{"id":12835,"date":"2025-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/bulemu-will-supply-bulgaria-with-35-electric-trains-for-half-a-billion-euros\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:00:00","slug":"bulemu-will-supply-bulgaria-with-35-electric-trains-for-half-a-billion-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/bulemu-will-supply-bulgaria-with-35-electric-trains-for-half-a-billion-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulemu will supply Bulgaria with 35 electric trains for half a billion euros."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Bulgarian Ministry of Transport and Communications has signed the largest railway contract in the last 20 years with the Bulemu consortium \u2014 for the supply of 35 brand-new electric trains for the national operator. The total value of the deal exceeds 1 billion leva (around 500 million euros), with last-minute funding provided by grants under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Each train will consist of six carriages and accommodate up to 352 passengers, including 51 first-class seats. This is a large-scale investment that will cover almost two-thirds of the country\u2019s transport needs. Deliveries will begin in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov stressed the importance of the deal, calling it a strategic step to modernize the rolling stock and improve the quality of passenger transportation.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulgarian Ministry of Transport and Communications has signed the largest railway contract in the last 20 years with the Bulemu consortium \u2014 for the supply of 35 brand-new electric trains for the national operator. The total value of the deal exceeds 1 billion leva (around 500 million euros), with last-minute funding provided by grants under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}