Grampet Group is the largest private rail group in Romania and in South-Eastern Europe. Set up in 1999, Grampet Group includes several companies with activities in all railway sectors, from the transport of goods, rolling stock manufacturing and repairs to logistics management.
Grampet develops complex programmes for the development and modernisation of member-companies and is responsible for the strategic control of all its divisions.
In the past years, the group has extended its activity and currently it provides services in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Grampet owns the biggest private railway operator in Romania, Grup Feroviar Român. In Bulgaria the group operates through Bulgarian Railway Company and Train Hungary, thus succeeding in delivering integrated transport and logistics services to its customers. The group also includes the plants for manufacturing, repair and modernisation of freight wagons or coaches Remar Paşcani, Reva Simeria and Grampet Debrecen Vagonyar kft, in Hungary.
Transbordare Vagoane Marfă is another important company which delivers freight wagons transshipment services on different gauges in all railway stations of the European Union’s border with Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova. Grampet also owns Rolling Stock Company, a company dealing with the lease of coaches and locomotives, but also Trans Expedition Feroviar which manufactures and sells spare parts for wagons. The shipping companies in Serbia, Montenegro, Germany, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova turn into account the potential, scope and experience of the group’s railway transport and logistics operators.
In the next period, Grampet Group will expand its activity in the Austrian, Czech, Slovakian and Greek markets. At the same time, two new shipping companies are to be established in Kazakhstan and China. In this way, Grampet will be able to provide railway transport and logistics services to its customers through its member companies on the routes linking the North, Adriatic and Black seas. The integration of these services is a strong advantage of the group with a decisive impact on making the activity efficient and providing its customers with complete solutions which help them save time and money.
Grup Feroviar Român, Grampet Group’s most important project, is the biggest private rail transport operator in Romania which has managed to expand its activity beyond the country’s borders, thus becoming one of the most important regional players in the area.
GFR provides national and international railway services and related services tailored to the needs of its customers: railway freight transport, wagon shunting services on industrial platforms, periodical repairs and current maintenance of rail lines, freight wagon and locomotive leasing, railway logistics services.
GFR imposed on the rail transport market by delivering the best services at competitive prices. Established in 2001, as shunting operator, GFR became railway transport operator. In 2007, the company was already providing transport services in all railway stations in Romania. Two years later, the company becomes the first private operator in Romania to collaborate with Ukrainian Railways and in 2010, it starts delivering freight transport in the Republic of Moldova. At the end of 2010, GFR took an important step when taking over the rail transport activity of Rompetrol Group and buying the entire rolling stock fleet of Rompetrol Logistics.
Last year, Grup Feroviar Român’s market share was of 27% and the company targets a 33% share in the rail transport market for 2011. At the same time, GFR is national leader in the transport of oil products. In 2010, the company carried over 9.2 million net tonne/km and has reached a turnover of over EUR 121 Million. This year, GFR has achieved the performance of carrying over 1 million net tonnes per month. Currently, the company manages a fleet of 325 locomotives and over 13,500 wagons. Among GFR’s most important customers there are Rompetrol, OMV Petrom, Lukoil, Conpet, Holcim, Lafarge, Arcelor Mittal, Dacia-Renault and Butan Gas.
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