Employees of the state-run company Moldova’s Railways are protesting against the two-month delay in paying salaries. Contacted by IPN, the company’s director Vladimir Cebotari said the protest is mounted by units from different subdivisions of Moldova’s Railways and the company’s operational activity is not affected.

“There is a spirit of protest at the company. The situation is old as we paid salaries with a delay of 60 days earlier too, but we pay them. We daily make payments, depending on the amounts we collect,” said the director.

The delay is due to the lower amounts collected following the reduction in the volume of freight generated by the situation in Ukraine, where there were the main recipients and forwarders of goods travelling through Moldova before the conflict there.

A number of similar protests were staged in June. In one case, the company’s employees blocked a railway line for several minutes, the Chisinau – Moscow train being thus delayed.