Under an agreement signed on Friday by Bulgaria's Danube River Exploration and Maintenance Executive Agency and Romania's Galati Lower Danube River Administration, Romania and Bulgaria will jointly manage the public procurement for the Fast Danube 2 project, news agency BTA reports.The project is aimed at improving navigation conditions on the joint Bulgarian-Romanian section of the Danube River, the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport and Communications announced on Friday.In the opening of the event, Bulgarian Deputy Transport Minister Angel Zaburtov said that the Fast Danube 2 project will enhance connectivity in the Danube region with the rest of the European Union and facilitate the free movement of people and goods. He underscored that the initiative includes large-scale engineering measures to improve navigational safety in the shared section of the river."The investment is strategically important not only for Bulgaria and Romania, but for the entire European Union. I am confident that with good coordination and teamwork, we will achieve the goals set," said Zaburtov. He added that the project is part of the broader framework of the Trans-European Transport Network and contributes to the optimization of the Rhine-Danube Corridor. "It is an example of sustainable and long-term cooperation between the two neighboring countries in transport infrastructure and regional mobility," the Deputy Minister said.Attending the meeting were Romanian ambassador to Bulgaria Brandusa Ioana Predescu, Secretary of State with Romania's Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Ionut-Cristian Savoiu, as well as representatives from the European Commission and relevant institutions from both Romania and Bulgaria.The FAST Danube 2 project, worth almost 230 million euros (VAT excluded) was developed in partnership between Bulgaria and Romania, and was approved for financing under the Connecting Europe Facility. The engineering measures planned for the joint section of the river will improve navigation conditions and traffic safety along the Danube.
The third breast milk bank in Romania has opened at the Sibiu County Hospital, following a RON 13.5 million (about EUR 2.7 million) investment aimed at modernizing the hospital’s neonatology department. The modernization project, financed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, included the replacement of old equipment, a 20% increase in the number of […]
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The 19th edition of TIFF Sibiu, one of the local editions of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), the largest film event in the county, will present a program of international films and the latest productions by Romanian fillmakers, who will attend the event. The festival takes place between August 7 and August 10, with […]
Moldovan carrier Flyone will add a route between Bucharest and Munich starting in October. The flights to Munich will be operated on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. This adds to the flights it has connecting the Romanian capital to Tel Aviv, Brussels, and Verona. With these routes, the airline is responding to the constant demand from […]
