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Aerial view of the metal railway bridge over the river Prut at Ungheni, with the rail line and the locality around it, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The electrification of the railway to Ungheni has gone to tender: a contract of nearly 290 million lei, with bids due by 5 August

Romania's national railway (CFR) has published, in the Electronic Public Procurement System (SEAP), the notice for the design and construction of the electrification of the Iași–Border line — the concrete step our explainer a week ago flagged as the «next» one. The contract, estimated at 289.55 million lei excluding VAT, covers the Socola–Ungheni section and is the Romanian half of the joint project with the Republic of Moldova, which is to give Bessarabia its first kilometre of electrified railway — right through Ungheni. The deadline for bids: 5 August 2026.

Ion Calmis·30 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
Aerial view of the steel railway bridge over the Prut River at Ungheni, with the railway track and the surrounding locality, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The railway bridge over the Prut at Ungheni goes under technical assessment — a step toward Moldova's first electrified railway stretch

After Bucharest approved the electrification of the Iași–border line, the Moldovan side got to work: on 25 June, representatives of the Railway of Moldova met in Iași with their Romanian counterparts to coordinate the Iași–Ungheni line project. Among the agreed steps — the technical assessment of the bridge over the Prut, which is to be reconstructed, and preparing the systems for the future electrification, to European standards.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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