News about Infrastructure
The Chisinau City Hall reports that 31 August 1989 Street, Alexandru Chel Bun Street, and Tigina Street—three major thoroughfares in the center of the capital—have undergone major repairs as part of the “Chisinau—City Roads” project.
More than half of the municipalities have made final decisions on voluntary mergers, and the overwhelming majority have initiated such a process.
The village administration of Telitsa in the Anenii Noi district has announced a new tender for the development of a technical design for the opening and operation of a quarry to extract clay. The clay is intended for use in the construction and restoration of protective embankments along the Dniester River. The previous tender, announced on August 3, did not take place.
In the tender conducted by the Ministry of Energy for the construction of onshore wind farms with a total capacity of 170 MW, seven projects were selected as the winners.
A Romanian student received a European grant of 60,000 euros to modernize the public transportation system in the Republic of Moldova.
Installation of a centralized medical gas supply system has been completed in the operating suite at the Institute of Oncology. It will provide the operating rooms with the necessary gases and technical conditions for performing surgical procedures.
The government today presented the mayors of voluntarily merging northern municipalities with the administrative framework for Financial Incentive No. 2. The funds will be allocated for infrastructure development.
The Swedish company VIM Energy Systems has signed a contract worth approximately 190 million Swedish kronor (about 17.25 million euros) for the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of a large-scale battery energy storage system park in Bălți, the Republic of Moldova.
In the media in Ukraine and Moldova, the discount on the base rate for the transit of Ukrainian cargo via the Moldovan railway is presented as 50%. It is quite possible that the actual discount is different.
The state-owned enterprise “Moldovan Railways” (CFM) has published its financial statements, which show that the company returned to profitability in the first half of 2026, following multimillion losses in previous years.
A new technology and innovation center—Moldova HiTech Park—may be built in Steaua, where companies in the fields of technology, research, and digital services will operate. The project will create the conditions to attract investments estimated at approximately 600 million euros.
Mircea cel Bătrân Boulevard will be widened and renovated, which will transform the entire Ciocana neighborhood.
It will be a new boulevard with six lanes of traffic.
The origin of goods should not be a criterion for preferential treatment, including discounts on the base rate or priority in the queue for services provided by the rail carrier. If a Moldovan exporter guarantees the same volume and frequency of cargo shipments, it should be able to benefit from service conditions comparable to those enjoyed by Ukrainian customers of the state-owned enterprise “Moldovan Railways.”
Moldova’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development states that only the tariff for transit rail shipments from Ukraine will be reduced by 50% by the end of 2026. The potential volume of such freight traffic is approximately 600,000 metric tons.
Economist Veaceslav Ioniță believes that a 50 percent reduction in rail freight rates for Ukrainian cargo presents an opportunity to restructure the state-owned enterprise “Moldovan Railways” (CFM).
The “Forța Fermierilor” Association of Grain and Oilseed Producers and Processors is demanding “transparency and comprehensive explanations regarding the transit of agricultural products from Ukraine.”
The SI RERE national municipal network monitoring system went live this week, ensuring that the city’s utilities are protected. The Agency for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre reported this, noting the modernization of municipal infrastructure management.
On Wednesday, the Romanian government announced that it would begin shutting down its only nuclear power plant on Thursday after water levels in the Danube fell to a record low this week and attempts to prevent a complete shutdown failed. This will be the first shutdown of the plant since the drought of 2003.
The government intends to expropriate a private plot of land measuring 0.6 hectares, located outside the village of Giurgiulești in the Cahul district, to expand the Giurgiulești International Free Port.
The Turkish company ONUR Taahhüt Taşımacılık İnşaat Ticaret ve Sanayi A.Ş. submitted the most economically advantageous bid and is expected to be awarded the contract to build the bypass road in Cimislia However, the company has a controversial reputation: in May 2026, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) imposed sanctions on ONUR and 53 of its subsidiaries for collusion during a tender in Ukraine.
