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Infrastructure: New bridge over the Tisa
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
The Romanian National Company for Motorways and National Roads (CNADNR) expects to receive until the end of July, offers for a contract estimated at 830,00 euro, VAT included for the revision/updating of a feasibility study needed to build a new bridge over the Tisa river, in the Toplita area, Sighetul Marmatiei.The contract financed with European money and from the state budget, is estimated between 2.40 million and 2.95 million lei and will be ...
Emirates to start operating flights in Romania
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Emirates Airline, headquartered in Dubai, has spent the last couple of months prospecting the Romanian market and is planning to start operating flights between Bucharest and Dubai by the end ...
Healthcare: TB Programme Manager: 40 pct of tuberculosis patients uninsured
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
National Programme for Tuberculosis Control Manager Gilda Popescu, MD says that 40 percent of the tuberculosis (TB) patients are uninsured.'As many as 40 percent of the drug-sensitive or multi-drug resistant tuberculosis are uninsured. [TB is] a disease that evolves on a background of high levels of poverty and inefficiency of healthcare systems undergoing development or improvement. (...) Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), ...
Infrastructure: Air Moldova carrier to operate international flights for Romanian passengers
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Air Moldova airline will launch a service devoted to the passengers from Romania who want to travel from Iasi (eastern Romania) to Paris, Venice, Frankfurt, Barcelona and other destinations at very advantageous tariffs, with departure from the Chisinau airport, and free shuttle service provided by the Republic of Moldova's carrier. Prices start from 59 ...
Bulgarian Railway Co Prepares Varna-Bucharest High-Speed Train Project
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
A project for a high-speed train connecting Bulgaria's Varna to Romania's Bucharest is being prepared at the National Railway Infrastructure Company. The first stage of the project envisages the reconstruction of the rail line Varna – Ruse, for which a tender procedure is to be called in the second half of the year, according to reports of Trud daily. The ...
Train service between Bulgaria, Hungary capitals to be launched in autumn across Danube Bridge 2
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
”Train services across Danube Bridge 2 which are run by the Romanian operator are regular,” said Vladimir Andreev, Executive Director of the Dunav Most Vidin – Calafat Bulgarian – Romanian company, speaking for Radio FOCUS – Vidin.The official name of the bridge is New Europe Bridge although the name of Danube Bridge 2 is still ...
Coface: A quarter of transport companies had no activity in 2012
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Approximately 25 percent of the active companies in the freight transport sector that have submitted their financial statements for 2012 actually had no activity, according to a transportation analysis carried out by the Coface Romania consultancy firm.Furthermore, half of the active companies reported a turnover of less than 100,000 euro per year.'Only 904 companies in this sector posted an annual turnover larger than one million euros, representing 3 ...
Bucharest subway to receive app. 410 million euro from European regional development funds
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
The European Commission approved on Thursday a 409.5 million euro investment from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for building Line 5 of the Bucharest subway.The project envisages the building of 6.7 kilometers of new rail lines, 10 stations and a depot between Drumul Taberei and subway station Eroilor, the main beneficiaries of the project being the around 335,000 residents of Drumul Taberei neighborhood, according to information released by the ...
Agriculture: AgriMin says horizon of VAT cut on milk, vegetables and fruit to be known in September
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Deputy Prime Minister Daniel Constantin, said on Thursday in Sibiu that the horizon of the tentative VAT cut on milk, vegetables and fruit will be known only in September, after the impact of the reduced VAT on bread is analyzed.'Of course, we are currently considering cutting the VAT on several products, meat included. As Mr. Prime Minister said too, for meat the impact is slightly higher ...
The wines of Bulgarian Producers awarded with Gold and silver Medals at te International Wine Contest Bucharest 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
The Bilateral Chamber of Commerce Bulgaria – Romania ( BCCBR) is proud to announce the performance of the Bulgarian wine producers, represented by them, at the 19th Edition of the International Wine Contest Bucharest 2014, organized under the patronage of the International Organization of Wine and ...
Tourism: Turda saline, partner in a 9-million-lei project in spa tourism
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Forum Group, in partnership with Durgau Turda Saline, the Eco-Energy Association and the Romanian Business Consultancy Association (ACAR) launched 'Workcall' project, worth 9 million lei, devoted to the professional training in jobs associated to spa tourism, Forum Group representatives inform.The project is co-funded from the European Social Fund, the ...
Agriculture: Huayu Industrial Group will develop integrated organic farming projects in Romania
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Romanian Niro Investment Group and China's Huayu Industrial Group will develop integrated organic farming projects, with the first investment and cooperation agreement to this effect being signed this Friday, a Niro Investment Group release informed on the same day.The agreement provides for Romania-based investments by Chinese companies in crops, the production of biomass and biofuels, animal husbandry, dairy and meat processing. ...
Farmers gather 8.3 million tonnes of wheat in July, the largest crop in the last 27 years
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Romania will rank 5th in the top of largest wheat producers in EU and will reduce by a fourth the distance from Poland, which ranks 4th, according to a report released at the end of May by Toepfer, the local leader of cereal traders.“There are encouraging signs, but we should not draw conclusions until at least 25% of yield is gathered. Farmers who have not invested in plant protection, technology and treatments will have losses in point of ...
Romania uses 5 times fewer fertilizers per hectare than other EU states
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Romania has an agricultural productivity smaller than many EU countries because it uses fewer fertilizers per hectare, which means higher consideration for the environment, said the minister of agriculture Daniel Constantin.He showed that in Romania there is a growing potential but there is also care for the environment. “We are preoccupied by the environment and we also need big investments in agriculture to be able to reach a productivity ...
Chinese market to open for Romanian live cattle, pork meat exports (AgriMin)
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin expects the opening of the Chinese market for Romania's exports of live cattle and pork meat in a couple of days, after the field visit of his Chinese counterpart to farms and processing factories; investments in production are equally important, he said on Tuesday.'After this visit, which allows the [Chinese agriculture] minister to see some farms and processing units, I ...
Telecom.IT : Orange Romania expands LTE coverage to Black Sea resorts
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Orange Romania expanded its LTE coverage to all the Black Sea resorts in the country, from Navodari to Vama Veche. The operator's investment in LTE in this area comes as a result of significant rises in mobile internet consumption. Tourists who visit Black Sea resorts are increasingly using their mobile phone to upload photos online, check news on their social network, access different apps dedicated to free time, view various video clips and inform themselves. In 2013, ...
Trade : Romania's retail turnover up over 7 pct, Jan.-April, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Romania's retail turnover volume (excluding trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles) in the first four months of 2014 increased from the similar period of 2013 both in unadjusted terms and adjusted terms for working days and seasonality, by 7.9 percent and 7.2 per cent, respectively, due to a rise in sales of non-food and food products, according to provisional data released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INS). Between ...
PayPoint reports 53 pct increase of number of processed transactions in Romania
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
PayPoint plc, the main cash and online payments operator of the United Kingdom, reports a 53 percent increase of the number of transactions processed in Romania, up to 39.1 million invoice payments over the 2013-2014 financial term, company's representatives announced on Thurdsday.Over the financial year, PayPoint signed contracts with 15 new partner suppliers, and its retail network now accepts payments to all the big market actors. While it ...
Cars: Nearly 6,000 new car registrations in May
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
As many as 5,932 new cars were registered in May, up 22.27 percent from April, according to provisional data published on the website of the Driving Licence and Vehicle Registration Directorate (DRPCIV) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI).Most of the roughly 6,000 new cars registered until May 30 were Dacia models (1,879 cars, up from 1,572 in April); Skoda followed with 538 (481 in April); other frequent ...
Tourism : Chairman of Romania's Health Tourism Association: 6,500 foreign patients were treated in Romania in 2013
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Nearly 6,500 foreign patients came to Romania for health treatments in 2013, with any such patient having spent an average of 3,500 euros, Chairman of Romania's Health Tourism Association Alexandru Constantin said Tuesday.'Statistics drawn up by Romania's Health Tourism Association show that in 2013 there were some 6,500 patients, strictly speaking of the association and its members, clinics and multiple-discipline hospitals. A patient would spend 3,500 euros on ...