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A company owned by the honorary consul of Kazakhstan is also involved in the deal.

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In a recently published announcment, the [Hungarian] Defence Procurement Agency, a state-owned firm overseeing military investment, revealed the result of a 1.57 billion HUF tender, the winners of which will provide rail transport for the Hungarian Defence Forces in Hungary and other European countries.

The tender was won by GHIBLI Transport Ltd, which will subcontract the task to CER Hungary Közép-Európai Vasúti Árufuvarozási, Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Zrt, who will be performing said tasks until 2028.

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The publication of the results is somewhat unusual. The Defence Procurement Agency’s purchases are often classified – indeed, the tender was not published in the official Hungarian procurement gazeta. However, the original tender and its result have been added to the EU’s TED database. So while no technical details have been published (such as what needs to be transported on rail), the contractors’ name and the contracts’ value have been revealed.

It has also been published that the contractors are expected to transport cargo to and from most NATO member states in Europe, including the Baltic states, the Balkans, Scandinavian countries, as well as Austria, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Turkey.

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The winning GHIBLI Transport Ltd. is majority (62%) owned by CECZ Central European Commercial and Logistics Cooperation Belt Ltd., which is in turn owned by three Chinese businessmen and a Chinese company called Shandong Dihao International Investment Limited Company.

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