Popular ridesharing company Uber launched a new service dedicated to teens in Bucharest. The new option allows parents and guardians to invite their teens aged between 13 and 17 to join their family profile and request their own rides with parental supervision and custom-built safety features.
With Uber for Teens, trips will have safety features automatically enabled, including PIN verification, live trip tracking, unexpected event alerts, and access to Uber’s Emergency Button, the company...
Romanian energy minister Sebastian Burduja announced that he is considering extending the capping-compensation scheme, in its current form, for another 3-6 months after April 1, 2025 – when it was supposed to be phased off. The ministry is working on several scenarios, he said. One of the scenarios is to keep the compensation-cap scheme for […]
Turkish exporters want to use a new maritime route for their goods and are looking at Romania’s port of Constanta in the context of hundreds of trucks waiting for a long time at the border crossings with Bulgaria, especially at those at Kapikule and Hamzabeyli, according to Türkiye Today. ...
The European Commission has refused to grant a temporary derogation from the obligation to purchase greenhouse gas emission certificates (CO2) for natural gas and coal-fired energy produced by Romanian companies OMV Petrom and CEO for the Republic of Moldova, according to
Romania's Competition Council announced on January 9 that it found that the country's three major cement producers, Holcim Romania, Romcim, and Heidelberg Materials, were responsible for price collusion and decided fines in a total amount of RON 217 million (nearly EUR 44 million). Holcim, which has to pay the largest...
International rating agency S&P announced it would carry out its first review of Romania's rating on January 24 and another two times later this year in April and October, according to
The Romanian owner of the major local dairy Simultan, Florin Herbai, is in talks about selling the company to a foreign investor, according to Economica.net. "We have been discussing selling [the company] for about eight months....
