September 25 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Romanian media on Friday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
ZIARUL FINANCIAR
-The European Investment Bank may co-finance with 40 million euro the upgrade of a unit of the Paroseni power plant implemented by Romanian state-owned electricity producer Termoelectrica.
- Hungarian life insurance company Central European Insurance Group (CIG) has entered the Romanian market, employing 160 and planning to open 17 branches in the country, the marketing director of CIG Romania Asigurari de Viata, Robert Emanoil, said.
- Romania could have attracted at least five billion euro in investment in warehouses, logistics facilities, filling stations and shopping centres if it had finished in time the construction of projected 500 kilometres of motorways.
BUSINESS STANDARD
- Porsche Romania, the largest car importer on the local market with net sales worth 1 billion euro last year, announced a 60% decline in this year’s sales, one of the steepest falls in the automotive sector, said the Chief Executive Officer of Porsche Interauto Romania, Dana Cortina.
MEDIAFAX
- German car tuning company Mansory has opened a representative office in Romania and expects to end this year with a turnover of 100,000 euro and to double the figure next year, Mansory Romania’s client relations officer Andrei Vintilescu said.
- As of October 1 Romanian low-cost carrier Blue Air will relaunch flights from the northestern airport of Suceava to Venice and Vienna and will strart flying to Rome, the president of the Suceava county council, Gheorghe Flutur, said.
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