Seven consortia and companies have challenged the Romanian government tenders for the construction of the Timisoara-Lugoj and Orastie-Sibiu highways, part of Pan-European Corridor IV. read more...

The Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry received a bill for over 1 million lei (about EUR245,000) from state-owned airline Tarom for the flight evacuating Romanian citizens from Japan in March, ministry official Doris Mircea said Thursday. read more...

The Regional Development and Tourism Ministry (MDRT) is tendering modernisation and rehabilitation works for 1,386 km of county and local roads of eight counties, with the total estimated value of these projects amounting to 1.78bn lei (436.6m euros), VAT not included. read more...

CFR Marfa, the national freight railway company notified unions and labour inspectors about its plans to lay off 3,000 employees even though the negotiated numbers with the unions was 2,400 starting June 1st, union leader Iulian Mantescu declared quoted by Romanian news agency Mediafax. read more...

Gabriela Bordea was named, starting April 1st, Tarom’s General Director through an order of Transports minister Anca Boagiu, a press release of the airline company informs. read more...

The new passenger terminal at Henri Coandă - Otopeni International Airport entailed 60 million-euro investments and will add 15 boarding gates to the 9 of the old terminal, 104 check-in desks, from the current 52 and 9 walkways from 5 at present. read more...

Wizz Air and Blue Air low-cost carriers are set to add 12 and respectively 7 new flights to their network by yearend, with only three of them to be operated from Bucharest's Băneasa airport, while the rest of flights will be introduced from airports of Bacău, Târgu-Mureş, Cluj and Constanţa. read more...

The European Commission approved the allocation of a 127.5 million euro contribution from the European Regional Development Fund for DN 6 Alexandria – Craiova, South Romania. The 127 km is split in three lots for which the state signed execution contracts with three different companies. read more...

omania’s railway company, CFR holds 1,000 km of unused railway which is why the ministry will shut them, Transports minister Anca Boagiu declared in a seminar organized by daily Ziarul Financiar. read more...

The Romanian "Henri Coanda" Otopeni Airport's emergency committee is to meet Friday afternoon, after a bomb warning concerning a Bucharest-Dusseldorf flight. read more...

Romanian train and subway ticket prices will be changed through an order of the minister of Transport, not according to inflation, to improve the liquidity of the responsible state-run companies. read more...

A Tarom airliner took off on Friday, 6 PM from the Romanian International Airport Henri Coanda for Tokyo in a special flight to repatriate Romanian citizens who requested it, Romania’s Foreign Affairs Ministry reads. read more...

Romanian railway workers have ended their two-hour warning strike Wednesday at 9 a.m. and trains halted during the protest have resumed their routes. read more...

Romanian railway workers ceased work for two hours Wednesday morning and all trains en route have been stopped in stations or on the way. read more...

Ruxandra Brutaru, general manager of state airline Tarom resigned yesterday from the position she was appointed to in January 2009 by former transportation minister Radu Berceanu. read more...

Romanian railway workers will stage a warning strike on March 16, as unionists and railway company representatives failed to find common ground on signing new collective work contracts. read more...

Tarom’s general director, Ruxandra Brutaru announced her resignation on Tuesday. Her position will be taken over by somebody else starting April 2011, sources within the Transports ministry declared for HotNews.ro. read more...

Romanian state-run subway company Metrorex signed a EUR215 million contract with a consortium led by Italian company Astaldi for the construction of Raul Doamnei- Eroilor sector of Bucharest’s new subway mainline. read more...

Alexandru Dobrescu, general manager of Air France KLM airline, which operates daily Bucharest-Paris and Amsterdam flights, maintains that 35% of the company's revenues come from contracts signed with several hundred companies, with these being like a safety belt during the economic downturn. read more...

Atlassib and Eurolines, the two biggest road passenger carriers, with cumulated turnover worth 75m euros last year, are set to renew their fleets by acquiring 20 coaches overall, in the wake of investments of as much as 5m euros. read more...