some EUR16 million), VAT not included, with more

10.25.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by entrepreneur Valer Blidar, now has 93 jobs available at its Arad plant. more

09.19.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will deliver the seventh tram for Bucharest and is set to reach 17 trams overall by yearend. more

08.09.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by entrepreneur Valer Blidar, currently has 75 jobs available at its Arad plant. more

05.17.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a major player on Romania’s rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will bring welders, locksmiths and electricians from Vietnam for the Arad plant, where it more

02.25.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, a leading rolling stock producer in Romania, controlled by entrepreneur Valer Blidar, currently has 75 jobs available at the Arad plant. more

01.18.2022

Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, in 2021 doubled its turnover and for 2022 expects it to at least stay at last year’s more

12.06.2021

Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the biggest players on the local rolling stock market, controlled by Valer Blidar, will end this year with RON300 million revenue, compared with RON192 million the more

10.22.2021

Romania’s state-owned passenger railway carrier CFR Calatori reached revenues worth RON1.8 billion in 2020, down 14% year-on-year, while losses more than doubled against 2019, to RON354 million. more

04.05.2019

Valer Blidar, owner of Astra Vagoane Calatori Arad, one of the largest rolling stock makers in Romania, says he will participate in two streetcar tenders in Arad and Bucharest after having already won more

08.18.2017

The four airlines (Tarom, Blue Air, Wizz Air and Ryanair) offering domestic flights carried almost 900,000 people last year, an increase of 77% on 2015, according to Eurostat data. more

05.22.2017

Industrialist Valer Blidar, the owner of rolling stock plant Astra Vagoane Calatori in Arad has turned to Scandinavian countries for sale of railroad and street cars. more

05.13.2016

Rolling stock manufacturer Astra Vagoane Calatori based in Arad and held by businessman Valer Blidar ended last year with 96 million lei (EUR21 million) revenue, down from RON290 million in 2014, the more

04.27.2016

Romania's state-owned passenger railway carrier CFR Calatori targets total revenue worth RON2.23 billion in 2016, up 5.74% compared with last year’s preliminary results, and a gross profit of more

01.08.2016

Romania's state-owned passenger railway carrier CFR Calatori will invest over RON44 million in 2016, from its own sources, in modernizing 30 train cars and it also budgeted RON100 million for the more

02.11.2015

Romanian state-run passenger rail carrier CFR Calatori estimates revenue worth RON2.097 billion for 2015, down 10% from RON2.337 billion forecasted for last year, and a gross profit of RON3.1 million, more

02.02.2015

Vasile Secara on Monday resigned from the position of Chairman of the Executive Board of state-run passenger rail carrier CFR Calatori. more

01.22.2015

Romanian businessman Valer Blidar, who owns Arad-based railcar and tram plant Astra Vagoane Calatori, says the plant hiked its revenue by 20% last year and profit by around 5%, with 2014 as the best more

08.13.2014

Railroad car manufacturer Astra Vagoane Calatori, one of the 20 largest Romanian-owned private sector exporters, took out a EUR10 million line of credit from EximBank for two years, according to the more

06.06.2014

Businessman Valer Blidar, who owns Arad-based railcar plant Astra Vagoane Calatori, says the company ended the first quarter of this year with profit worth 38 million lei (EUR8.6 million), after the more

06.04.2014

Valentin Dorobantu, former general manager of state-run passenger rail carrier CFR Calatori, resigned from the position of member in the company’s Executive Board, people close to the matter told more

05.07.2014

State-owned CFR Calatori, the largest railroad passenger carrier in Romania, ended last year with an operating loss estimated at 390 million lei (EUR88 million), from about RON537 million in 2012, more