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Transport minister wants to replace underground line 6 with ground project
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Relu Fenechiu, the minister of transport wants to replace underground line 6 with a ground project because estimated costs for the connection between North Station and Otopeni Airport is 1.2 billion euro for a small number of passengers. The ground project could be ten times cheaper and much more efficient. Although the situation is “somehow delicate” because there is a contract with the Japanese, the minister said he intends to suggest ...
Cars: One car for every 4.5 Romanians
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The latest statistic data show that Romania’s stable population dropped to 20.1 million persons, while the number of cars grew to 4.48 million, so there is one car for every 4.5 Romanians compared to the year 2002 when there was a car for every 6.5 people. At EU level, the ratio is one car for every 2 persons. In 1990 the ratio was one car for 18 persons. The number of car owners grew by 174% between 1999 and 2002, from 55.7 cars per 1,000 ...
Trade: Electronic market on deadlock in first quarter
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Because of the lack of major competitions like the Olympiad or important football championships, TV sales might drop this year, in an electronic market on deadlock in the first quarter, says Stefan Ichim, the head of Panasonic Romania, the company which brought out its latest product range this week. “The lack of major sports competitions and lower investments in electronics led to a deadlock in the market,” he says. “We hope the ...
Agriculture: Dacian Ciolos: New CAP likely to bring more money to Romanian farmers
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will bring more money to Romanian farmers in the coming period, which is not something all the member states will benefit from, European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos told the Romanian media in Brussels this Thursday.The European Commissioner said that his message on the occasion of his visit to Romania this Friday will be that the new CAP explicitly takes into account the ...
Total grain production, estimated to increase by 43pct in 2020 when compared with 2010
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Total production of grain is expected to increase by 2020, by about 43 percent when compared with 2010, the largest increases going to be registered by corn and wheat, says the strategy drafted by the Presidential Commission for Public Policies on Agriculture Development in Romania.'Increase in the total production of cereals is based on extended cultivated surfaces, by some 16.1 percent and on growth of the average production, of wheat by 23.2 ...
Romania to have 2030 food potential for 38.5 million people
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Romania will have a food potential in the year 2030 for 38.5 million people and export potentials and non-food consumption of raw agricultural materials of 49-50 million euros, reads a strategy drawn up by the Presidential Board on Public Policies for Agricultural Development in Romania.'The national strategic framework for sustainable development of Romania's agrifood sector and the countryside in 2014-2030 mentions that Romania's only chance at ...
Fifty million euros for family farm development
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Romanian beneficiaries who want to develop their family farms may access up to 125,000 euros of European funds at a new project session launched on Tuesday by the Rural Development and Fisheries Payment Agency (APDRP) for Measure 121 - modernising farm holdings.APDRP reports in a press release that it will launch, June 25 - July 31, a new session for the submission of funding applications for measure 121 for developers of family farms, with the total ...
Romania manages to obtain 238.5 million euros for vintage programme 2014-2018
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Romanian managed to obtain 238.5 million euros, namely 47.7 million euros per year for the vintage programme 2014-2018 - with an additional amount of 5 million euros annually compared with the previous programme - , but also 'a less restrictive definition' of the active farmer and more flexibility for the diversification of crops, representatives of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) announced.According to a MADR release, Romania's ...
Processing units collect 909.401 tonnes of milk, down by 0.7 percent; imports drop by 27.8 percent
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The processing units in 2012 collected 887.854 tonnes of cow's milk from farms and collecting centres, down by 1.1 percent (9,494 tonnes) from the previous year, according to the data supplied by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Friday.In 2012 they collected a total quantity 909.401 tonnes of cow's, buffalo cow's, goat's and ewe's milk, down by 0.7 percent from 2011.According to the INS data, the imported milk (raw material) ...
Infrastructure : Commissioner Hahn: It is important for the Calafat-Vidin Bridge to be crossed rapidly, avoiding long lines
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The recently inaugurated bridge over the Danube from Calafat in Romania to Vidin in Bulgaria is an example of what has been achieved under the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), but the important thing now is for the authorities managing it to secure a rapid crossover without too long lines or car jams, European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn said Monday upon the releasing of a first study to weigh up the success of the EU's two ...
Romanian-Serbian cross-border project on development of infrastructure against natural disasters
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (ISU) of Mehedinti (southwest) in cooperation with a structure of Serbia's Ministry of Home Affairs implemented a cross-border project on the development of a natural disaster defense infrastructure, spokesperson Ramona Nistor told Agerpres, on Wednesday.According to the above-mentioned source, the Project is worth 2.29 million euros, the money being attracted from the European Union through the Romania- ...
Constanta port infrastructure can be used to transport goods between Romania and Uzbekistan
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Infrastructure of Constanta port can be used for transportation of goods, an area of strategic importance for Romania and Uzbekistan, said the president of the National Authority for Tourism (ANT), Razvan Filipescu, at a meeting organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan.On June 26-28, 2013, Razvan Filipescu, together with a delegation of businessmen from Romania, is paying a working visit to the Republic of ...
Romania ranks fourth among top countries presenting opportunities for investment projects on infrastructure
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Romania ranks the fourth among the top countries in the region that present opportunities or investments projects on infrastructure, informs the first edition of the PwC Delivering capital projects in CEE/CIS report.'As for the investments projects in the Romanian infrastructure, the requirement of the private financing is essential. Given that infrastructure works are badly needed, it is absolutely necessary to attract the private capital,' senior ...
Real Estate:Number of construction authorisations for residential buildings declines over 21 percent in May
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The number of construction authorisations for residential buildings declined 21.1 percent in May 2013, compared with the similar interval last year, reaching 3,365 authorisations, as reveal the data of the National Institute for Statistics.According to the quoted information, a number of 3,365 authorisations were issued in May for constructing residential buildings, out of which 66.1 percent were for the rural area.The INS data show that, ...
Tourism: Balneal tourism units in Romania can accommodate 30,000 people
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Balneal tourism units in Romania can currently accommodate 30,000 people, which accounts for 20-25 percent of the total accommodation capability of Romania, and if one considered the seaside resorts too, balneal tourism might get ahead of very many kinds of tourism, Nicu Radulescu, president of the Employers' Organization of Balneal Tourism in Romania, told Agerpres on Friday.As for the treatments one can take in balneal resorts, they have diversified ...
Number of tourists increases 2.4 percent in Q1 2013 from Q1 2012
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The number of Romanian and foreign tourists in the first quarter of this year increased 2.4 percent from the same period of last year, Minister Delegate for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Business Environment and Tourism Maria Grapini said at the end of last week in Brasov (Central Romania).She added that the total number of tourists in the first quarter of 2013 stood at 1.42 million, placing Romania first, followed by Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, ...
Infrastructure: 1700 million euro to develop road infrastructure
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The overall volume of European funds contracted until now for the development of road infrastructure in Romania amounts to 700 million euro, the average of such a county project being 6.6 million euro, according to the Institute for Public Policies (IPP). In a press release, IPP points out that Bacau, Oradea, Botosani, Braila, Brasov, ...
Largest cargo aircraft - An-124, used for dangerous cargo transport on Otopeni Airport, also
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Antonov 124-100 aircraft, the largest cargo jet in the world is also used by Volga Dnepr Russian Company for the transport of freight including nuclear elements from Henri Coanda (Otopeni) Bucharest International Airport, the flights from Otopeni being encompassed in an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Romania on the transports of nuclear material, Company's officials told Agerpres.'We carried mainly nuclear products. We used to make ...
Tourism: Best travel agencies in Romania
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Happy Tour and Eximtur are the biggest travel agencies in Romania, according to their business figure. They are followed by Christian Tour, whose shareholder, Cristian Pandel, aged 37, owns the largest group of travel agencies with businesses of 180 million lei. Christian Tout is among the first three travel agencies with a business figure ...
Romanian wine maker Domeniile Ostrov to invest EUR 4 mln this year in wine tourism facilities
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The Romanian wine maker Domeniile Ostrov plans to invest a total of some EUR 4 million by the end of this year in wine tourism facilities, according to the company. The wine maker has already opened Dionis Hotel at its vineyards in Dobrogea, with a capacity of eight rooms, while a villa complex is to be completed in the following three months. For the two units, Domeniile Ostrov spent about a quarter of the total proposed ...