Romania’s Ministry of Transport approved the technical and economic specifications for a contract under which the Government would pay EUR 973 million for 12 hydrogen-powered trains, with 160 seats each. The contract, handled through the Railway Reform Authority, would include, besides the trains, their maintenance over a long-term period. The trains will be used to serve the routes that are not electrified yet: the route between Bucharest central station and Bucharest Airport (every half an hour), Bucharest-Pitesti (each hour), Bucharest-Targoviste (each hour), Bucharest-Slatina-Craiova (through Pitesti, four times a day), Bucharest-Chitila-Sabaerni-Titu (every half an hour).The financing of the investment project is made from non-reimbursable external funds, through the National Recovery and Resilience Program PNRR and from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.
Romania’s Ministry of Transport approved the technical and economic specifications for a contract under which the Government would pay EUR 973 million for 12 hydrogen-powered trains, with 160 seats each. The contract, handled through the Railway Reform Authority, would include, besides the trains, their maintenance over a long-term period. The trains will be used to serve the routes that are not electrified yet: the route between Bucharest central station and Bucharest Airport (every half an hour), Bucharest-Pitesti (each hour), Bucharest-Targoviste (each hour), Bucharest-Slatina-Craiova (through Pitesti, four times a day), Bucharest-Chitila-Sabaerni-Titu (every half an hour).The financing of the investment project is made from non-reimbursable external funds, through the National Recovery and Resilience Program PNRR and from the state budget, through the budget of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure.