African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed on Romania’s largest pig breeding farm, where 140,000 animals are being culled. The deadly ASF virus was confirmed on the farm, which consists of three adjacent properties in the southern county of Braila, after water samples were sent to the authorities. Romania’s national veterinary authority, ANSVSA, confirmed the…
The Ministry of Finance and Economy of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business Environment of Romania have signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the economic sphere. The document was signed in Ashgabat as part of the seventh meeting of the joint Intergovernmental Turkmen-Romanian Commission for Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation.…
Lower-than-usual temperatures (down by 2-4 degrees C from their long-term average) were registered in the west and north-west of Romania. Temperatures above the long-term normal occurred in the south of the country and in its northeastern region named Moldova (2 C). Air temperatures averaged within –8 and +10 C, peaked at +12 C in the…
A Turkmen delegation presented the country’s transit and transport opportunities at the seaport of Constanta, the Turkmen Foreign Ministry said in a message. According to the message, the embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania and the administration of the port of Constanta were the organizers of the “round table”. The representatives of the seaport of Constanta,…
The Azerbaijani state oil company (SOCAR) has increased the number of its filling stations in Romania to 35, the company said in a message. SOCAR commissioned another filling station under the SOCAR brand name in the Romanian Ilfov County, according to the message. “This station has become the second one in the county. Three counters…
Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR plans to get hold of up to 10% of the Romanian energy market in a short period of time, SOCAR said in a message quoting Hamza Karimov, director general of SOCAR Petroleum SA, a SOCAR subsidiary in Romania. Karimov was addressing the Romania Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2016…
Last week air temperature fluctuated within +5..+15 degrees C with maximum reaching +20 and minimum lowering to -2. 5-10 cm soil layer warmed to +4-14 C in the daytime. Light rains were observed across the whole territory Romania (5-15 mm over the week). In the North-Eastern regions, where summer drought was severe, soil moisture stocks…