Romanian construction company Delta ACM 93, controlled by businessman Florea Diaconu, will build a motorway in Iraq, whose cost per kilometre is around 2.3 million euros, three or four times less than in the case of motorways in western Romania put up for tender by the National Company of Motorways and National Roads at the end of 2010. read more...

Anca Boagiu, transport and infrastructure minister, is starting to have increasingly more in common with her predecessor, Radu Berceanu, as well as with other previous transport ministers, such as Ludovic Orban and Gheorghe Dobre, who, although they had 2 billion euros per year at their disposal, only talked about building motorways, but failed to walk the walk. read more...

The opening of the Basarab Overpass in Bucharest in a month's time, in April, is conditioned on the weather, say its builders - Italy's Astaldi and Spain's FCC Construction, after Sorin Oprescu, mayor of Bucharest, said a few days ago that the overpass would be open for traffic in a month's time at the latest. read more...

Bucharest mayor Sorin Oprescu said during a trip to China on Wednesday that he wanted works at a suspended highway in the Romanian capital city begin as early as possible. He made the statement as he saw the suspended highway crossing the center of the Chinese capital. read more...

Romania will have some 1,000 km of highway built in public-private partnerships by 2020, PM aide Andreea Paul Vass said on Thursday. She said that 250 km of highway were planned to be completed by 2011. read more...

Passenger air traffic in Romania could rise by 8% to 10% this year, to 11.1 million passengers, from 10.09 million last year, Transport Ministry state secretary Eusebiu Pistru said Tuesday. read more...

The Bucharest Court has halted insolvency procedures for low-cost Romanian airliner Blue Air, the company said Tuesday. read more...

Romanian state-run subway company Metrorex awarded a EUR215 million construction contract for the Raul Doamnei-Hasdeu sector of Bucharest’s new subway mainline to a consortium made up of Astaldi (Italy), FCC (Spain), Delta ACM and AB Construct (Romania). read more...

Romanian Transport Minister Anca Boagiu said Friday the Cernavoda-Constanta segment of the Bucharest-Constanta Highway will be completed next year but the section will be open for traffic this year. read more...

An analysis on the financial situation over the last 10 years of the railway state companies revealed an increase of their arrears by 2,248%, a press release of the Transports ministry reads. read more...

The Transportation Ministry neither is nor has been a poor ministry, so if things are going badly, it is out of ignorance, carelessness or ill will. Former transportation minister Radu Berceanu made one mistake - he trusted people who were not professionals, says transportation minister Anca Boagiu. read more...

Emil Delibashev, country manager of British Airways for the Balkans, who runs operations of the airline in 11 countries, says Romania continues to be the "Balkan locomotive", although the number of passengers transported to and from Bucharest fell 20% last year and revenues were down 15%. read more...

Romania's top two road passenger transporters expect 10% higher turnover this year, one of them hoping for a better economic environment, the other counting on people traveling in search of work. read more...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc urged Cabinet ministers Wednesday to complete a list of public-private partnership projects by March and called for a new auction to award construction works for the Comarnic-Brasov highway. read more...

Paneuropean corridor IV, the priority objective of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure over the next few years, could be fully completed as late as ten years from now, considering that the Sibiu-Piteşti section is still hanging in the air. read more...

Passengers of Wizz Air and Blue Air low-cost airlines who want to ask for information or book plane tickets through the call centre must pay 2.68 RON (0.62 euros) per minute for a phone call from the country, three times more than when calling in another mobile telephony network, according to the data published on low-cost airlines' websites and with ZF calculations. read more...

Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday that construction work on the Transylvania Highway will continue this year on two sectors, namely Gilau-Nadaselu and Suplacu de Barcau. read more...

Traffic on one of Bucharest subway routes was temporarily halted Sunday morning as a woman threw herself on the track and was hit by a train, subway company Metrorex manager Gheorghe Udriste told Mediafax. read more...

Romanian drivers will be required to use snow tires or all-season tires during the winter months, or face fines between 2,500 and 4,000 lei (EUR1=RON4.2619), Transport Minister Anca Boagiu announced Wednesday. read more...

Romanian state-owned airline Tarom wants to break even in 2011, after its 2010 budget provided for a 19.8 million lei (EUR1=RON4.2621) profit, according to a draft government decision by the Ministry of Transport. read more...