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Fenechiu: For Constanta Port I'd agree to allying with Asia, South Africa operator
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Romanian Transport Minister Relu Fenechiu told Realitatea TV news channel late on Wednesday that he personally does not agree with the idea of the Black Sea port of Constanta (southeastern Romania) associating with Rotterdam Port and he would agree an alliance with an operator based in Asia or South Africa.'We have a project which shows that for over a third of Europe it is two times more profitable to be supplied ...
Undersecretary of State Constantin Matei prepares development plans for Constanta Port
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Liberal Constantin Matei, who was sworn in as Undersecretary of State with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MTI) two days ago, exclusively told Agerpres on Sunday that he was preparing development plans for the Constanta Port. He stated that he will approach all the problems in the maritime sector and also that he intends to propose and finalize truly essential projects in this field. ...
Agriculture : Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin: payments through Operational Programme- Fisheries, likely to be unblocked by March 15
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
There are prerequisites that the European Commission (EC) should unblock the payments, ceased in January 2012, in the Operational Programme - Fisheries (OPF), by March 15, Romania's Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin said after the AGRIFISH Council, in Brussels, on Monday.'At the moment, there are prerequisites that the payments should be unblocked by March 15. As you know, they are still ceased till ...
AgriMin Constantin: We are in advanced talks with CE for 1bn euro for irrigation
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Romanian authorities are in advanced talks with the European Commission for funds of 1 billion euro to rebuild Romania's irrigation system, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constantin told the Realitatea TV commercial television channel.The 1-billion-euro amount has been advanced by Word Bank experts in a study regarding the rebuilding and modernisation of Romania's national irrigation system.Constantin said ...
EU funds attracted under PNDR exceed 4.8 billion euros
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The EU funds drawn by the Romanian rural environment have exceeded so far 4.8 billion euros, meaning an absorption rate of 55 percent, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin said on Thursday at the launch of the information caravan on EU funds.'So far, we have a contracted degree of 74 percent as far as EU funds under the National Rural Development Programme (PNDR) are concerned, and an ...
Romanian farmers receive EU funds of 4.24 bn euros in past six years
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The financial aid extended to the Romanian farmers from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) exceeded 4.24 billion euros in the 2007-2012 period, with some 86 percent of that amount, 3.65 billion euros respectively, representing payments made under the Single Area Payment Scheme (SAPS), announced on Friday the Agency of Payments and Intervention for Agriculture (APIA).In the said period, ...
Tourism : Western Romania tourist sites promoted by Traveler Across Bihor project
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Arranged caves, heritage churches and traditional craft objects are being promoted by the County Council of Bihor (western Romania) by means of the tourist project dubbed Traveler Across Bihor that was completed on Thursday.The project aims to capitalise on the Bihor tourist potential and draw the tourists to the county by a unified presentation of the diverse tourist offer at home and on the ...
Tourism, sector with potential to develop Romanian-Turkish relations
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Tourism represents an important sector, with potential to develop the Romanian-Turkish bilateral cooperation, with Romania being interested in increasing the number of foreign tourists.That was one of the conclusions of the meeting between Minister-Delegate for SMEs, Business Milieu and Tourism Maria Grapini, and president of the Romania - Turkey Bilateral Chamber of Commerce Tamer Atalay, the Ministry of Economy ...
Number of tourists staying overnight in Romanian accommodation units in Jan up 5.6 pct
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The total number of tourists who chose to stay overnight in the Romanian accommodation units stood at 859,900 in Jan. 2013, up 5.6 percent compared to the similar period of 2012, with nearly 21 percent accounting for foreign holidaymakers, according to data published by the National Statistics Institute (INS) on Friday. Out of the total number, the overnight stays of the Romanian tourists accounted ...
Healthcare: Romania’s pharma industry has to recover EUR 1.3 bln in delayed payments
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Romania will enforce a new European directive regarding delayed payment terms starting March 16, which would reduce the payment requirements for subsidized medicines to 30 days, the EU average. Pharma producers need to be paid EUR 1.3 billion in the account of delivered medicines. The Romanian Association of International ...
Ministry of Health wants to finalize, by June 30, the National public health strategy
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The Government has approved a memorandum prepared by the Ministry of Health, proposing that, by June 30, a National public health strategy has to be worked out, the Executive informs in a press release.In this process of evaluation and redesign of the national public health system, all social and administrative components will be involved, with direct responsibilities in the management, organization ...
Cars: National car fleet grows 27pct in past 5 years to almost 4.5 mln cars
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The national car fleet reached in 2012 almost 4.5 million units, on a market where Dacia ranks 1st, with almost one third of the total figure (some 1.417 million units) and German car makes Volkswagen and Opel close the podium, with nearly one million units, show the findings of a survey drawn up by the auto.ro portal and consulting company Daedalus Millward Brown.Thus, in terms of the volume of the ...
Agricuture : Minister of Agriculture Daniel Constantin: Our pledge to consumers is zero tolerance to fraud or irregularities
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The authorities' pledge taken to the consumers in Romania and abroad is zero tolerance to fraud or irregularities, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Daniel Constantin on Wednesday, February 20, referring to the irregularities discovered by the inspectors of the Medical and Veterinary National Authority and for Food Safety (ANSVSA) when they checked businesses on the meat market.'Our checks prove ...
Romanian agriculture lacks system service in the field
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Romanian farmers should understand the fact that the service system in this field is very important and is missing for the time being, Adrian Vasilescu , the councilor of BNR governor declared on the national radio station. “Our farmers do not understand how they could get only 20% of a service system , while the rest of 80%, or 30% and 70% of services would ...
Cars: Duster, an unexpected success in India: 24,000 units sold in 6 months
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Renault found the ideal solution for the Indian middle class by means of Duster, which is big enough, safe and cheap to propel sales of the French group which is getting close to competitor Volkswagen on the third largest car market in Asia, Bloomberg informs, quoted by Mediafax. Renault has sold about 24,000 Duster cars since the launch of the SUV in the Indian ...
Real estate : Bucharest ranks 42nd among most expensive 63 office markets in the world
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Bucharest went down three positions to 42, in the classification of the most expensive 63 office markets in the world, although the rent level in the central area went up slightly in 2013, according to a study of real estate consulting company Cushman & ...
Infrastructure : Transylvania Speed Way cannot be funded by state-budget only
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said in Cluj Napoca (northwest of Bucharest), on Wednesday that in the case of the Transylvania Motor Way, financial resources cannot come from the state budget, only.'We back up all the projects related to Cluj Municipality and County, and Transylvania and which we can really achieve beginning from protracting the tarmac and the replacement of the Somes River bed, and continuing with ...
New TAROM managers want same kind of planes, possible contract with Mitsubishi and profit in 2016
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
TAROM company might have a contract with an important firm on the field from Boeing , Airbus to Mitsubishi in 2014 for an exchange of old airplanes with new ones of the same kind. So the company will become profitable again in 2016 and even earlier, the new general manager of the company, Christian Edouard Heinzmann told the ...
Tourism: Europa Royale, the newest hotel in historic Bucharest
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Europa Royale Hotel, inaugurated last year in the historic center of Bucharest registered business of 1.1 million euro in 2012. The occupation degree was of 51%. September, October and November were the best months when occupation degree reached 63%. Hotel guests came 80% from the business area, while the rest of 20%were ...
Telecom.IT: Frequency for 4G services at operators’ disposal since May
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The 800 MHz frequency band will be available to Romanian telecommunications operators for 4G services as of May 2013, minister Dan Nica declared on Monday at an event organized by Cosmote Romania for testing 4G services at Cosmote Romania. “Together with the Defense Ministry we have succeeded in freeing the frequency sector earlier than we should have. So in ...