Transport Ministry

The public servants with the Transport Ministry are very courageous to allot from public funds subsidies for the rail transport of people, on their own responsibility, without an electronic system in place to check what happened to this money, Bogdan Chiritoiu, the chair of the Competition Council, told on Wednesday the conference "Modern and efficient: rolling stock that Romania needs," organi

The European Cybersecurity Center must use the zero-trust concept, which is imperative and highly topical in cybersecurity, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Dragos Preda told a debate on digitization today. "The zero-trust concept implies total distrust, permanent verification.

In a bid to do away with corruption and to better prepare candidate drivers, the Transport Ministry has drafted a bill that changes the way tests for driving licenses are conducted.

The European Emergency Number 112 in Greece will be upgraded with the e-Call service, which will send out information directly from vehicles involved in an emergency, according to a ministerial agreement signed on Wednesday.

The decision was made by the Transport Ministry

The public or private roadworthiness testing centres (KTEO) will reopen on Monday (Dec. 14), the Transport Ministry announced on Friday.

The tests are conducted on all private and public-use passenger cars, trucks weighing up to 3.5 tons and motorcycles.

The testing centers closed as part of the health measures introduced during the coronavirus pandemic.

A Transport Ministry draft law seeks to impose some order on the use of scooters on Greece's streets, setting a speed limit of 25 kilometers per hour, prohibiting them from highways and making helmets mandatory. Moreover, only slower scooters will be allowed to share space with pedestrians, while faster ones will have to stick to the road. Stiff fines are also being introduced for violations.

The suspension bridge across the Danube is the most ample road infrastructure development in Romania's history in this area, Transport Minister Lucian Bode declared on Wednesday, as he visited major infrastructure sites in the counties of Braila and Galati. "This is the largest road infrastructure development in the history of Romania for this area.

As COVID-19 lockdowns around the world are easing, tourism professionals working on new alternatives are drawing the attention of tourists who want to holiday in isolation.
Aegean and Mediterranean tours by yacht, known as the Blue Cruise, are in demand by potential customers preparing for the upcoming tourism season in Turkey.

As more businesses and public offices open their doors to the public on Monday following a government decision to further lift lockdown measures, public transportation services are also expected to pick up after seeing passenger numbers nosedive since the start of the coronavirus crisis.