infrastructure

Romania PM Says Govt To Make A Top Priority Out Of Infrastructure Next Year

15:48, 13 Nov. 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Saturday infrastructure works will be a top priority for the Government in 2011 because it is a major resource for economic growth and job creation.

Romanian PM Says Large Infrastructure Works Should Have Been Done In The ’90s

18:51, 11 Sept. 2010
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Saturday the Government is having trouble paying people expropriated for infrastructure works and the matter could have been solved a lot cheaper in the '90s.

Romania Must Invest In Transport Infrastructure To Become CEE Logistics Center – Pwc

13:52, 02 Sept. 2010
Romania must allot consistent amounts of money to develop transport infrastructure, despite budgetary constraints, so that it can take advantage of its natural potential to become a logistics center of Central and Eastern Europe, PricewaterhouseCoopers Romania said in a press release Thursday.

Romanian Tourism Minister Requests Extra Funds For Infrastructure Development

18:46, 17 Apr. 2010
Romania’s Regional Development and Tourism Minister, Elena Udrea, said Saturday that the Government will ask the Monitoring Committee of the Regional Operational Program (ROP) to transfer unused funds from Priority Axis 4 to Axis 5.2, investments into tourism infrastructure.

Romania Sets Off Program To Upgrade Roads, Provide Public Water Utilities Countrywide

12:50, 01 Apr. 2010
The Romanian Government decided to earmark funds for a new program meant to refurbish county roads and provide public water utilities and wastewater cleaning stations in rural areas and administrative-territorial units with high tourist potential.

Romanian Min Denounces Tourism Sector Privatization, Pushes For Investments

13:36, 12 Mart. 2010
Romania’s tourism sector was lousily privatized and investments in the sector, which is in a deplorable state, set off only in 2009, Tourism Minister Elena Udrea said Friday in response to the statements of German TUI officials who said Romania is about eight years behind Bulgaria.

Romanian Infrastructure Requires Major Investments – Foreign Investors Council

14:32, 01 Feb. 2010
Romania’s transport infrastructure requires major investments and the country could get money from the EU, the Foreign Investors Council said Monday, adding Romania’s poor infrastructure makes any trip take twice as long as in Western Europe.

Romania’s Govt To Propose Highway Building National Pact To Be Allotted 1% Of GDP

00:06, 21 Dec. 2009
Romania’s Government will propose a national pact for highway building that should be allotted at least 1% of the gross domestic product and include projects due to be completed by 2020, according to the governing program submitted to Parliament Sunday.

Romanian Transport Min Wants 3.5% of GDP For Railway Infrastructure In 2010

13:09, 06 Oct. 2009
Romanian Transport Minister Radu Berceanu asked the Finance Ministry to assign 3.5% of gross domestic product next year to upgrade the country’s railway infrastructure, from 0.3% of GDP assigned this year.

Romania’s President Dismisses Infrastructure Problems As Real, But Worn Out Cliché

17:31, 17 Sept. 2009
Romania’s President Traian Basescu said Thursday on the public radio the issue of foreign tourists not being able to visit Romania because of the poor state of the country's road infrastructure is real, but became a cliche, as 70% of tourists fly to Romania.

Romanian Govt To Assign Over EUR100M For Infrastructure By Yearend –PM

13:33, 05 Iul. 2009
The Romanian government will assign over EUR100 million until the end of the year to complete infrastructure works underway across the country, Prime minister Emil Boc said Sunday.

EBRD Signs EUR20.3M Financing Agreements With Romania’s Arad, Brasov Mayoralties

17:51, 16 Mai 2009
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) concluded Saturday, in London, financing agreements worth a total EUR20.3 million with Arad and Brasov mayoralties, in western and central Romania, meant to refurbish local infrastructure.

Romanian Road Infrastructure To Catch Up With W Europe In 130 Years – Study

12:06, 04 Mai 2009
Romania’s road infrastructure will catch up with Western Europe in about 130 year but only if it keeps its development pace, according to a study by consultancy firm A.T. Kearney.

Bucharest Mayor Eyes Partnership With Skoda For Trams Maintenance

19:37, 26 Ian. 2009
Bucharest Mayor Sorin Oprescu eyes partnership between the Central Repair Workshops of the public transport company RATB and the Skoda car plants, for assemblage and maintenance works to trams in Romania’s capital city.

Romania’s New Govt Plans To Build 1,000 Km Of Highway

15:40, 16 Dec. 2008
Romania’s new center-left government committed to build nearly 1,000 kilometers of highway by 2012 and start works on another 720 kilometers of highway.

U.S. Ambassador Criticizes Romanian Road Infrastructure, Says Bechtel Does Good Job

12:44, 23 Oct. 2008
U.S. ambassador to Bucharest Nicholas Taubman criticized Romanian road infrastructure in his end-term speech Thursday, but said U.S. construction giant Bechtel is doing a good job and observes contract clauses on the country’s Transylvania Highway.

Four Cars Damaged In Newly Opened Underground Passageway, S Romania

10:55, 23 Oct. 2008
Four cars were damaged Wednesday night by a dislocated sewer lid in the underground passageway opened earlier in the day in Bascov, in Romania’s southern county of Arges.

Romania’s Poor Infrastructure Ousts Czech Investors – Ambassador

13:58, 15 Oct. 2008
Romania’s poor infrastructure is the main obstacle for Czech investments in Romania, followed by tax policy and justice reform, the Czech Ambassador to Bucharest, Petr Dokladal, stated Wednesday during a press conference in Arad city.

Romania’s Former Transport Minister Pins Infrastructure Problems On PM

14:54, 19 Aug. 2008
The lousy stage of construction works on four major infrastructure objectives represents the personal failure of acting Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, the country’s former transport minister Radu Berceanu told a press conference Tuesday.

Romania Might Assign 6% Of GDP To Upgrade Road Infrastructure – Min

18:13, 15 Aug. 2008
The Romanian government might gradually assign 6% of the gross domestic product, starting with 2009 until 2012, to upgrade the country’s road infrastructure, health minister Eugen Nicolaescu told a press conference Friday.

Romania Has Funds For Infrastructure But Deadlines Are Unobserved – Official

12:43, 29 Mai 2008
Romania has the necessary funds to develop infrastructure, but deadlines for works are not observed, state secretary in the Transport Ministry, Septimiu Buzasu, said Thursday.

New Inter-Committee Association To Develop Bucharest Infrastructure Projects

17:27, 29 Feb. 2008
Bucharest city councilors approved, Friday, the creation of the Bucharest-Ilfov Inter-Committee Association for Development (ADIBI), with the purpose of jointly achieving projects targeting the development of the region, financed through structural and cohesion funding from the European Union.