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Windows Phone 8 surpasses iPhone in Romania, market share now over 10%
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Windows Phone is slowly gaining popularity in Europe, according to Kantar Worldpanel's ...
Agriculture: 175,000 tons of wheat purchased, to be supplied in April by Egypt
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The Egyptian General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) purchased 175,000 tons of wheat from Romania, Russia and the United States to produce subsidised bread, the Ministry of Supply and Domestic Trade announced. The purchased wheat will be supplied starting 11 April over a period of 10 days. Around 60,000 tons were purchased from Romania and the same amounts from Russia. The remaining 55,000 were bought from the ...
Ciolos: Romanian producers should put grain to use in country
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos says it would be better for the Romanian farmers not to massively export grain, but use it in the animal-breeding sector, for example, since the added value would stay in the country in this way.'I think it is important that any product be invested in the agri-foodstuff sector, in the processing area and even with the producers', the farmers' involvement, why ...
Liviu Harbuz: We are preparing cut in VAT on meat and meat products starting in August
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The lower VAT on meat and meat products can be applied starting in August after the above-mentioned measure is discussed with the International Monetary Fund, Liviu Harbuz, a deputy of the Social Democratic Party and vice-chairman of the agriculture commission of the Chamber of Deputies, told Agerpres.'We are preparing the cut in the VAT on meat and meat products, but also ...
Cars: Over 30,000 second hand cars were registered in Romania in the first two months (DRPCIV)
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The number of second-hand cars registered in Romania was,for the first two months of the year over 30,600 units, of almost four times higher than the one recorded in the case of new cars, but under the level recorded over the same period of 2013, the data of the DRPCIV ...
APIA: Motor vehicle sales increase by 18.6 percent in February; motorcar deliveries grow by 18.8 percent
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The total deliveries of motor vehicles in Romania grew in February 2014 up to 6,123 units from the same time span of the previous year, whereas the increase in the number of motorcars was 18.8 percent, according to the statistics of the Association of Romanian Motorcar Producers and Importers (APIA).The classification of the car makes after two months of 2014 is topped by ...
Infrastructure: Traffic on Bucharest airports tops one million passengers
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
In the first two months of 2014 the air traffic totalled 1.006 million passengers on the Henri Coanda International Airport in Bucharest and the Aurel Vlaicu International Airport in Bucharest-Baneasa, a record for the winter months, informs the Bucharest Airports National Company (CNAB).In February 2014 the total number of passengers that came to and left the Bucharest airports grew by 8.13 percent from the same time span of last ...
Works at Sibiu-Pitesti motorway to start in 2015 at both ends
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced that the works at the Sibiu - Pitesti motorway will start in 2015, based on a new feasibility study; he was discussing with media in Pitesti (117 km north of Bucharest) on Thursday.'I have confirmed to the people at Dacia [Renault car factory] that 25 million euros from the 2007-2013 motorways ...
Bulgaria and Romania agree on railway traffic across Danube Bridge 2
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Bulgaria and Romania have agreed that railway traffic across Danube Bridge 2 should go ahead in the “shortest possible time”, Bulgaria’s transport ministry said on March 20 2014 – just less than three months after the head of state railways BDZ said that rail traffic over the bridge would begin in February. Danube Bridge 2, officially the New Europe Bridge, was officially opened on June 14 2013 but the rail tracks that cross it ...
Dragnea: We could complete talks with China over high speed railway line Bucharest-Constanta
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Liviua Dragnea on Monday announced in Beijing that he was trying to speed up the procedures so that the final agreement regarding the construction of the high speed railway line between Bucharest and Constanta (south-east, on the Black Sea shore) could be signed sooner with the Chinese part. 'I discussed [with the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister] about the ...
Tarom could resume direct flights between Bucharest and Beijing as of June or July
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea on Monday made an announcement in Beijing that Tarom is considering the resumption of the direct flights between Bucharest and Beijing starting in June or July.'Normally, if everything goes according to plan, somewhere in June-July we could be able to take a direct fly to China, with departure from Bucharest and landing in Beijing, and the other way round of course. We just hope now that ...
Tourism : Foreign tourists spent over 1.07 billion euros in Romania in 2013
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The number of foreign tourists hosted by accommodation units in Romania stood at 1.714 million in 2013, their total spending reaching up to 4.79 billion lei (more than 1.07 billion euros), according to data released by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).The main reason for the foreign tourists' coming to Romania had to do with their businesses, congresses they ...
Some 3,600 Israeli visitors to Bucharest on city breaks this year
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
City break programs are expected to double the number of Israeli tourists to Romania this year to about 7,000 compared to 2013; of these 3,600 are expected in Bucharest alone, informs the Tel Aviv-based tour-operator Meshek Wings Tours.'For city breaks alone we have 3,600 tourists, and 2,800 for Mamaia. We will be operating flights to Constanta between June-September,' said the agency's commercial director Meidan ...
Tourist route of traditional Salaj homes
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Tourists wanting to spend their stay in a pure Transylvanian style, eating local foods and staying in traditional houses with wooden beds filled with hay and covered with wool coverings can take any of three Salaj County routes that start in the capital city of Zalau and end at old rural homes refurbished under a natural heritage conservation project and open to the public in 2014.The three traditional homes of Iaz, Cizer and Buciumi ...
Agriculture: Minister Constantin: Romania's agri-food exports top imports in two-decade first
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
For the first time in 20 years Romania's agri-food trade runs a surplus of 324 million euros, with exports exceeding imports, Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin declared on Friday in the western city of Timisoara.'For a comparison, the deficit in 2012 was 745 million euros, which means that we have an increase of 1.83 billion euros from two years ago. We mainly export wheat, sunflower and cigarettes. In 2013 we exported 4.7 ...
Tourism: One out of five Romanians did not go on vacation in 2013 (Study)
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
About 22% of Romanians aged over 18 did not go on vacation in 2013, while estimates for this year of the phenomenon are rising, according to a study released by the research company Mercury Research on Thursday. The study shows that 22% of Romanians did not plan a vacation in 2013, while for 2014 only half of the people interviewed declare ...
Cruise market on the rise, records value of nearly 12 mln euros in 2013
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Romanian cruise market is on the rise, recording a value of about 10-12 million euros in 2013, up 6 percent compared to 2012, cruise industry consultant and managing director of Croaziere.net, Ioan Basea told Agerpres. 'Compared with 2012, the number of passengers rose by about 16 percent in 2013, but in terms of value, the increase was only 6 percent, due to the higher number of cheap cruise deals sold. Given the ...
Cooking art tourism seen as possible Romania brand
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The cooking tourism could be a brand for Romania, alongside the monasteries located in Moldavia, the Danube Delta and the Black Sea coast, the National Tourism Agency president Razvan Filipescu said in the opening of the first International Gastronomic Traditions Congress on Thursday.'Cooking art is an important part of the rural tourism and the gastronomic tourism is being intensely promoted at the specialised fairs and festivals in ...
Cars: EY: Automobile industry in Romania will stabilize this year after major decline
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The automobile industry in Romania will stabilize this year after a period of major decline, according to the new report Changing Lanes 2014-15: the automotive C-Suite’s agenda, made by EY Global Automotive Center. “Provisions concerning the automobile industry in Romania show an overall stabilization in the automobile market ...
Number of new car registrations increases by 2.4 percent in February
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The number of the new cars registered in Romania increased in February 2014 by 2.4 percent from the corresponding month of 2013, up to almost 5,200 units, according to the statistics published on Wednesday by the Driving Licence and Vehicle Registration Directorate (DRPCIV). In February 2014, Dacia was leader of new registrations, 952 units, up by 24.28 percent from February 2013, followed by Ford, 458 units, up by 186.25 ...