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Cars; Romanian second-hand car imports up 85 pct in 2012
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The Romanian second-hand car imports surged 85 percent during 2012 up to 175,000 vehicles, with Volkswagen being the market leader with close to 42,700 cars, reveals an analysis published by specialist portal auto.ro.As many as 175,000 used cars were imported in Romania last year, marking a 85 percent growth from 2011, when 94,500 vehicles were registered, the analysis ...
Turnover of car trade, 4.9 percent down in first eleven months
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The turnover of car trade went down in the first eleven months of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011 both as gross series and as seasonally-adjusted series by 4.9 and 4.5 percent, according to the National Institute of Statistics. The turnover for market services for population was also dropping 0.9 and 1.0 percent, in both series.Retail and wholesale trade, car repairs went down by ...
Infrastructure : Wizz Air: Almost three million passengers carried to and from Romania in 2012
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Wizz Air carried 2.76 million passengers to and from Romania in 2012, and 12 million from all over the world, 12 percent less than in 2011, the company announced on Wednesday.'Despite the higher price for fuel and such duties as APD (air passenger duty) in the UK, Wizz Air continued to increase the demand for low cost travels and increased traffic by 12 percent in 2012, representing one ...
National roads could be fully rehabilitated by 2020 due to an 'in situ' repair program
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The national program of 'in situ' recycling of national roads, set to be started by the Ministry of Transport, will lead to the rehabilitation of the national roads in Romania by 2020, at a cost of a maximum 200,000 euros per kilometer, Minister of Transport Relu Fenechiu told AGERPRES on Friday.'We can do this through the national program of 'in situ' recycling of national roads. This ...
Healthcare: Liviu Voinea: Health budget 0.5 pc higher
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
There is an increase in the Health budget of 0.5 percent of the GDP, from 4 percent to 4.5 percent of the GDP, said Minister delegate for the Budget Liviu Voinea in a conference at Victoria Palace on Thursday, January 10.'The increase is triggered among others by ensuring the pharmaceutical drugs are paid within 60 days. As far as other areas are concerned, the allocations for Education ...
Tourism: 2012, year when most numerous Austrian tourists come to Romania
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Romania on Thursday became for the second time Austria's partner in the Vienna Tourism Fair. Its star is the region of Sibiu (central Romania) after last year, according to the first estimates, Romania seems to have registered a record number of Austrian tourists, amounting to about 220,000 people.Romania was Austria's partner in this fair in 2007 too when, as it is now, the star of ...
Number of tourists visiting Bucharest increases by 10.5pct, following implementation of several cultural projects
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The number of tourists in Bucharest increased by 10.5 percent from November 2011 to September 2012, following the implementation of three projects with European funding, promoted by the District 1 City Hall, together with the former Minister of Regional Development and Tourism, said Razvan Munteanu, project manager.'Statistical data we received from the General Direction of Statistics ...
Increase in number of river cruise ships, set to reach Danube Delta this year
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The number of river cruise ships set to reach the Danube Delta, this year, will be at least 20 percent higher than last year, according to the leading operator of these routes in Tulcea (east part of the country) .President of the group of companies Europolis, Victor Iancu, told AGERPRES, on Tuesday, that last year of the 186 river cruise ships that announced their arrival in the Danube ...
Telecom.IT : Chinese smart phones invade Romanian markets
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
They are very cheap and as intelligent as already consecrated phones. Chinese smart phones have invaded Romanian markets. People who do not care about trade marks can have intelligent phones ten times cheaper than the famous ones, Antena 1 writes. In this case performances rank second in favour of prices. Although one of the most sought smart phones of ...
Internet World Stats: there are 9.6 million Internet users in Romania
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
In Romania there were about 9.6 million Internet users in June 2012, a million more than at the end of 2011, Internet World Stats data show. About 44% of Romanians had access to Internet last year. Romania is almost the last in Europe for the penetration rate of Internet services, being followed only by Ukraine with 34.1%. But Ukraine is in Top 10 for ...
Wizrom: Companies to invest in operational control software in 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The companies will lay emphasis in 2013 on software applications optimizing production, logistics, distribution and transports, reads a release Wizrom Software.2009-2011 were for most companies a time when costs were cut, 2012 was the waiting year and 2013, as economic analysts describe it, makes necessary a new way of treating operational costs.Another reason for which ...
Agriculture: Romania draws 4.4bln euros from EU rural development funds
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Romania had drawn over 4.39 billion euros from the European Union's rural development funds by the end of last year, accounting for 44 percent absorption rate out of the total amount assigned via the 2007-2013 National Rural Development Programme, according to figures supplied by the Agency for Rural Development and Fisheries ...
Infrastructure: Underground operator Metrorex to be responsible to Bucharest City Hall
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Underground operator Metrorex will be responsible to the Bucharest City Hall, as it happens in all European countries, Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Monday.'The Underground is responsible to the City Hall in all European capitals. The subsidy is obviously kept and we have set a state budget subsidy in this year's budget and in the coming years as well, but the Underground management and ...
Ruling programme: Comarnic - Brasov, Sibiu - Ramnicu Valcea speedways among big infrastructure projects
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
According to the ruling programme 2013-2016 sent to Agerpres on Thursday, the Comarnic - Brasov and Sibiu - Ramnicu Valcea speedways are listed among the big infrastructure projects.Among other projects it is worth mentioning the Arad - Timisoara - Caransebes - Drobeta Turnu Severin - Craiova - Calafat - Bucharest high-speed railway, the rehabilitation of the railway of the Corridor IV of the Cross ...
Telecom .IT: Facebrands.ro: Nearly 5.1 mln Romanians have Facebook account at end-2012
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Romanian Facebook socializing network users hit nearly 5.1 million at the end of 2012, with 89 percent of them having set their city of residence, reveals statistics drawn up by Facebrands.ro portal.The data shows there were 5,084,260 Romanian Facebook users at end-Dec. or the equivalent of 23.69 percent of the population and 59.27 percent of the ...
Bitdefender Report: Windows 8 OS, on list of computer threats in 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The computer threats that are based on Autorun will disappear by the last quarter of 2013, but their place will be taken by other families of adware viruses [software category installed on the computers of Internet users with or without their knowing it], the favorite target being the Windows 8 operating system, mentions the Bitdefender Report Antivirus, published by ...
Romanian e-communication market earns over 1.6 bln euros in half-year revenues
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The revenues recorded in the electronic communications market hit more than 1.6 billion euros (7.48 billion lei) in the first half of this year, marking a 3.5 percent rise from last Jan.-June, reveals the Report on Integrated Statistic Data regarding the Romanian electronic communications market made public by the National Authority for Communications Management and Regulation.According to the Authority, except for ...
Dan Nica: Romania the third EU state to launch 4G technology
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The spectrum auction held in 2012 allowed the 4G technology to be launched in Romania and the market to be reconfigured in terms of services provided to Romanians, says Minister for Informational Society Dan Nica in an interview given to Agerpres national press agency.'Romania has become the third EU member state, in competition with Italy, to launch the 4G technology. We had a successful spectrum auction in 2012 ...
Eurostat : Romania - last place in EU in terms of households with broadband Internet access
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Romania is the last in the EU in terms of households with access to broadband Internet (50 percent), compared to 87 percent in Sweden, and on the penultimate place in the EU regarding the households with Internet access (54 percent), a lower level of access being recorded only in Bulgaria (51 percent), according to the data released by the ...
Cars: Car market declines over 22 percent in first 11 months in 2012
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
The sales of new motor vehicles on the Romanian market stood at 80,439 units in the first 11 months of 2012, down by 22.2 percent from the same period in 2011 (103,371 units), according to the data released by the Association of Car Makers and Importers /APIA/.The decline in car sales stood at 24.9 percent, from 89,032 units sold last year to 66,834 units after the first 11 months of this ...