The last month fuel’s level rise in price, fact which cannot be thoroughly explained, has overcome all expectation. For the transporters, the growing prices at the gas stations is both an advantage, as it provides a justification for some tariffs increase, and a drawback, too, because of the need to reduce every other cost besides fuel. [ continuare ]
Road hauliers asked last month for an additional profit tax on construction companies which make too big profits out of their involvement in infrastructure projects. [ continuare ]
At a reunion organized at Madrid at the end of last month, the European decision makers in air transport agreed to quickly implement the second Single Europe Sky Directive, so that by 2012 the civil flights’ effectiveness could be increased. [ continuare ]
According to the Directive 59/2007, part of the Third Railway Package, engine drivers are to be certified in order to facilitate engine driver mobility from one EU member state to another, as well as from one railway company to another. [ continuare ]
International Lazar Company was awarded the third place amongst the best transport companies in Europe. The classification was made last month, in Brussels, at the European Transport Company of the Year 2010 competition. [ continuare ]
Already a tradition now, last month’s fourth edition of Constanta Port’s Day in Budapest reunited officials of the government, of the port administration, of the professional associations and business representatives from Romania and Hungary. [ continuare ]
The Department for Homeland Security – DHS of the Washington administration announced that they would postpone putting in practice the legislation regarding the pre-dispatching scanning. At the beginning, the regulations aimed the containers whose destinations were the USA ports. The main reason for the need to change the regulations concerning the containers’ scanning was the prohibitive costs. [ continuare ]
Professor Radu Pencea writes about the economic recovery expected this year in Romania and argues that the only way to bounce back from the huge contraction of last year is to encourage investments. [ continuare ]
At the beginning 2010, the Government adopted three new ordinances in order to alter the road transport regulations. Only one of these escaped criticism from the transport companies. Firstly, the Government Ordinance 7/2010, aimed at altering and completing the road transport regime, is one of the bones of contention. [ continuare ]
At the moment, the working market presents no different peculiarities, compared to those last year: stationary wages, blocked vacancies, sackings or even company’s bankruptcies. Waiting for new evolutions of the economy, employers keep their staff in a continuous hovering of uncertainty and deem expectations. [ continuare ]
