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Funds worth over 26 mln euros allotted to Rabla scrappage scheme in 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Rabla scrappage scheme 2012, to begin in February, will have assigned a budget worth over 26 million euros (114 million lei), the equivalent of 30,000 scrapped cars older than ten years, shows the substantiation note attached to the Govt's draft law on approving the 2012 Budget of revenues and expenditures of the Environment Fund Administration (AFM), up for public debate on the website of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MMP) over Jan. 20-30.In 2012, the value of the ...
Romanian motor vehicle market goes down by 7.4 percent in 2011
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Romanian motor vehicle market (motorcars and commercial vehicles) went down by 7.4 percent in 2011 from 119.576 units in 2010 to 110,668 units, Ernest Virgil Popovici, president of the Association of Motorcar Producers and Importers, told a news conference.In 2010 the drop of the market was almost 20 percent and in the past four years there was a drastic contraction of the Romanian market, almost 70 percent.Last year the drop of the motorcar market was 11 percent, from 106,328 ...
Romania may join great agricultural powers in Europe by developing farms and processing units
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Development of medium and large size farms, as well as of units of processing could bring Romania alongside the major agricultural powers of Europe, believes the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of Germany, Ilse Aigner.In turn, the Romanian Minister of Agriculture, Valeriu Tabara, answered questions of present journalists, members of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ), but also to those from Kazakhstan, increasingly ...
Romania might record favourable balance of trade regarding agri-food products in 2016
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Romania might record a favourable balance of trade regarding agri-food products somewhere around 2016, considering the development of the agricultural sectors, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Valeriu Tabara believes.'Whereas Romania has heavily imported agri-food products in the previous years, a significant upward trend in exports and declining imports have been registered since 2010, with the EU member states being our main partners, having a share of 70 percent,' ...
Minister Tabara: We ask EU that Romania should not be forced to sell agricultural land to non-residents, by 2020
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Romania will approach the European Union (EU) in order not to be forced to sell agricultural land to non-residents, until 2020, said on Thursday Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Valeriu Tabara, in a press conference given at the 'Green Week' exhibition.'Romania is not ready at this time to open the land fund and the agricultural land fund and, to this end, we are to send a request to the EU to allow us to extend the deadline after 2016, so that the country is not ...
Siret-Baragan Channel remains most important investment for Romania
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Romania is ready to make business with the German partners in every agricultural sector, but the most important investment remains the Siret-Baragan Channel (eastern Romania), Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Valeriu Tabara said in a press conference delivered at the Green Week Exhibition on Jan. 19.'One of the most important investments for Romania is the Siret-Baragan Channel, for which we have several offers from various continents. We would be glad if also German ...
Less goods shipped on Danube in first 9 months of 2011
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Some 22.108 million tons of goods were shipped on the Danube River in the first 9 months of 2011, down 31.1 percent compared to the similar period of 2010, according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Transports. Out of this quantity, 11.809 million tons of goods were transported nationwide and 4.695 worldwide, with the remainder representing transit.Ferried on the navigable channels were 8.421 million tons of goods. The total number of ships that transit the Romanian ...
Dacia sells over 343,000 vehicles worldwide in 2011
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dacia sold, last year, 343,233 vehicles worldwide, announced the company's commercial director, Thomas Dubruel, on Tuesday, in a press conference.The best sold model was Duster SUV (sports utility vehicle), with 161,203 units, followed by Logan range - 95,452 units and Sandero - 86,578 units.In Romania, Dacia sales stood at 30,867 units and the Logan range represented the main axis commercially, with 21,099 units. A number of 2,519 Sandero cars and 7,249 Duster SUV were sold.Over 15,000 of ...
Dacia, not to manufacture electric cars for now
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Dacia, on a short to medium term, is not to manufacture electric cars, the company's Commercial Director Thomas Dubruel told a press conference on Tuesday, ruling out this way some pieces of information released by the media, according to which the domestic carmaker was intensely working on creating an electric model.'The electric vehicles will not exist on the Dacia carmake, not on a short to medium term. The electric technology is expensive and the Dacia characteristic - the ...
One million euro investment in first artificial ski slope at Sinaia
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The first artificial ski slope in Sinaia (southern Romania) was opened on last Tuesday. The investment was worth one million euros. 'The ski slope we have opened today is the first low altitude one in Sinaia and it will make it possible for tourists to ski in this resort even when the cable transport that is used for high altitude ski slopes does not work because of the wind or the bad weather,' mayor of the above-mentioned resort Vlad Oprea said.He also made it clear that the ski slope ...
Cluj-Napoca - first city in Romania with most important tourist attractions presented on a three-dimensional map
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Cluj-Napoca municipality (center-west) is the first city in Romania which has a three-dimensional map, showing the most important tourist attractions located in the historic city center. According to a release of Cluj-Napoca City Hall , the map was made by Schubert & Franzke company - the most important producer of maps in Romania - and will be provided for free to tourists, through the Tourist Information Center. The map printing was financially sustained by local companies. ...
Romania loses a million hectares of arable land to buildings
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Over the last years, Romania has lost around 10 percent of its arable land, which means the country's arable land has diminished by a million hectares, Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara has recently said.Based on the figures offered by the General Agricultural Census, Tabara stressed that 'since 2002 till 2008, more than 1,000 hectares of arable land disappeared from each county. We no longer have 9.5 million hectares, but 8.4 million hectares'. According to the ...
15.6 percent growth of number of tourists in Romanian accommodation units
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The number of tourists that arrived at Romanian accommodation units was 6.53 million people in the first 11 months of 2011, up by 15.6 percent from the similar time span in 2010, whereas at border checkpoints there was a 2.9 percent decrease in the arrivals of foreign visitors, but also a 5.1 percent one in the Romanian tourists' departures abroad, according to the provisional data published by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Thus, the arrivals that were registered in ...
Online trade amounts to almost 160 million euros
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The volume of the electronic trade with online payment grew in 2011 by 24 percent from 2010 and amounted to 158.9 million euros, according to the data supplied by Romcard in a release sent to Agerpres.By means of the ePayment platform 138.8 million euros were processed, the months with the largest sales being May, June and July, when deals amounted to almost 14 million euros a month.The average value of the online market basket also had a positive evolution, from 58 euros ...
Dacia and Opel lead 2011 new and used car registrations, respectively
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Dacia and Opel car makes held the lead in 2011 by the number of new and old car registrations, respectively, although there was a decline in both categories compared to the previous year, show statistics of the Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV) published on the institution's website.According to the cited source, Dacia holds the 2011 all-year leading position with 23,585 units, down 23.33 pct from the 30,761 units registered in the same period of ...
Real estate transactions in Romania increased to EUR 320 mln last year; Central Europe doubled to EUR 6 bln
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Investments in the Romanian real estate market registered a 32.7 percent increase year-on-year to EUR 320 million in 2011, while the transaction volume in Central Europe (CE) gained 110 percent to EUR 6.1 billion in the same period, according to Cushman & Wakefield property consultancy.Poland remained last year the leading country, in Central Europe, with transactions totaling EUR 2.5 billion. Czech Republic came second, although it registered an impressive 438 percent yy growth to ...
Food prices up 0.4 pct in December 2011
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Food prices increased 0.4 pct in December 2011 from November the same year, while non-food prices rose 0.1 percent, the National Statistics Institute (INS) announced in a Wednesday release.The average monthly inflation in 2011 was 0.3 percent, compared to 0.6 percent in 2010.Service fees also increased 0.3 pct in December last year, but were however by 0.5 percent lower than in the same period of 2010.The average overall price rise over the past 12 months ...
South Africa Imports Yellow Corn From Romani
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
South Africa imported 14,248 metric tons of yellow corn, used as animal feed, from Romania in the week through Jan. 6, the South African Grain Information Service said. About 579 tons of wheat from Russia passed through South Africa’s borders, destined for Lesotho, the Pretoria-based agency known as Sagis said in a statement published on its website last ...
Cow's milk collection dips 2 pct Jan. - Nov 2011
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The amount of cow's milk collected by processing units fell 2 percent (the equivalent of 16,688 tonnes) between Jan 1 - Nov. 30, 2011, hitting 825,526 tonnes, shows data published on Monday by the National Statistics Institute (INS). The steepest decrease y-o-y in the production of the respective period was registered for butter with 345 tonnes (-3.9 pct), cheese - including cheese made exclusively from cow's milk (which accounts for 94.1 pct of the total production), with 1,202 ...
Funds in excess of 860 million euros for direct payments to farmers
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MADR) will benefit from funds in amount of 860 million euros, as loan from the treasury, to provide the necessary financial resources in order to make direct payments per surface for farmers, the Government decided on Wednesday. According to a press release of the Government, the funds will be allocated to urgently provide the financial resources necessary for making payments to the farmers who benefit from the schemes of direct ...