Reactivation of railway corporeal assets

In Romania, nobody has executed new railway works or performed ample construction activities for the transportation field, for the past eleven years, excepting some embankment maintenance or consolidating works, as well as some capital repairing works related to certain railway bridges.
That is why, The Construction Company CCCF - Bucharest SA- the most specialized Romanian company in the railway construction field, with more than 115 years of experience, had to perform during the last years only connecting railways, some capital works for depot and triage lines and a few capital repairing works for the railway bridges on routes like Bucharest - Craiova, Bucharest - Pitesti, Dangeni - Saveni - Darabani and on the Arad bridge over Mures River.
Until to 1990, Romanian railways used to be considered as the “second army of the country,” due to its disciplined and rigorous instructed personnel.
The constructors form CCCF working with such a conspicuous beneficiary, had to be directly involved in obeying certain working rules as related to quality and responsibility, thus performing durable works, fact that made the governmental authorities that succeeded all these years, not to pay attention to the new investments and modernization activities regarding the Romanian railway structure.
The endorsement of Romania to several international conventions and agreements for the integration of the national railway network within the European one, for the purpose of increasing the quality in the public and freight railway transportation, has as main priority objective to accede to a higher speed. This has also led to some international financial support.
Bucharest North - Campina railway route is a part of the 4 pane-European Corridor on the Romanian ground, belonging to its main branch Curtici - Arad - Sighisoara - Brasov - Bucharest - Constanta. During the bid form August 2000, CCCF Sa was declared winner, in its quality of general constructor, for the execution of customary works in several railway stations and for rehabilitation of railway bridges and catwalks, by implementing classical technologies for the entire route of 95 km-long.
CCCF SA was also appointed winner of the bid for the execution of railway infrastructure and superstructure between Bucharest and Capmina, in a joint venture with the Swetelsky (Austria) and Wiebe (Germany) companies. The Swetelsky company is the head of this joint venture, participating with technology and specialized trains in the realization of the formal coat of the railway infrastructure and in the machinated execution of the rail superstructure.
The duration for the execution of works is of 600 days, whereas the works will be started in May 2001.

Eng. Nicolae Berbec, reporting