Grup Feroviar Român


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.

Equipment

Railroad cars

  • tank ;
  • tank ;
  • platform;
  • open ;
  • covered ;
  • specialized for coal ;
  • specialized for cereals transportation ;
  • specialized for the transport of bulk chemical fertilizers ;
  • specialized for the transport of assemblies.

    Electric locomotives

  • Co'Co' ex-CFR Class 40
  • Bo'Bo' ex-CFR Class 43
  • Bo'Bo' ex-SNCF Class BB 25100/25150/25200
File:60-1504 RO-GFR Sarmasag 04.jpg|thumbnail|Locomotive Class 60 of GFR, formerly ND2 of the China Railway

Diesel–electric locomotives (LDE)

  • Co'Co' ex-CFR Class 60/62 2,100 hp
  • 1,300 hp
  • 1,250 hp

    Diesel-hydraulic locomotives (LDH)

  • 1,250 hp
  • 700 hp
  • 450 hp

    Other

In July 2007 GFR offered a bid for Hungarian company MÁV Cargo of around US$300 million and thus qualified for the final price offering for the company, from third place just behind Slovak company Speed Trans Consortium and a Cyprus based fund.
Control of Bulgarian Railway Company A.D. is shared by five Bulgarian companies and one Romanian company, Grup Feroviar Roman Bucharest.
The company also bought in 2006 the largest Serbian wagon construction and maintenance company, Zelvoz Smederevo.