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Greek citrus exports to Romania up 55.86% in H1 of 2016
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Global Greek exports to Romania have increased by 5.33% in the first half of 2016, according to provisional data from the Greek Statistical Authority contained in the prospectus of the Embassy of Greece in Bucharest, recently published online. This increase, as indicated in the relevant document, is mainly due to increased exports in the tariff categories "footwear" (+122%), "citrus fruits" (+55.86%) and "apricots, cherries, peaches" (+44.15%). There ...
Carrefour Opens 'Innovative' Romania Hypermarket
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Carrefour has opened a new hypermarket in Bucharest, Romania, which it describes as offering an 'innovative shopping experience', esmmagazine.com reports. The hypermarket is located in the Park Lake shopping centre in the centre of the Romanian capital, and its the group's 11th hypermarket in the city. Carrefour operates a total of 30 hypermarkets in Romania. Within the store, particular emphasis has been given to fresh produce, ...
Infrastructure : Ryanair expects 1.9 mln passengers to/from Romania in FY 2016-2017
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Irish low-cost air carrier Ryanair announced on Thursday it expects to transport 1.9 million passengers to and from Romania during the fiscal year ending March 2017, seenews.com reports. Ryanair carried some 620,000 passengers to and from Romania in 2015. The air carrier will include in its summer schedule already existing routes to Germany's Berlin, UK's Bristol and Romania's western city of Timisoara, it said in a press ...
Blue Air sets up base in Romania's Constanta, to operate seven routes from Apr 2017
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Romanian air carrier Blue Air said on last Tuesday that it has opened a base at the Mihail Kogalniceanu International Airport in Romania's eastern city of Constanta, from which it will operate seven new domestic and international routes starting April 27, 2017, seenews.com informs. The airport in Constanta is the carrier's seventh base in Romania, to which it allocated a Boeing 730 aircraft, it said in a statement. Blue Air will ...
Bucharest International Airport renews carbon accredited status
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The Henri Coanda Bucharest International Airport (AIHCB) has renewed its Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Carbon Accredited status at Level 2 Reduction, the National Bucharest Airports Company (CNAB) announced on Wednesday. According to the company, the renewal of accredited status is proof of efforts made to reduce carbon emissions and shows ...
Dniproavia links the capitals of Ukraine and Romania
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Dniproavia launched flights between Kiev Boryspil (KBP) and Bucharest (OTP) on 2 September, anna.aero informs. The 734-kilometre link between the capitals of Ukraine and Romania will be flown four times weekly by the airline on its ERJ 145s. According to OAG schedules, the route between the two cities will face no direct competition. The last time that an airline flew commercial flights between the ...
CFR: 400 projects for the upgrade of railway infrastructure
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
CFR runs 400 projects for the upgrade of railway infrastructure, worth almost 22 billion lei (4.7 billion euro). In the first half of the year the company finalized six major investment projects, that stood at 1.32 billion ...
Agriculture : Minimis aids worth 24 million lei to be distributed to Romanian animal farmers
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The Government on Wednesday passed a decision establishing de minimis aids worth 24 million lei to be distributed starting November 15 to Romanian animal farmers for the purchasing of breeding rams/male goats for meat and milk. The Government says in a ...
Achim Irimescu: we have to very serious threats of diseases in swine and sheep
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The minister of agriculture Achim Irimescu stated on Saturday in Pericei that Romania faces at present two very serious threats as regards the possibility of getting from the neighbouring countries two diseases with swine and cattle, diseases which could produce a real economic catastrophe in our country. ‘In the north, in Ukraine there is African swine fever present in other member states as well where this fever produced damage of hundreds of ...
Romania is 9th in the EU as regards the surface of agricultural land cultivated organically
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Romania is 9th in the EU as regards the surface of agricultural land organically cultivated, with ecological produce, according to the most recent data published by Eurostat, for 2015. The first in the top is Spain which grew last year ‘bio’ produce on a surface of 1.4 million ha, followed by France with one million ha and Poland with 500,000 ha of ecological agriculture. In Romania, the agricultural surface ...
Tourism: The tourists’ overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception increased by 7.5% in July 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, both the arrivals and the overnight stays in the establishments of tourists’ reception with functions of tourists’ ...
The number of tourists on the Romanian seaside went up by 12% in the summer of 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The seaside drew in the summer of 2016 with 12% more tourists, on the one hand due to the investments made in the last years by the hotel owners who led to the the quality of the touristic services, the widening of the beaches and on the other hand as a result of the international context which determined a larger number of Romanians to spend their holidays at domestic destinations. July and August were the most requested months on the Romanian seashore, the request being ...
Telecom.IT: Orange Romania expands Home services
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Orange Romania expanded its range of services for the home in urban areas after initially launching these in Cluj-Napoca, and Timisoara, telecompaper.com reports. These include Orange Home Net with through fixed fibre, Orange Home TV with TV through cable, Orange Home Fix for fixed telephony, plus the Orange Smart Home service. Orange Home, which offers at speeds of up to 1 Gbps, is now available to customers in 90 cities ...
Vodafone Romania launches LTE-A in 350 localities
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Vodafone Romania launched data services through 4G +/LTE-A in a number of 350 localities, writes local paper Ziarul Financiar citing director of technology operator Catalin, telecompaper.com reports. The move will allow hundreds of thousands of customers who have compatible smartphones to access internet services at doubled internet speeds. Increased speeds are achieved by using the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz frequency bands for 4G/LTE data service ...
Telekom Romania launches 2016 edition of CSR programme
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Telekom Romania announces a new edition of its CSR project 'Teimplici.ro' which will focus on identifying projects implemented in communities with the help of new technologies in fields such as education, health, environment, innovation, development and social protection, telecompaper.com reports.. During this edition, ten winners will get maximum EUR 7,000 each. Each NGO, in partnership with at least another eligible organisation, can apply on ...
Lenovo Vibe B Smartphone is now Available in Romania
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Chinese computer and smartphone manufacturer Lenovo has apparently launched its latest entry-level device - the Lenovo Vibe B smartphone - in Romania with Orange, chinatopix.com informs. The company did not announce that the device has become available in the country, but it was spotted priced at $80 (approximately €72).The Lenovo Vibe B smartphone can be purchased via Orange Romania as either a standalone package or through the Orange Me 14 plan at $10 ...
Trade: Exports: 951.7 million euros worth of clothing during the first four months of 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Romania exported 951.7 million euros worth of clothing during the first four months of 2016, 7.3 percent more than the same time last year, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) data revealed. Imports reached ...
Infrastructure : Wizz Air to launch route from Romania's Satu Mare to London
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The Romanian unit of Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air said on Monday it is launching a new route from the northwestern Romanian city of Satu Mare to London starting October 31, seenews.com informs. The new route will be operated twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays, the air carrier said in a statement. The airport in Satu Mare is now the tenth operating one for Wizz Air in Romania. Also, Wizz Air's route to London is the ...
'Transport Infrastructure' debate included in the 'Competitive Romania' project
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The implementation of the road infrastructure priority projects according to General Transport Master Plan and the creation of an efficient, professional framework to work out feasibility studies and technical blueprints for the priority corridors were the topics analysed on Monday within the 'Transport Infrastructure' debate which is part of the 16 consultations on the ...
Minister Ghinea: The new roads built in Romania will have bike lanes
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
The new roads built in Romania will have bicycle lanes, announced the minister of European Funds, Cristian Ghinea, during an event organized by the European Commission representatives, business-review.eu reports. „Regarding the EuroVelo routes, we found them blocked in the Government files for 12 years. There’s a Government decision. The problem is that Romania appears on the German maps with these European routes, but they are not real. ...