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 provides services in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Austria, 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. Recently, the group has also expanded in Austria, through Grampetcargo Austria, which provides railway transport services and logistics services. 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. Also, the group has recently taken over Reloc Craiova repair plant dealing with the repair and modernisation of locomotives. 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 Romania, Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Montenegro, and Germany turn into account the potential, scope and experience of the group’s railway transport and logistics operators. In Romania, 2012 represents the moment when the shipping activity present in the group is included in the new shipping company Grampet Logistics.
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 holds a significant share in the Romanian railway transport market being the next railway freight transport operator after the state-owned company. Last year, GFR carried more than 1 million net tonnes per year. 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
GFR latest and most significant projects include the first training RID class for the wagons used in the transport of dangerous goods. On the occasion, GFR has inaugurated the first school wagon used in the training of the staff dealing with this type of transport. This is the first such wagon in Romania and the second in Eastern Europe and production costs has amounted to EUR 40,000. The training has been organised in collaboration with the Logistics Department of Petrom Refinery, in GFR’s locomotive depot in Brazi.
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