News about Infrastructure
The project is implemented by the Mayor’s Office with the support of Expert-Grup Center within the framework of the Local Authorities Capacity Building Program, financed by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Moldova. The financial intermediary for the bond issue will be Victoriabank, with which a corresponding agreement has already been signed.
The degree of wear and tear of Moldova’s transmission grids ranges from 70% to 90%, and the service life of many of them has already been exceeded. Approximately 8 billion lei will be invested in their rehabilitation over the next 10 years.
Northern Italy is testing RailEvo, a system that looks like an attempt to reinvent the very idea of the railroad.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA) and the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) are invited to the regional exhibition and job fair “Viitorul e AgriCOOL”, dedicated to innovation and advanced technologies in agriculture. The event will take place on May 16, on the premises of FructLine Group (Corlateeni).
At its May 13 meeting, the cabinet approved a series of regulatory amendments aimed mainly at updating and aligning bylaws with the provisions of the Electricity Law.
Taraclia district mayors warn: the current formula of merging the mayoralties ignores geographical and ethnic specificity, threatening the disappearance of 80% of the villages, local identity and service infrastructure.
Leova Mayor Alexandru Bujorian believes that the reform of local authorities did not start with the most important component – tax decentralization, and the experience of Leova cannot be automatically transferred to the villages.
The state-owned company Poșta Moldovei may be exempted from contributing 1.4 million lei to the state budget from its net profit for 2025.
About 35% of owners of mining licenses do not fulfill their obligations to reclaim land after mining activities. Some quarries remain abandoned for years – without rehabilitation and environmental control. In many cases, companies are in the process of bankruptcy, liquidation or have already ceased operations.
For weeks now, Iran’s mullahs regime has been blocking the world’s most important trade route – few tankers now pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Now Tehran also wants to charge for the use of fiber-optic cables laid in the strait, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.
Moldexpo exhibition center summed up the results of the auction for leasing six land plots. According to the company’s management, annual revenues from the new contracts will amount to 6.8 million lei.
The standards governing noise from outdoor equipment will be harmonized with those in Europe.
About 500 wines will be presented by 65 Moldovan wineries during the XXV jubilee stage of the Wine Vernissage – “Vernisajul Vinului. Our Pride”. The event will take place on May 15 in Capitoles Park.
The Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) informs about the authorization of the first payments for the measures envisaged in the Growth Plan of the Republic of Moldova. Also, other agricultural subsidies were authorized for applications reviewed between May 4 and May 8, 2026.
According to the capital’s general mayor Ion Ceban, a tender for the reconstruction of the Chisinau City Administration building has been announced.
Moldova will continue to develop energy production from biomass, but at a new level.
Repair works on the paved section of the road will be carried out by a private company Robricons SRL, which won the tender and is ready to start work in the near future.
AI company Anthropic has closed one of the largest infrastructure deals in the history of the industry, gaining access to the entire computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center. This includes more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and over 300 megawatts of computing power, a resource that was recently used to develop Ilon Musk’s rival xAI project.
The authorities urge Moldovan citizens “not to touch, move or attempt to dismantle unknown objects. In such situations, call the 112 service immediately, providing information on the exact location where the object was found”.
The U.S. Department of Defense is expanding the use of artificial intelligence in national security systems. The Pentagon has allowed a number of major technology companies, including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia, to work with classified, high-security military networks.
