Road hauliers have cancelled a planned protest last month, meant at getting them to meet Prime Minister Emil Boc in order to present to him a series of claims. The claims were in the end listened by the Ministry of Transports and Infrastructure, and everything ended with a signed agreement between the authorities and some of the road hauliers’ associations. [ continuare ]
Authorities agreed last month to amend the road transport legislation in order to solve some of the demands put forward by three hauliers’ associations. [ continuare ]
Introduction of local transit tolls, stricter controls by Hungarian authorities, and above all a chronic unfair competition on the local market are more than enough grounds for a bad start of the year in road transport. [ continuare ]
iim Kallas, the EU’s commissioner-designate for Transport, vowed to defend a strategic vision at a European Parliament hearing on January 14th, saying he wanted EU money to be spent on large transport infrastructure projects rather than small ones. [ continuare ]
The pace of expansion and modernization of infrastructure is likely to slow to an intolerable level, warn two recently published reports of the consulting giant Deloitte. [ continuare ]
2009 was pinpointed as uncertain, because of the economic recession. Consequently, this year is associated with increased tax burden, as the authorities will have to face budget challenges agreed with the International Monetary Fund. [ continuare ]
The contraction of more than 7% suffered by the Romanian economy in 2009 will hold back its economic recovery this year, especially taking into account the continuing danger of rising unemployment, the poor performance of agriculture, and insufficient competitiveness of domestic industrial products on the foreign markets. [ continuare ]
More and more countries decide to align their national strategies to UE’s goals in terms of greening transport and encourage intermodal transport. Unfortunately Romania stands still while its East and Central European neighbours take action, the most recent example being that of Hungary, which opted for fuel excise duty exemptions and refunds. [ continuare ]
International shipping prices will remain volatile in 2010, despite a partial recovery of sea cargo rates in mid-2009. The Baltic Dry Index, a composite of shipping prices for dry bulk products, hit a record high in May 2008, but the collapse in trade in the global economic crisis then sent shipping prices tumbling by more than 90 percent by the end of 2008. [ continuare ]
Romanian hauliers hoped to be allowed to carry out cabotage operations within other EU member but their expectations were last month ruined: on January 14th, the European Commission published an official document stating that 14 member states had exercised their right to extend restrictions on cabotage until the end of 2011. [ continuare ]
