(Article in Romanian, translated with Google Translate. Original here)
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It’s about the railway terminal serving the Port, not the Port itself.
The terminal overhaul is a job of about 100M euro (before tax) but the Transport Ministry is coming up short of the budget on their side, despite having about half funded by EU.
Meanwhile, the bid for contractor is proceeding as planned and a winner should be announced soon, but it remains to be seen how they’ll source the money.
I think it will be covered eventually one way or another, the main worry is that it might invalidate the current bid process and have to be repeated all over again.
@lemmyvore thanks for the reply and the great summary. Indeed, I just pasted the original title (albeit translated), and Club Feroviar sometimes has clickbaity titles (although the informations are pretty much accurate).
I think it will be covered eventually one way or another, the main worry is that it might invalidate the current bid process and have to be repeated all over again.
This is the greatest risk indeed. It’s not too uncommon to have bids canceled in Romania due to this, or because of various contestations from the bidders. Then all the politicians turn a blind eye to the specific project for a few more years. This way, money and time simply gets lost, and we’re left only with waiting for another bid to come up and hopefully be successful. And then the cycle repeats itself if it’s not.
One famous case is for the direct railway between Bucharest and the southern border town of Giurgiu, 60 km in length, which will reopen this year, almost 20 years after it was shut down due to a bridge collapse.