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Bucharest airports register 57 million lei profit in six months
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Bucharest Airports National Company in the first six months of 2011 on the two airports of Bucharest - Henri Coanda International Airport and Bucharest-Baneasca Aurel Vlaicu International Airport - registered a total traffic of 3.44 million passengers and a 57 million lei profit (approximately 13.44 million euros).According to the Bucharest Airports National Company, 3.44 million passengers conveyed in transit the two airports in the first six months. Moreover, 48,785 ...
Government adopts regulations on civil aviation security
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The Government on Wednesday adopted an ordinance on the quality control in the civil aviation security, aimed at ensuring the national legislation being in line with the relevant legislation of the European Union.According to a press release, the law establishes the Transports and Infrastructure Ministry prerogatives as competent authority responsible with coordinating and monitoring the European common basic standards being implemented, as well as with developing, applying and ...
Sofia Turns Romania-Bulgaria-Greece Dream Road into Priority Project
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Bulgaria's Cabinet has declared the road from the Danube city of Ruse on the Romanian border to the Makaza Pass on the Greece border to be a project "of national importance" in a long-awaited move. The Ruse-Makaza road linking Romania and Greece through Central Bulgaria is supposed to be part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9 leading from Helsinki, the Baltic states, Moscow, Kiev, and Bucharest to the Greek port of Alexandroupolis on the Aegean.The ...
Renault, best selling light car in first seven months
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Renault ranks first on the Romanian market of the light motorcars (under 3.5 tonnes) in the first seven months of 2011, with 862 units sold, 189.3 percent more compared to 2010 when the French manufacturer ranked sixth, according to data revealed by the Association of Car Manufacturers and Importers.Next rank Fiat with 812 units sold between January and July 2011, Volkswagen with 666 units, Ford with 620 units, Citroen with 562 units, Mercedes with 466 units and Peugeot with 407 ...
PM Emil Boc: Minimal package of health services to be adopted by March 2012
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
The minimal package of health services will be adopted by late March 2012 to eliminate the differences between the benefits granted to some insured compared to others within the range of the same percentage of revenues directed towards the health insurance services, Prime Minister Emil Boc said on Friday.During an interview granted to the public station Radio Romania News, PM Emil Boc said the health reform aims to 'finish the project by December, the minimal package of health ...
Over 300 ha to be afforested in 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Some 300 ha of land will be afforested this year, according to the National Afforestation Movement 'We plants good deeds in Romania!,' initiated by the EcoAssist Association, the same which last year finalized the national cleaning campaign 'Let's Do It, Romania!'So far, pilot afforestation has been done in four counties (Arges - south, Ialomita - south, Mehedinti - west and Timis - west) with the involvement of 1,230 volunteers, five environmental NGOs, three Prefect's ...
Romanian wheat, rye crop at more than 7.12 mln tonnes - agriculture min.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The wheat and rye production got from almost 99 percent of the harvested area amounts to more than 7.127 million tonnes, being by 6 percent higher than the production anticipated for 2011 at 6.712 million tonnes, show the figures centralised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Aug. 10.The area harvested to wheat and rye by Aug. 10 was of 1.955 million hectares, accounting for 99 percent of the 1.977 million hectares estimated to be harvested this year. The ...
Hoteliers maintain that current summer season will bring no profit
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Hoteliers say that the current summer season is to bring no profit, and that now, when resorts are filled to capacity, they try to recover losses in early summer, when the number of tourists was very small.'Half of summer we had a decrease of 40 percent, then of 20 percent. We worked very hard for promotion, for special programs. We steadily try (...) to be flexible because, in times of crisis, I think business flexibility is essential to stay on the market. But we can not talk ...
Places associated with Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, promoted by Tourism Minister
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism will promote a package tour including places associated with the life of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu.'We found out that there is on the part of foreign tourists, especially those coming from former communist countries, an intention to visit the places associated with Nicolae Ceausescu's life. Mainly they want to see the places in Bucharest because they are most accessible, but there is also a desire to see the place where he and his ...
Seaside offers: 88 euros for 6 nights, bed and breakfast in a 3-star hotel
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The 'Holiday Mini Prices - Seaside for Everyone' programme, 2011 autumn edition will be launched on Thursday by the Seaside-Danube Delta Association, in collaboration with the Federation of Travel Employers' Associations (FPTR), the employers' associations from the seaside and National Association of Travel Agencies (ANAT), informs a release remitted by ANAT.'This year, the programme will extend in the interval September 1 - October 15, in fact representing a unification of the ...
'RAbla' scrappage programme for tractors to begin on September 12
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
'Rabla' scrappage programme for tractors will have a budget of about 51.6 million lei this year and is going to start on September 12, announced the Environment Fund Administration.According to the quoted source, the programme of replacing the old tractors and self-propelling agricultural machines will be made up of a first stage of registering and validating the manufacturers, a stage running between August 25 and September 5. The owners of tractors and self-propelling ...
Rabla 2011: About 8,000 cars scapped and almost 13,000 new cars bought by now
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Almost 80,000 cars older than 10 years were scrapped through the 'Rabla' scrappage programme by August 18, whereas the number of the new cars purchased through the same programme reached about 13,000, reveal the data sent by the Environment Fund Administration (AFM).The AFM data also reveal that 12,942 cars were purchased by mid-August through the 'Rabla 2011' scrappage programme, 197 percent more than the May figures, when there were 4,355 cars bought. Out of this total, 2,773 ...
Blue Air prolongs deadline to submit projects on planning Bucharest new airport
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Romanian low-cost airline Blue Air will prolong the deadline to submit offers for planning the airport the company intends to develop in the southern area of Bucharest, according to the information Blue Air representatives . The deadline for submitting the offers was Aug. 19.Blue Air intends to build a private airport at south of Bucharest, covering an area of 250 hectares, in the commune Adunatii Copaceni. The decision to build Bucharest's third airport (the other two are Aurel ...
CFR Railways Passenger Division carries 27.83 mln persons by mid-year
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
The Romanian Railways CFR Passenger Division carried 27.83 million passengers in the six months of this year, by 4 percent less on the same period a year ago, when it carried 29 million persons, show figures communicated by the company to Agerpres.The drop in the number of passengers came after several sections were closed and several routes were leased to private companies and amid the Romanians' preference for other means of transportation, minibuses in ...
Romania Raises Fines For Economic Operators Selling Products That Can Be Mistaken For Food
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Romania will raise fines for the selling, importing, exporting and production of products that can be mistaken for food to 1,000-3,000 lei (EUR400–EUR1,200) from the current RON70-RON100, according to a draft order of the Romanian Consumer Protection Authority. A Government decision passed in 2000 bans the production, sale, import and export of products that look like food and pose risks to consumers' health if ingested. The bill states the current fines are too low and fail to discourage ...
Romania can become one of countries exporting food products and grain Minister Tabara
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Romania can become one of the countries exporting food products and cereals and may re-enter the European market with vegetables and fruits, as it was in the '70s and '80s, said, in Baia Mare, Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara.'In terms of exports, I would like Romania not to discuss about a simple internal market, but about its presence on the international market with agricultural products. To enter the exporters club of wheat is not an easy job, worldwide. This is a club ...
Small-scale slaughterhouses, a huge opportunity for farmers
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The possibility of starting up small-scale slaughterhouses, as provided under an order of the National Sanitary Veterinary Authority (ANSV), represents a huge opportunity for farmers and livestock breeders, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Rural Development Tanczos Barna declared on Friday. The cited official explained during a press conference held in Miercurea Ciuc (northwest of Bucharest) that the initiative of setting up small-scale slaughterhouses had come from farmers, ...
CBRE: Real estate transactions advance to 279.1 million euros in H1 of 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The total investment volume of sales and acquisitions on the real estate market in the first half of 2011 stood at 279.1 million euros, registering a 23.4 percent growth compared with the similar period of 2010, according to the latest study of CBRE Romania.Out of the total investment volume, 125.6 million euros represent the office space segment value, followed by the industrial one - Europolis Logistic Park, worth 85.9 million euros, the residential one - Adama portfolio, worth ...
Darian DRS: rents for shopping spaces decrease 15% in H1 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
The nationwide average renting price of shopping spaces in H1 2011 decreased by some 15% compared with H1 2010, according to the analysis conducted by consulting company for evaluation Darian. Compared with 2010, when the deliveries of new retail spaces stood at approximately 190,000 sqm, in 2011 these will reach 250,000 sqm, mainly due to the Palas Iasi, Maritimo Shopping Center and Electroputere Craiova projects, the first phase of the Colosseum Bucharest project and the ...
Black Sea hotel operators anticipate good end of season
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Seaside hotel operators expect their sales to go up 5 pct this year compared to the 2010 summer season.Chairwoman of the Littoral Danube Delta Association (ALDD) Corina Martin told a press conference held in the seaside resort of Mamaia (dubbed ‘The Pearl of the Romanian Littoral') that the current sales of coastline hotel operators have equaled the sales of the previous year but hopes are for the business to get a slight turnaround until September. 'We have attained the ...