$25m CFR Calatori-HP deal

CFR Calatori (national railway passenger carrier) will sign a deal with Hewlett Packard and the IT Centre of the CFR Infrastructura SA by the end of February, in order to equip its stations with computerised systems that issue tickets and handle reservations, general manager Valentin Bota announced. The contract is worth approximately $25 million. “We are in talks over this commercial contract with HP and the IT Centre, CFR Infrastructura’s branch, to install ticket issuing and reservation systems at 760 stations across Romania. At the moment, Gara de Nord (North Station) in Bucharest is the only one that has such a system, which is to be upgraded, though. We will be looking for a loan to fund the project, without requiring the State to secure it,” Valentin Bota told Ziarul Financiar. He explained the project would start being run this year in Bucharest and other locations that already have a fibre optics infrastructure in place and would be completed in three years. ZF