07.16.2015

Romanian president Klaus Iohannis signed a decree Thursday appointing Iulian Matache to the position of transport minister. more

04.29.2015

The companies subordinated to the Transport Ministry posted total profit of almost 650 million lei (EUR147 million) in 2014, after having posted total losses of RON460 million in 2013. more

04.09.2015

A little more than 270 million passengers chose road transporters last year to travel in and outside Romania, down 1% against 2013, and of this total around 2.5 million passengers traveled abroad, up more

04.09.2015

After a quite tepid 2014 for Romania’s constructions and transport infrastructure, the first quarter of 2015 breathed new life into these fields. Several highway contracts were signed and an almost more

04.03.2015

Grup Feroviar Roman (GFR), the largest private railway freight transporter in Romania, part of Grampet group, generated revenue worth around 696 million lei (EUR155 million) in 2014, down 5% in lei more

03.31.2015

Pitesti-based group Lazar, one of Romania’s biggest entrepreneurial businesses in the field of freight transport, ended last year with revenue of EUR90 million, slightly down on the year, but more

03.18.2015

Online stores are putting more and more pressure on the logistics companies and the way they operate. Besides regular transportation, storage and delivery services, customers will want innovations more

03.11.2015

Bucharest subway operator Metrorex will increase its fares by 16%-33% at the end of March, according to a draft order of the Transport minister. more

02.23.2015

Romania should sell on the market the natural gas production in the Black Sea and position itself as a relevant country in gas transport in the region, Vasile Iuga, managing partner PwC South-East more

02.12.2015

Sibiu-based Atlassib, Romania’s biggest international road passenger transport operator, expects a 4-5% increase in revenue and the number of passengers its coaches will carry this year, according more

02.09.2015

What hinders Romania’s development is the poor transport infrastructure, says Teofil Campean, the executive who runs the Rondocarton corrugated cardboard plants in Targoviste and Cluj held by more

01.06.2015

US company Uber, which in five years launched, in over 200 cities worldwide, a smartphone application connecting users and transport services providers, is likely to launch its Romanian operations more

12.22.2014

Romania will end 2014 with an absorption rate of 58.55%, meaning EUR1.128 billion, through the EU-funded operational program for Transport, higher by EUR100 million than the forecasted target of more

12.19.2014

2014 meant fewer investments in transport infrastructure and also fewer inaugurations. Compared with 2013, when over 100 km of highways and a new bridge over the Danube, in Calafat-Vidin, emerged on more

12.04.2014

Romanian Transport Ministry plans to restore a road-rail bridge in Olt county, between Slatina and Piatra Olt, a project valued at 43 million lei (EUR9.7 million), VAT included, according to a draft more

11.12.2014

The current economic context is favorable to investments and acquisitions, believes Mircea Vlah, who took over the reins of Romania’s transport company Dumagas this September. more

10.28.2014

Romania's Transport Ministry has requested a one year and a half postponement on the listing of 5% stakes in seven companies under its authority, including the Bucharest Airport Company and the more

09.19.2014

Conpet Ploiesti, the company that manages the system of oil transport through pipelines, considers expanding into warehousing activities, in a bid to generate additional revenue from services provided more

09.10.2014

Road transporters face fragile liquidity and are very exposed to negative shocks such as non-payment of receivables or declining sales, according to Coface Romania estimates. more

09.09.2014

Sibiu-based Atlassib company, Romania’s biggest international road passenger transport operator, carried more than 300,000 people in the first half of the year, 7-8% more than in the same period in more

08.22.2014

The Romanian economy still has growth potential and its trend in the past year helped the business of transport and logistics companies, DB Schenker Logistics chief executive officer Albin Budinsky more

07.29.2014

The story of Filadelfia group, a business set up in Bistrita-Nasaud county by Ioan Sighiartau, a former employee of Rombat Bistrita, started in 1999, by accident, after a request to operate a trip to more

07.09.2014

Oradea-based freight shipping company Frigoexpres, which went insolvent last August, ended the first half of the year with 21 million lei (EUR4.8 million) revenue, down 36% in lei on the year-ago more

06.30.2014

Romania’s state-owned power grid operator Transelectrica (TEL.RO) will increase the average electricity transport tariff by 1.5% starting July 1, from the current 22.16 lei (EUR5.04) to RON22.5 per more

06.24.2014

Romanian Transport Minister Dan Sova on Tuesday stepped down from his position, after just four months in office. more