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Topoloveni plum jam can enter bio product stores on Swiss market
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Topoloveni plum jam could enter the Swiss market, in the big bio and natural product store chains, the plum jam being recommended by Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation in Bucharest himself, Jean Hubert Leber, who on Thursday paid a visit to the Topoloveni plum jam plant owned by Romanian producer Sonimpex.'We can create the general collaboration framework between the two states, but the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Romania - ...
Infrastructures : Romania to be involved in two of the nine major European transportation corridors announced by the EC
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The two infrastructure projects to involve Romania are related to the Rhine-Danube and Orient/East-Mediterranean corridors and are part of the nine major corridors which will act as a backbone for transportation in Europe's single market and revolutionise East-West connections.The first of these corridors, the Rhine-Danube, will have a main axe represented by the navigation routes of the Main and Danube rivers and it will connect the ...
TAROM to introduce Bucharest-Geneva direct flights in its winter schedule
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Romania's national airline TAROM will introduce in its winter programme, as of November 26, Bucharest - Geneva - Bucharest direct flights, with prices starting at 99 euros for return tickets, all taxes included, the air operator's representatives announced on Monday.The flights will be operated on Tuesdays, with take-off at 8:10 a.m. from Bucharest, landing at Geneva at 9:55 a.m. and with take-off at 10:40 a.m. from Geneva and landing ...
11.538 million tons of cargo transported on Danube, in first half of 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
An amount of 11.538 million tons of cargo was transported on the Danube in the first half of 2013, according to statistics of the Ministry of Transport. Out of this, 5.24 million tonnes of cargo were transported nationally and 4.634 million tonnes internationally, the remainder representing the transit.An amount of 5.782 million tons of cargo was transported on the navigable channels. Total number of vessels in transit ...
Some 28.8 mln passengers travel by train in H1 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Some 28.8 million passengers traveled by train in H1 of this year, of whom 97,000 people had a foreign destination, according to the statistics released by the Transport Ministry.Also in H1, as many as 22.267 million tonnes of goods were ferried by train, of which 18.085 million tonnes domestically and 4.037 million tonnes internationally.The average daily route of passenger train cars was 253 km per day, and that of the ...
Tourism: Romania to have two European-interest tourist trails for trekking
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Romania will have two tourist trails of a European interest in the period ahead, aimed at trekking, thus joining another 35 European countries members of the European Ramblers' Association (ERA) and the central Brasov city will be the venue of the Association Congress in 2017. The announcement was made on Thursday, after a meeting between the European Ramblers' Association president Lis Nielsen and representatives of the Transylvanian ...
Cars: New Dacia Duster launched on Romanian market; prices range between 10,900 and 17,000 euros
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The new Dacia Duster model that was officially launched on Wednesday, October 16, keeps the elements that made known the 2010 model, but also brings a series of novelties mostly related to the exterior design of the car, engine and interior, with the starting price being 10,900, VAT included, the marketing director for the Dacia and Renault brands, Mihai Bordeaun, stated.According to the commercial director of Dacia, Thomas Dubruel, the ...
New car registrations up in September, following growth of the goods transport vehicles segment
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The number of new car registrations increased in September, for the second month consecutively, by 0.15 percent, up to almost 6,500 units, compared with the same interval in 2012, shows data made available by the Department for Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration (DRPCIV).According to the abovementioned source, in September 2013, out of the total 6,486 newly registered units, the semi-trailers represented the most important ...
Telecom.IT: Public co-financing exceeding 720,000 euros for B-have technology development by Bitdefender
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Producer of Informational security solutions Bitdefender has got a public co-financing of over 720,000 euros (3.2 million lei), for the development of B-have technology that will allow, among other things, detecting and analyzing more rapidly the dangerous software integrated into applications for mobile devices, as well as detection of viruses that initially assume a legitimate behavior, the company informs in a press ...
Real Estate: The most looked-for residences in the big cities of the country
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The majority of those who want to buy a residence in Bucharest and other four big cities in the country are willing to pay up to 40,000 euro, but the largest part of the offer is situated between 60,000 – 80,000 euro. ‘The difference between expectations of the buyers and those of the sellers is a significant one at the level of the big cities, even after five years of crisis. Thus, a fifth of the Bucharest people and ...
Promenada shopping centre, a 130-million-euro investment, inaugurated on last Wednesday
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
An investment worth over 130 million euros was necessary for building the 140 shops of Promenada shopping centre of Bucharest, but also for the construction of a parking lot on two underground levels, with 1,300 places, Raiffeisen evolution managing director Gerald Beck told a press conference on the occasion of the new shopping centre inauguration.'The construction of Promenada shopping centre required an investment worth over 130 ...
Global City Business Park: Top preferences that companies have when choosing offices
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The existence of natural light, the parking possibilities and the proximity to public transportation are some of the most important aspects taken into consideration by companies that are in search of an office space, according to a recent analysis by Global City Business Park, one of the major office projects in Pipera, owned by Global Finance investment fund, the press release sent by the company ...
Agriculture: Farmers, to be able to buy agricultural plots of land, with 10pct down payment
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The agricultural plots of land can be bought by farmers with an only 10 percent down payment and at an advantageous interest rate, after five banks sign agreements in this respect with the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Fund (FGCR), Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Daniel Constantin said on Tuesday in the conference 'Agri-Business on the green: funding businesses in agriculture,' organised in Bucharest.'I also believe that ...
Infrastructure: 12% more passengers at Sibiu Airport
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Sibiu International Airport registered a 12% increase of the number of passengers in the first half of the year, compared to the same period of 2012 and 4% more than the percentage reported by Cluj Napoca Airport, according to data supplied by Sibiu Airport. “The comparative analysis of data in the first semester of 2012 and 2013, ...
Romania likely to join commodity freight project, from the Baltic to the Black Sea
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Romania is likely to join a project on the commodity freight from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, between the Lithuanian Klapeida Port and the Odessa port, of Ukraine, Transport Ministry release informs.Transport Minister Ramona Manescu and her Lithuanian counterpart Rimantas Sinkevicius met in Luxembourg, on Wednesday.'In the spirit of streamlining the bilateral relations between Romania and Lithuania, the two officials ...
Complete map of transport infrastructures to allow identification of development priorities of Romania
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The making of a complete transport infrastructures map will allow the identification of Romania's and neighbouring countries' development priorities, according to Minister of Transport Ramona Manescu.'It is imperative we focus as a priority on the completion of those transport corridors with the biggest valued added for trade exchanges at continental level and to cover thus the main traffic flows. We should start from creating a central ...
Agriculture: Center of Excellence in Cattle Research opens on EUR 3.14 ml worth of investment
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
A Center of Excellence in Cattle Research opened at the Dancu Cattle Breeding Research and Development Station - Botosani County (north-eastern Romania; the facility was built with money assigned from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Sectoral Operational Programme 'Increasing Economic Competitiveness' - Priority Axis 2, Operation 2.2.1.The project is worth over 3.14 million euros (more than 14 million lei) and is ...
Meat tax evasion amounts to 230M euros (MADR)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The meat tax fraud amounts to 230 million euros, after VAT went up 24 percent, (from 19 percent, starting July 2010 - editor's note), Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) State Secretary Achim Irimescu told the National Conference of the Romanian Investors Council.'Once VAT increased to 24 percent, suddenly tens of thousands tonnes of meat and meat products disappeared, 71,000 tonnes vanished in the underground economy, ...
Gov't approves agricultural aid
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The Romanian Government on Wednesday approved several pieces of legislation concerning aid to farmers from European funds and the national budget, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin told a press conference on Wednesday.The Government decisions passed on Wednesday regard subsidising the excise duty on diesel fuel for agricultural use, the size of per area payments and payments for animal husbandry.'With support from the ...
Telecom.IT: Romania's mobile phone subscriptions at whopping 25.5 ml, landline subscriptions at 4 ml
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Romania's communications currently register around four million landline subscriptions and over 25.5 mobile phone subscriptions, while almost half of the Romanian households have a fixed Internet connection and over 85% of them have a subscription for the retransmission of audiovisual programs, shows relevant data provided on Wednesday by the National Authority for the Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM).ANCOM is set to ...