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Arrivals in tourist accommodation units, up by 4.8% in H1
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The number of arrivals in tourist accommodation units increased by 4.8% and that of overnight stays went up by 1.0% in H1 of this year from the same period of last year, according to the data released on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).The arrivals in tourist accommodation units, with a number of 794,100, rose by 3.4% and the overnight stays saw an increase by 3.8% in June ...
Infrastructure: The new system of air traffic management in Romania will cost approximately 26 million euro
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The new system of air traffic management in Romania will cost approximately 26 million euro The contract signed by the Romanian Administration of Air Traffic (ROMATSA) with the Spaniards from Indra which refers to the delivery of a new system for air traffic ...
TAROM to introduce direct flights to Prague as of October 27
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
National airline TAROM will introduce direct flights to Prague as of October 27, and will increase flight frequencies on the routes from Bucharest to Dublin, Chisinau and Sofia, informs the company.'We are glad that Prague, one of the most beautiful capital cities of Europe, is back to our network of routes, to be operated both from Bucharest and from Cluj-Napoca. To positively meet the passengers' requests, starting with the winter ...
Cars: Hyundai on 3rd spot in June's ranking of new car registrations
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Hyundai's share of the Romanian car market rose this June to 6.6%, with the South Korean car manufacturer climbing to the third position in the ranking of new import car registrations, informs a release of local importer Hyundai Auto Romania.Data provided by the dedicated service of the Romanian Police, the Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV), shows that 1,311 Hyundai ...
Telecom .IT: Romania chucks €21m at IBM for Bucharest IT project
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
IBM will get €21m in state aid from Romania's government for a €51.2m project in the country that's expected to create around 900 jobs.Big Blue is planning an IT consultancy project in Bucharest and Brasov, the Ministry of Finance told financial ...
Cosmote, Romtelecom to invest in integrated fixed and mobile phone packages
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The two phone operators Romtelecom and Cosmote controlled by Greek group OTE, with a combined turnover of 1.1 billion euros last year, will launch this fall new packages of integrated fixed and mobile communication services, seeking to change the 'rules of the game in the market,' the two companies' CEO Nikolai Beckers told Ziarul financiar.'You will see our offers updating in the second half of the year. We want to change the rules on ...
Orange, Vodafone sign historic agreement to share network
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Mobile phone giants Orange and Vodafone, which for the past 16 years have been competing for the leading position of Romania's communications market, have signed a surprising agreement to share and jointly develop their networks, which is a first for the local telecom industry.'Vodafone and Orange are announcing the signing of an agreement to share the network infrastructure. The agreement will ...
Healthcare: Minister Nicolaescu unveils draft doctors' pay, hospital, malpractice legislation
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Doctors will have to opt between the public and the private sector, according to the provisions in a draft law concerning doctors' pay unveiled on last Wednesday by Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu.The doctors opting to stay in the public sector would be allowed to work in the private sector as well only after working seven hours a day in the public sector.In the private sector, 60 per cent of the healthcare price would go ...
Agriculture: Topoloveni jam to be promoted in Switzerland, Norway and Russia, until 2016
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Topoloveni jam will be promoted in Switzerland, Norway and Russia, over a period of three years, ie from 2013 to 2016 after, on Tuesday, representatives of Sonimpex Co. and those of the Agency for Payments and Intervention in Agriculture ( APIA) have signed the financing contract from European funds worth 981,613 euros.'After almost two years, today, July 30, the contract was finalized, for the promotion of Topoloveni jam in countries ...
Infrastructure: Over 8.8 mln tonnes of goods loaded/unloaded in Romanian ports in Q1 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The volume of goods loaded and unloaded in the Romanian ports in Q1 2013 stood at 8.818 million tonnes, according to the Ministry of Transport's statistics.The goods loaded in the Romanian ports totaled 5.338 million tonnes, and as many as 3.48 million tonnes of goods were unloaded there.Last year, some 39.52 million tonnes were loaded / unloaded in the Romanian ports. The goods ...
Over 80,000 Romanians listed in the largest loyalty programme dedicated to airline passengers
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
More than 80,000 Romanians are listed in the Flying Blue, the largest loyalty programme in Europe dedicated to airline passengers, Air France-KLM informs on Tuesday.According to the abovementioned source, the number of Romanians having joined the Flying Blue since its launch in 2005 until now exceeds by far the one of the passengers from countries such as Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and ...
Nearly 2.1 million passengers on the Romanian airports in Q1
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Over two million passengers embarked or disembarked in the Romanian airports in the first quarter of this year, according to statistics made public by the Ministry of Transport.Of this total, more than 1.067 million passengers departed from the Romanian airports, while the remaining 1.019 million arrived in Romania.As many as 268,000 passengers were recorded for taking the domestic ...
5.197 million tonnes of freight, transported on the Danube, in first quarter of 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
A volume of 5.197 million tonnes of freight was transported on the Danube in the first quarter of 2013, according to the Transports Ministry statistic data.Out of this volume, 2.206 million tonnes of freight were shipped nationwide and 2.293 million tonnes were carried to other states, the rest representing transiting freight.On the waterways, a volume of 2.714 million tonnes of ...
Abdinbayov: Big infrastructure projects in Romania, target for Azeri investors
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The businessmen in Azerbaijan admit that Romania can be a vast market for absorbing some huge investments and the big infrastructure projects are regarded as a target the Azeri investors are capable of managing, said Farid Abdinbayov, charge d'affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Romania, in an interview to Agerpres. The Azeri investors are already on the European market and this means that there ...
First section of bridge crossing Danube-Black Sea Canal lifted into place
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Builder Tigitrans SA mounted on Sunday, July 28, the first metal section of the new road bridge over the Danube-Black Sea Canal on the main support pylon; the bridge is built by contractor Apolodor Cominpex Ltd for the Constanta National Maritime Ports Administration Company (CN APM).The section built and fitted by Tigitrans SA on the pylon head on the right bank of the canal is a metal deck weighing 586 tonnes, 57 ...
Agriculture : Romania to return to 2nd place in EU in terms of maize production
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Romanian farmers will harvest this autumn a maize crop of 11.3 million tonnes, twice higher than that in 2012, after productivity increased by 92.5%, to 4.14 tonnes/ha, and has reached the peak of the last seven years, according to data from a recently-released July report by the European Commission and quoted by the Ziarul Financiar daily. The maize harvest will thus be a 'breath of fresh air' ...
Without a multi-sectoral approach to agriculture, we will become a sales market even larger than today (official)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Romania can turn into a sales market even larger than at present, if we fail to have a multi-sectoral approach to agriculture and food industry, the Chair of the Presidential Commission for agricultural development public policy, Valeriu Steriu told recently AGERPRES, in an interview.The official also stated that we would not be able to have competitive productions in agriculture without a proper education of young ...
Cars: About 3,938 new vehicles are registered in operational leasing system, in six months
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The operational leasing market continued the level scored at the beginning of the year, attaining 41,514 units, at the end of the Q1, 2013, namely 1 percent higher than that registered in mid 2012, reads the release the Association of Operational Leasing Companies (ASLO).About 3,938 new vehicles were registered in operational leasing system, in the first six months of the year, posing for 20 percent of the total ...
Tourism : Mt. Apuseni caves, Romania's most spectacular
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Cave exploration enthusiasts may find in Alba County Europe's most branched out cave, the largest and deepest underground lake in Romania, as well as the largest stalagmite dome in the country, all in the Mt. Apuseni, about which experts claim they top Europe's karst relief, which explain their nickname of the Land of Stone.Included in the Apuseni National Park are also Scarisoara, the largest glacier ...
Romanian cruise market estimated at EUR 10 ml this year
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Romania's cruise market is estimated this year at EUR 10 million and the upward trend of the recent years is expected to continue because of growing demand for this type of holiday, Razvan Pascu, tourism marketing consultant with Travel Communication Romania, told Agerpres on Thursday.'According to specialist statistics, the global cruise market this year exceeds 32 billion euros, with a total ...