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A new WizzAir route Cluj-Napoca- Bucuresti starting this summer
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The WizzAir company will bring, starting July the Cluj-Napoca – Bucuresti route with a frequency of six flights per week, the price of tickets starting at 39 lei. The communications coordinator of Wizz Air Doug Oliver stated recently in Cluj-Napoca in a press conference that the new route will start on 22 July. The flights will be operated on Avram Iancu international airport in Cluj Napoca and Otopeni ...
Join Airlines announced the coming on the Romanian market with four routes operated in Arad
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The leadership of the Dutch company Join Airlines announced on Wednesday that they will get on the Romanian market with four routes operated from Arad, out of which three on international routes while the three planes were allocated to domestic routes, the extension of the activity focusing on the airports in Suceava and Tulcea. The chairman of the Join Airlines Bernard Jacobs and the manager of the Arad International Airport Dan Balacel signed on ...
RECORD air traffic on the airports in Bucuresti – almost 9.3 million passengers in 2015
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The National Company Airport Bucuresti (CNAB) recorded in 2015 on the two airports they manage Henri Coanda (Otopeni) and Aurel Vlaicu (Baneasa) a record number of 9.28 million passengers, up by 11.6%. The two airports recorded 108,566 air movements (landing and taking off). Out of the total, on Henri Coanda Airport Bucuresti were recorded 9.27 million passengers and 97,218 aircraft movements. ‘The evolution of the number ...
Real estate : The investments in office spaces represented half of the total volume recorded in the last quarter of 2015
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The investments of real estate industry in Romania reached a record level of 389 million dollars, accounting for 57pct of total investments in this sector in 2015, shows a survey conducted by a real estate consulting company.The investments in office spaces skyrocketed in the last quarter of 2015, and represented half of the total volume recorded during that period. The total volume of real estate investments on the Romanian market is still ...
Tourism : Over 9,000 Romanian tourists will go on cruises this year
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The number of Romanian tourists who will go on cruises this year will grow by 15% from 8,000 last year to over 9,000, estimates Ioan Basea, general manager of Croaziere.net. “There is a growing trend at world level, Romania included. The product is better known and in demand very year. People who have already experienced cruises get back home and promote this product to their friends. In 2015 we had a 16% increase. Of the 8,000 Romanians who went ...
Romania's travel destinations promotion starts in Russia under 'Discover Romania' project
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The Federation of Travel Promotion Associations of Romania (FAPT), the Seacoast - Danube Delta Association (ALDD), together with representatives of the Tracia Chamber of Commerce and Industry are promoting in Moscow Romanian travel destinations under a joint project called 'Discover Romania.'The promotion campaign is unfolded from January 24 through 30. FAPT and ALDD officials have held ...
Romania, Czech, Bulgaria woo Indian tourists
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
According to the South Asia Travel and Tourism Exchange (SATTE) 2016, currently being held in the capital, the number of exhibitors has increased from less than 700 last year to over 750 this year. New entrants included countries like Romania, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Iceland who are keen to enter the Indian market, ...
ANT: the target for this year and the next is a number of 100,000 Russian tourists to visit Romania
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Tourism authorities and also representatives of the private milieu have as target for this year and the next a number of 100,000 Russian tourists to visit Romania according to the National Authority for Tourism's Chairwoman Anca ...
Healthcare: Fundeni Hospital would become in a few months the partner of a transplant platform
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The National Transplant Programme's Coordinator, Dr. Victor Zota, announced on Thursday that Fundeni Hospital would become in a few months the partner of a transplant platform through which organs for major emergencies can be ...
Trade: Total value of local online retail up to 1.4bn euros, in 2015
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The total value of local online retail rose in 2015 by 27.2pct compared to the previous year, to over 1.4 billion euros, reads a GpeC release. "Some relevant companies believe that the value is nearing the threshold of 1.5 billion euros. The figure refers exclusively to physical products sold online (regardless of their nature) and not to services, payments of utility bills, plane ...
Agriculture: Romanian pig farmers want EU exports ban lifted as prices slump
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
The pig breeders of Romania want the ban on live pigs export to the European Union lifted, given that no swine fever cases were reported in Romania for almost eight years. The European Commission should reconsider its stance on the matter, the ProAgro Federation of farmers claimed in a release.On January 26, the National Sanitary, Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) hosted a meeting of ...
Telecom.IT: Symantec has detected and prevented over 1.2 billion cyberattacks in 2015
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Symantec has detected and prevented over 1.2 billion cyberattacks in 2015 with its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), company officials announced on Wednesday in a ...
Infrastructure : Seaports of Constanta, Midia and Mangalia recorded 56.33 million tonnes of traffic of goods
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The total traffic of goods recorded in 2015 in the Romanian seaports of Constanta, Midia and Mangalia was 56.33 million tonnes, up 1.25pct year on ...
Project of a motorway to link Romania's historic provinces Moldavia and Transylvania continues
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The project of a motorway to link Romania's historic provinces Moldavia and Transylvania continues; it will be included in the Master Plan for transportation, Vice Prime Minister Vasile Dincu told ...
Romania ends 2015 with 734 km of motorways
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Romania's motorways totalled 733.941 km at end-2015, which cost 13.799 billion lei plus VAT, according to data released on Friday by the National Company for Motorways and National Roads (CNADNR).Motorways construction peaked in 2013 with 117.885 km, and had its all-time low in 2006 with 17.58 km. Romania's oldest motorway is Bucharest-Pitesti, 96 km, ...
LIOP will finance two air transport investment projects worth over 75.5 million euros
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The Large Infrastructure Operational Programme (LIOP) will finance two air transport investment projects worth over 75.5 million euros, according to data of the European Funds Ministry ...
26 shipping projects eligible identified for financing through the Large-Scale Infrastructure Operational Programme
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Authorities have identified 26 shipping projects worth 537.7 million euros eligible for financing through the Large-Scale Infrastructure Operational Programme, according to data of the European Funds Ministry (MFE). The ministry mentions that all these projects are newly pre-identified, and the total allocation, including EU and national contributions, amounts to ...
Real Estate: Study: Local real estate market increased by 10pct in 2015
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
The local real estate market increased by 10pct in 2015 compared to 2014 both in terms of value, as well as in terms of volume of transactions made, and the upward trend will continue in 2016, according to a study conducted by a real estate consultancy company and sent on ...
New office spaces to be commissioned in Bucharest in 2016
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
New office spaces to be commissioned in Bucharest in 2016 will reach 408,000 square metres, fivefold 72,500 sqm area of 2015, and by 10pct above the 2009 historic record of the local real estate market, according to a report sent by the real estate agency CBRE Romania (a subsidiary of CBRE ...
Study: Two out of ten Romanians want to buy an apartment
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Two out of ten Romanians want to buy an apartment, 40% of them being at the first purchase of the kind, while 41% already have a lodging and would like to move, while the rest intends to buy in order to rent the property, according to a study. The potential of the local residential market, concretely reflected in the housing demand, intensified in 2015 compared to the previous year. Thus, 40.1% of people interviewed declared they have an active real ...