The Government's lack of vision in supporting the transport infrastructure development

03-09-2010 18:32

Open letter to
Emil Boc, Romanian Prime Minister,
Radu Berceanu, Romanian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure

Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
Dear Mr. Minister,

The Romanian Railway Industry Association (AIF) has taken note of the most recent declarations of central authorities concerning the dismissal of a large number of employees from the national railway companies. We consider this useful to increasing productivity and reducing the financial pressures on railway state-owned companies' budget. However, AIF considers the opinion of the Romanian Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure regarding the level of railway transport acceptability by the population and by companies, as well as that of investments in new technology as being mostly groundless.

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