Valer Blidar to make 50 passenger carriages for Czech operator

Valer Blidar, one of the most important Romanian industrialists, who controls Astra Vagoane Călători and established Banca Comercială Feroviară (Railway Commercial Bank) last year, has won a tender to deliver 50 passenger cars to an operator in Czech Republic, after having signed a contract for 100 carriages with an Italian operator two months before.
“We will sign the contract with a Czech railway company soon. We will build 50 luxury cars by the end of next year that will be used for tourists in the Czech Republic,” said Valer Blidar, 65, owner of the Astra Vagoane Călători passenger carriage manufacturer, whose turnover stood at 51.4 million euros last year, while profit reached 22.8 million euros.
He would not reveal the name of the Czech company with which he will sign the deal, nor its value, but he might collect anything between 25 million euros and 42.5 million euros, according to ZF’s calculations, if taking into account the price per passenger carriage ranges between 550,000 euros and 850,000 euros.