News about Infrastructure
Russia has temporarily suspended the acceptance of applications for ships to pass through the Kerch Strait and halted shipping on the Don-Azov Canal following attacks by Ukrainian drones on Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov.
On Friday, July 10, 2026, during an auction organized by the capital city’s municipality, land parcels were sold for a total of 59 million lei.
Attacks on Ukraine’s port infrastructure are hampering grain exports. The situation could worsen in the fall, when the new harvest hits the market.
According to the National Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management (INHGA), over the next week, the flow rate of the Danube at the Baziash section will drop to 1,850 cubic meters per second, which is significantly below the long-term annual average for July (4,700 cubic meters per second).
Wizz Air announced today the launch of a new route from London Gatwick Airport to Chisinau, Moldova.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on Friday night, the Russian military carried out a coordinated strike on port infrastructure facilities in the Odesa region that were being used to receive, store, and transship military cargo.
Romania’s first new warship in 36 years has arrived in Constanța. The Turkish-built corvette *Contraamiral August Roman* entered Romanian waters after being commissioned in Istanbul in June. Defense Minister Radu Miruță returned on board from the NATO summit.
Farmers showed a high level of interest in issues related to access to financing under the Strategic Agricultural Policy Program 2026–2030 (PSPA). In the first series of seminars on this topic, organized by the Agency for Agricultural Interventions and Payments (AIPA) and held July 8–10 in the districts of Orhei, Criuleni, Șoldănești, Rezina, Ialoveni, Teleneşti, Nisporeni, Sângerei și Ungheni, 375 agricultural producers and representatives of local authorities took part.
Moldova has implemented more than 90% of the measures planned for the first half of the year under the Republic of Moldova’s Economic Growth Plan for 2025–2027. The progress made was reviewed at a meeting of the Interdepartmental Committee on Strategic Planning, chaired by Acting Prime Minister Eugen Osmochescu.
The process of voluntary municipal mergers will conclude on July 31, and starting in August, the government will begin the process of regulatory consolidation.
The Italian state-owned postal group Poste Italiane is focusing on artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, transforming itself from a traditional postal and financial services provider into one of the key players in the national strategy for the development of cloud technologies.
A new irrigation system will be built in the village of Climeuț de Jos (Șoldănești District). Today, officials from the IFAD UCIP Joint Implementation Unit, representatives of the local administration, and a group of farmer-clients signed a contract for the construction of this facility.
In the Republic of Moldova, the number of commercial raspberry plantations of marketable varieties is increasing every year. At the same time, the area devoted to raspberry plantations of “old” varieties—which are not in demand among European consumers—is shrinking.
The National Health Insurance Company (CNAM) funded the implementation of a state-of-the-art clinical information system in the anesthesiology and intensive care units of the Institute of Emergency Medicine. The investment, amounting to nearly 2.7 million lei, was allocated from the fund for the development and modernization of state institutions. The system is fully integrated, operating smoothly, and the staff has been trained.
Members of the Moldova Fruct association presented proposals for optimizing the information system for registering seasonal (daily) workers to officials from ministries and agencies, as well as to international development partners, during the seminar “Public-Private Dialogue: Optimizing the e-Zilier System.”
The National Road Administration has announced a public tender for the development of the “Public Roads Registry” Information System—a unified digital platform for tracking Moldova’s road infrastructure.
The Republic of Moldova is involved in coordinating European efforts to strengthen transportation infrastructure and logistics routes in the Danube-Black Sea region.
A project to modernize urban infrastructure in Nisporeni, costing approximately 22.3 million lei, is getting underway. Over the next year, pedestrian areas in the Satul Nou neighborhood will be renovated, the area around the kindergarten will be landscaped, and new parking facilities will be built.
News from the NATO summit currently taking place in Ankara extends far beyond the scope of the Alliance’s activities. In addition to the now-familiar political statements and internal squabbles among the bloc’s members, there are also major economic initiatives that have the potential to reshape many existing perceptions of development in various regions.
The Agency for Agricultural Interventions and Payments (AIPA) has launched a new data standardization tool—the “Livestock Measure Conversion” (UVM) calculator. The tool is available as a new section on the agency’s official website. The purpose of the UVM is to simplify the calculation of livestock indicators in the context of implementing the Strategic Agricultural Policy Program for 2026–2030 (PSPA).
