09.20.2017

Romania is rapidly approaching the point, if it has not reached it already, where the current infrastructure will act as a brake on growth, the Foreign Investors Council (FIC) said in a statement more

07.05.2017

Romanian transport minister Razvan Cuc said Wednesday projects to build 800 kilometers of highways will start this year, adding the government will take measures to eliminate delays caused by more

06.11.2015

Romania spent RON14 billion (nearly EUR3.5 billion) for 570 kilometers of new highways over the last 25 years, mostly financed by the European Union, according to Business Construct magazine. more

12.15.2014

The transport sector got 6.3 billion lei (EUR1.4 billion) this year, but just RON4.65 billion (EUR1 billion) were spent. For 2015, the RON6.1 billion (EUR1.4 billion) budget is 30% higher on paper, more

09.01.2014

Romania currently has ten highway sites on which builders are working or are set to start works by year-end, according to a ZF survey based on data provided by the national road authority CNADNR. The more

03.26.2014

Romania will have to attract EUR1.28 billion through the EU-funded operational program for Transport for 2014 and 2015, within the 2007-2013 Cohesion Fund, and the country’s roads authority CNADNR more

03.20.2014

Romania’s road authority CNADNR said it wants to build 93.1 kilometers of highway in 2014, based on a budget of 2.65 billion lei (EUR0.58 billion), lower by RON1.1 billion than in 2013. more

11.07.2013

The ten major highway construction sites in Romania advanced by an average 3.3% from September 1 until October 1, according to ZF calculations based on data sent by the country’s public roads more

08.13.2013

The most expensive highway section built in Romania in the past few years is Gilau-Campia Turzii-Turda, with an average cost per km of around EUR23 million, shows a ZF analysis based on data from the more

06.13.2013

Almost 140 km of highway costing around EUR930 million have 2013 as a completion deadline, shows a ZF analysis based on data provided by the National Highways and Roads Company in Romania (CNADNR). more

05.08.2013

Comarnic-Brasov (58 km) and Craiova-Pitesti (121 km) highways, as well as Bucharest’s southern bypass route (48 km), are set to be built under concession, but the huge costs accepted by the Romanian more

04.08.2013

The company in charge of Romania’s highways and national roads, CNADNR, will get 5.8 billion lei (EUR1.3 billion) budget this year, down 27% on the allocation in early 2012 and 5% less than it more

02.27.2013

The Romanian Government aims to change the highway lease system so that the contract closed with the investor will state that should the investment not be recovered to the amount estimated from the more

01.23.2013

The Romanian Government forecasts it will provide almost EUR1 billion for the construction of highways and national roads upgrade in 2013, both from foreign funds and the state budget. more

12.11.2012

The national roads authority in Romania (CNADNR) intends to put up for concession two contracts for designing and building Craiova-Pitesti and Ploiesti-Buzau-Focsani highways, which are set to cost up more

12.06.2012

The Bucharest-Brasov, Craiova-Pitesti highways and Bucharest’s highway-standard ring road are among the roads desperately needed for years, says Valentin Stoica, general manager of design firm more

08.22.2012

Romania's public roads authority CNADNR has received 23 bids from companies and consortia in Romania and from abroad for the construction of two sections of the Timisoara-Lugoj highway and the more

07.02.2012

In the two months since being instated, Romania’s new government has mainly stood out through political disputes and failed to come up with any concrete plans to restart the economy, at a time when more

04.01.2012

Romanian road authority CNADNR will set up auctions to award contracts for design and construction works on three 71.9 kilometer-long sections of the Lugoj-Deva highway, and on the second section of more

01.11.2012

Romania ranks second in the region in terms of kilometers of highway finalized last year (58 kilometers), behind Poland, which opened 217 kilometers of highway to traffic last year, according to a more

12.31.2011

In 2011, only 58 kilometers of highways were launched, but Romanian authorities plan to open for traffic at least three-times more next year. more

12.29.2011

The Romanian Transport Ministry completed rehabilitation works on 489 kilometers of national roads this year, spending about EUR400 million, according to the data supplied by the institution. more

12.20.2011

Even though the local economy has not made it out of the crisis yet, construction and construction materials makers continued investments this year, announcing new plants or acquisitions of smaller more

12.06.2011

Romania’s Transport Ministry will finalize about 90 kilometers of highway in 2012 and 550 km of the fourth pan-European transport corridor should be open to traffic in 2013, Transport Minister Anca more

11.29.2011

Romania’s Transylvania Highway will be completed in 2020 at the earliest but works may take as long as until 2026, 22 years after they began and with costs that have long exceeded initial estimates. more