Digital tachometers – the must-have of road transportation starting August, 2007
Basically, what the digital tachometer card does is to keep an evidence the time spent on breaks so it can be adjusted to meet the European standards. MTCT crews, as well as crews of the Ministry of Work, will regularly check the transporters for tachometers. The penalties for every transporter...
AIR TRANSPORT Tarom Budgets 7 Million Dollar Profit
Tarom’s management announced new flights for the summer season, but admitted that some of the internal routes are unprofitable. Most of the flights however have a 70% occupancy rate, while tickets to London, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid are always entirely booked. The loss-making flights are the ones to the province...
Editorial – EITHER WAY, THE LOSERS ARE US
Then came 19th of May, and everything stumbled in front of future’s unknown factors: the same Orban gave the tone when he said the some liberals want to take their hands off the government’s helm. A surprise blow at a time when newly appointed pen pushers seemed ready to start...
Romania stands stil while its neighbours encourage intermodal transport
Rail and inland waterway transport have much lower external costs in terms of accident, climate change and air pollution than road transport. As these transport modes have considerable spare capacity, they can also play a role in diverting traffic away from the congested parts of the road networks. Since external...
EDITORIAL – EU doesn’t care about Romanian motorways
Still, many voices from Bruxelles state almost every day that Romania will get tens of billions of Euro to update its infratructure in the next years and we’d better spend it wisely. But where do the money go? One might say they enter the ground, since they don’t seem to...
Romanian railway companies may be exempted from paying fuel excise
Among the European Union’s long-term objectives are a higher volume of freight railway transports, a gradual liberalization of the railway transport, the setting up in the upcoming years of a sole market of European railway transport and a more steady development of the transport sector, which would reduce the negative...
NEW SOLUTIONS FOR INLAND WATERWAYS CONTAINERSHIP
The new innovative concept developed by Herbert Klein and Richard Anzböck comprises many solutions to optimise the design of a containership. These range from an economy of stowage space to changes in the side board structures, to the shifting of wing voids in the middle of the ship or a...
BELGIUM WILL SUPPORT WATER TRANSPORT AND RAIL
With a budget of 3,5 million euros available until 2013, the state aid will be concentrated in the Walloon region of Belgium, and it is focused on supporting the development of goods transport by inland waterway, rail and combined transport. On one hand, the support of state financing consists in...
A SECURE JOB, THE ULTIMATE MOTIVATION IN 2010
For this reason, employees’ motivation this year is more related to job security and less to financial incentives. Transport and logistics companies are cutting workforce costs and plan no wage increases this year. Although Corina Diaconu, managing director at ABC Human Capital, says there are signs of recovery in the...
EU FINANCING FOR REGIONAL AIRPORTS
Also, the Commission considers it particularly useful to apply intermodal solutions where possible, amongst which the railway bonds are highly rated. Moreover, the draft submits the identification of innovative financial solutions to facilitate the modernisation of these airports. According to Radu Berceanu, Minister of Transports and Infrastructure, the EU has...
