08.28.2012

Romania’s road authority CNADNR continues to make past due payments into the accounts of Bechtel, even though construction works on the only highway section Bechtel is building, Suplacu de more

08.27.2012

The latest tenders for the construction of 107 kilometers of highway, which attracted bids from 95 consortia of Romanian and foreign companies, brings up the question of how low can the cost of these more

08.23.2012

Romania’s national roads authority CNADNR received 50 bids from Romanian and foreign constructors to build three sections of the Lugoj-Deva highway. more

08.17.2012

The European Commission has approved non-reimbursable financing of EUR210.9 million to Romania for the construction of the Timisoara-Lugoj highway in the western part of the country and a road more

07.19.2012

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Thursday cut the ribbon to open traffic on the A3 highway, linking capital Bucharest to Ploiesti, but said the Government will still charge constructors more

07.13.2012

Romania’s highway construction sites progressed very differently in May: while the Suplacu de Barcau – Bors section, built by U.S. Bechtel, advanced by just 0.5%, progress on the more

07.12.2012

The Cernavoda - Medgidia section of the highway linking Cernavoda to Constanta (southern Romania) will be inaugurated next week, on July 19, national roads authority CNADNR said Thursday. more

07.05.2012

Romania's Government will fine the contractors that are behind schedule on the construction of the Bucharest-Ploiesti highway and transfer the money to healthcare, to benefit people with incurable more

07.03.2012

Romanian Transport Minister Ovidiu Silaghi has dismissed Mihail Basulescu from the position of head of national roads authority CNADNR, citing delays in the construction of the Bucharest-Ploiesti more

06.27.2012

Connecting southwestern Romania, a key region for the country’s car industry, to the national highway network, including through a new motorway built in public-private partnership, is one of the more

06.01.2012

The ten leading highway construction sites in Romania advanced by an average 8% between February 1 and May 1, according to a ZF analysis based on information sent by highway authority CNADNR. more

05.18.2012

Work on the Transylvania Highway will continue in Bihor county after the Transport Ministry will pay US constructor Bechtel 98 million lei (EUR22 million), minister Ovidiu Silaghi announced Friday. more

05.17.2012

Romania’s national settlement board has suspended an auction launched by the public road authority CNANDR for consultancy services to update a feasibility study in view of awarding a lease for the more

05.08.2012

The penalties of 0.05% a day have not had any effect on the three out of four construction companies which have not completed works on A3 Bucharest-Ploiesti highway, with one single section being more

05.05.2012

Romania’s public road authority CNANDR has launched an auction for consultancy services to update a feasibility study in view of awarding a lease for the construction of the Comarnic–Brasov more

04.22.2012

Romania's Ministry of Transport on Sunday announced the discovery on the site of the Orastie-Sibiu highway of a cache of bronze and iron pieces dating from the Iron Age. more

04.12.2012

The cheapest highway built in the past few years in Romania is Timisoara-Arad, where the cost per km is around EUR3.5 million, according to a ZF analysis based on information supplied by national more

04.01.2012

Romanian road authority CNADNR has launched an auction to award a contract for the drafting of paperwork needed to revise the feasibility study for the construction of the Sibiu-Pitesti highway. more

03.28.2012

The Romanian government had until the beginning of February paid almost EUR1.3 billion for the 17 highway construction sites currently underway, reveals a ZF analysis based on information supplied by more

03.21.2012

Italian construction company Astaldi, which built the Basarab Overpass and the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, won contracts worth a total of EUR702 milion last year. The contracts were awarded more

03.14.2012

The Romanian national roads company CNADNR, which each year gets the biggest budget allocated to the Transport Ministry, between 2006 and 2011 had cumulated budgets of over EUR10 billion and completed more

03.13.2012

The ten leading highway construction sites in Romania advanced by an average 7% between November 1 2011 and February 1 2012, according to a ZF analysis based on data provided by roads authority more

02.24.2012

Romania's Transport Ministry will publish notices of intent in March for a revised feasibility study on the Comarnic-Brasov highway section, a project abandoned in 2010, and for the construction of more

02.23.2012

Dorinel Umbrarescu, who owns construction company Spedition UMB, and Nelu Iordache, who controls Romstrade, collected about EUR400 million from the national company in charge of Romania’s national more

02.10.2012

Romania's Transport Ministry has given up trying to finance the construction of the Sibiu-Pitesti highway through public-private partnership, announcing the project will attract European funds through more