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Infrastructure: Wizz Air resumes flights to Tel Aviv from Bucharest and Iasi
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Wizz Air, the low-cost airline, will resume operations to Tel Aviv from Bucharest on January 15th and from Iasi on March 25th. From Bucharest, the flights will be operated five times per week, and then double daily starting in April. From Iasi, flights will operate two times per week. Tickets are available on wizzair.com and the airline’s official app. Air carrier Wizz Air announced that it is ...
Number of passengers who traveled by train down by 4.4 pct in the first 9 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The number of passengers traveling by train in the first nine months of 2024 was 53.718 million, down by 4.4% compared to the same period last year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Of these, 53.479 million passengers traveled within the country and 239,000 made international trips.In the first nine months of the year, road remains the most used mode of transport, accounting for ...
TAROM to offer EUR 23 domestic flights from February 10
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The TAROM national airline is running a special offer between January 13 and 15 for those who want to fly with the company on domestic routes, with fares starting at EUR 23 for one-way flights.The offer is valid for flights operated by TAROM from February 10, 2025.You can choose to travel to Romania at fares starting at EUR 23for a one-way flight (from domestic destinations to Bucharest), at EUR 47 (from Bucharest to domestic destinations), and ...
Tourism :Praid salt mine sees some 470,000 visitors in 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The number of 2024 visitors to the Praid salt mine in Harghita County was slightly up, despite it being closed for a month, right at the beginning of the tourist season, due to underground infiltration.According to salt mine director Sebestyén József, approximately 470,000 people entered the underground attraction last year, by about 5,000 more compared to 2023, making the tourist year quite acceptable taking into account that the mine was ...
Arrivals in tourist accommodation units up 4.4pct in Jan-Nov 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The tourist accommodation establishments, including apartments and rooms for rent, last year, January through November, welcomed 13.31 million people, which means a spike of 4.4 per cent compared to the same period a year before, according to data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Of the total number of arrivals, between January 1 and November 30, 2024, arrivals of Romanian tourists in tourist accommodation establishments ...
Trade: Inatech: The e-commerce sector in Romania was estimated at 11.7 billion euros in 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Inatech Group, a player on the Romanian packaging and insulation materials industry for construction, shows that the e-commerce sector becomes increasingly competitive, growing steadily in recent years, so that the demand for premium, personalised and more resistant packaging has also increased. In 2023, as the e-commerce sector represented approximately 13% of the group's turnover, in 2024 it increased at over 15%. According to the group, the e-commerce sector in ...
Retail trade turnover up 8.7 pct in first 11 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The retail turnover volume (except for trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles), as unadjusted series, recorded an overall increase of 8.7% in the first 11 months of 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).According to the official statistics, in this margin, increases were reported in the sales of non-food products (+14.7%), the sales of food, beverages and ...
Agriculture: Eurobarometer survey shows strong support for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, support for the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) has reached an all-time high. The level of public awareness for the CAP is at its highest level since 2007, with 78% of respondents saying they ...
European Commission has officially reimbursed Romania the sum of 1.12 billion euros
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The European Commission has officially reimbursed Romania the sum of 1.12 billion euros, namely reimbursements from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EGF), the Payments and Intervention Agency for Agriculture (APIA) announced on Friday."In accordance with the FEGA expenditure declaration, sent by the Payments and Intervention Agency for Agriculture (APIA) to the European Commission, on January 7, 2025, the European funds representing ...
Romsilva: Almost 33 million RON in revenue from hunting activities and sale of forest prod
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The revenues of the National Forest Administration - Romsilva from the sale of berries, truffles, mushrooms and medicinal plants, as well as from hunting and fish farming activities amounted to about 33 million RON (6.6 million EUR) by the end of November 2024, according to data provided by the administrator of the state-owned forests.Thus, the highest revenues realized until the end of November this year from non-wood products were generated from the sale ...
Cars: Electrified car registrations up 25.1 pct in 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Romania's new car registrations were 19.4% up in December 2024 compared to the same month in 2023, while the green car segment jumped 25.1% over the entire year, shows data from the Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Directorate General, processed by the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers.According to statistics, overall, December 2024 saw a 23.9% increase in vehicle registrations compared to the same month of 2023, as well as a 40% ...
Real Estate: How rental prices have evolved in major cities across the country
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Rental prices listed on Storia for properties in the 10 cities analyzed – with the most listings on the platform – recorded an average year-over-year increase of 7% (December 2024 vs. December 2023). Compared to the previous month (November 2024), prices in December remained almost the same, with a slight increase of 2%. In December 2024, interactions between tenants and those posting rental ...
Analysis: Romania has among most affordable real estate markets in CEE
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Romania is among the most affordable real estate markets in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), with housing prices growing more slowly than wages, according to a specialized analysis published on Thursday.Colliers consultants are of the opinion that the increase in average wages at a faster rate than the increase in prices has improved housing affordability in Romania, unlike other countries in the CEE region, such as Poland, the Czech Republic or ...
INS: 3.3% increase in number of building permits for residential buildings, in first 11 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
The number of construction permits issued for residential buildings increased by 3.3%, in the first 11 months of 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year, according to data published on Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).According to the cited source, between January 1 and November 30, 2024, 33,156 building permits were issued for residential buildings, and increases were recorded in the following development regions: ...
Cars: Romanian auto market up in 2024, yet new full electric cars down by 32%
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Last year, both the new car market and the imported SH car market grew compared to 2023, ACAROM data shows. The hybrid segment grew strongly, but full-electric cars have less than 7% of the market and recorded a sharp decline in new cars, ACAROM data shows. Overall, in 2024, new car registrations reached 151,105 units, an increase of 4% compared to 2023, respectively 144,611 units. Of these, ...
Infrastructure: AKTOR started drilling at the 4th tunnel on the Apata-Cata section of the Brasov-Sighisoara railway section
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The construction company AKTOR is now boring all four tunnels on the thread of the future Brasov-Simeria railway line, part of the Rhine-Danube Corridor, Brasov-Sighisoara section, subsection 2: Apata-Cata after starting the 4th TBM, named Konstantina, during mid-December. With a length of 100 metres, the 1,500 ton tunnel boring machine started biting the hill’s slope in a location just 4 km ...
Constanta, Romanian port grain terminal to be expanded
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Transport Trade Services SA (TTS), a Romanian freight forwarding services company, is investing 22.9 million euros ($23.8 million) in the expansion of its grain terminal in the Port of Constanta on the Black Sea. The terminal’s storage capacity will be increased to 180,000 tonnes from the current 110,000. The project will add six additional storage cells with a ...
Air transport of goods increased by 6.1% in first 9 months of 2024
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The air transport of goods went up by 6.1% in the first nine months of 2024, compared to the same period of 2023, from 36,250 tons to 38,451 tons, according to data centralised by the National Statistics Institute (INS). The highest shares in the transport of goods was recorded by Henri Coanda Airport Bucharest, with 10,500 tons of goods loaded and 17,200 tons unloaded, Avram Iancu ...
Trade: Value of online purchases went up by 15% in 2024
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
2024 brought a significant change in the Romanians' consumption behaviour, while the average purchase value wwent up by 15% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to an analysis released by Evomag, an online retailer. According to evomag data, demand concentrated on categories like mobile phones, tv sets and large household appliances. An important tendency was that of growing payment by ...
Average per capita beverage consumption of non-alcoholic drinks, wines and distilled alcoholic drinks increased in 2023
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The average per capita beverage consumption went up in 2023, compared to the previous year, for non-alcoholic drinks, wines and distilled alcoholic drinks, while beer consumption dropped, according to data centralized by the National Statistics Institute (INS). “The average per capital beer consumption dropped by 2.9 litres; the average per capita wine consumption went up by 0.9 ...