Archive for February, 2010

EC insists on introducing a new safety system in the cars

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

In the event of an accident, e-Call automatically dials the single European emergency number 112 and sends information about the location of the car to the nearest emergency service.
The European Commission has today the last call for voluntary introduction of a new safety system in cars, police BTA.

Case of new-vehicle communication technology for emergency calls from vehicles, e-Call, which, according to the committee, could save more than 2500 lives annually in the European Union.

In the event of a serious accident, e-Call automatically dials the single European emergency number 112 and sends information about the location of the car to the nearest emergency service. This can reduce by half the time needed to provide emergency aid to save the lives of people who do not know their location or are unable to communicate.

At the present stage, introducing e system still voluntary, but it does not work in any country in the European Union. Therefore, the Brussels warned that if no substantial progress in its implementation by the end of 2009, may be taken punitive measures.

The introduction of e-Call system needs full assistance to the automotive and telecommunications industries, as well as national authorities in all EU countries to provide the necessary technical resources of emergency services for call handling system.

Angela Merkel urges General Motors to identify a buyer for Opel

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is still pressure their government to General Motors (General Motors) having regretted the fact that the leadership of the U.S. automobile giant failed to elect a buyer for its unit germanskoto Opel (Opel), said on Monday, it quoted BTA .

Merkel said that the decision was “extremely necessary” for the future of Germany’s automotive company.

In an interview with Germany’s television TDE  to be broadcast later today, the Chancellor expressed his feeling that maybe there is a conflict of interest between General Motors and the countries which have a share in the European divisions of American company.

However, progress has been made, said Merkel. Despite the pressure, which german government has to support the offer made by Canadian company Magna International (Magna International), the leadership of General Motors on Friday failed to reach a unanimous decision in choosing a buyer for the Opel, which left the future of Germany company “pending,” recalls Reuters. BTA

Toyota boss clarifies the problems with the accelerator

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Akio Toyoda, president and general manager of the Japanese automobile giant Toyota, has accepted the invitation of the Committee on Government Reform and control of the House of Representatives in U.S. Congress to clarify the problem by giving defect accelerator for several car models produced by company forward AFP.

Toyoda thought initially sent to the Committee of the House of Representatives Director of America Department of Toyota Yoshimi Inaba.

But he changed his mind after he received an invitation from the committee chairman Edolfas Towns.

Hearing before the Committee will be on 24 February. It will allow U.S. members to better understand the problems with the accelerator on some models by Toyota.

Because of the defect the company was forced to recall 8.7 million cars worldwide in the autumn so far, reminds AFP.

Discussion on February 24 is titled: “Are a danger to society accelerator of Toyota.

In two other committees of Congress in connection with problems with the cars produced by Toyota, there will be two more hearings.

One will be on February 23 and will be in the Committee on Energy and commerce. Others will be on March 2 and will be held in the Committee on Trade, Science and Transportation in the Senate. BTA

Tourists rest in Sunny Beach, armed with flashlights and lighters, State ready to transfer its shares from Sunny Beach Plc to Nessebar Plc

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

State is prepared to transfer the charge of Nessebar municipality its share of joint-stock company “Sunny Beach”. Ministry of Economy has expressed its consent in writing of the ordinance this year. This was announced at a round table in the old city Lyubomir Iliev, an expert from the Ministry of Economy. Cited by BurgasInfo.com.

The state is not the sole owner of the Sunny Beach AD. It owns 75% and the remaining 25% shares are allocated to private owners. If the transfer is free of charge, this would be contested in court by shareholders.

In two hours all the countries discussed, argued, prehvarchaha sparks were heard insults and threats. Cause of a heated dispute has suspended street lighting of the resort. Sunny Beach has already tourists who walk around with lighters and flashlights.

At the beginning of the year, hotel owners refused to sign contracts with the company and the shareholders’ money to pay for maintenance because the resort fee paid to the municipality. Street power, surveillance, maintenance of green areas, etc., worth 1 million and EUR 600 thousand from the company sent an invoice to the mayor of Nessebar, but he refused to sign it.

“The municipality in this dispute is not involved, not us in conflict. What is this roundtable. Why are you wasting time?” Said Mayor Nikolay Dimitrov.

“When one company and no money is lost, shareholders earn money and pay,” said President of the Union of Owners of Elena Ivanova.

“We have no legal basis to Vadim funds assets, because the infrastructure is used by third parties,” explained Stratieva Malina, executive director of the Sunny Beach AD. Until three years ago the municipality of Nessebar is returning 70% of the company’s resort fee. Now this money has been stopped.

The account shows that 71 thousand beds of old privatized hotels, three months from the resort fee is collected 7 million and 100 thousand Stratieva According to the Mayor of Nessebar Nikolay Dimitrov is not interested in the problems of the resort. In the next example, the municipality of Sveti Vlas is transferred EUR 2,5 million for infrastructure and Sunny Beach for nothing.

Transfer procedure itself takes time, you must first decide on the board of directors of the General Assembly AD-it, and this is scheduled for June 27. At the same time, hoteliers threatened to protest the yellow pavement in Sofia.

By decision of the roundtable is not reached and the participants agreed in a narrow range to meet in the mayor’s office and lawyers for the municipality of unraveling the legal options for resolving the case. Otherwise, the tourist season will be ruined.

General Motors - China and the local state-owned company created a joint venture

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Division of the U.S. automobile giant General Motors in China and the Chinese government automakers FA Double You (FAW - First Automobile Works) have established a joint venture for production of light trucks and vans used for commercial purposes, officials said, quoted by BTA.

The company is worth 2 billion yuan (293 million dollars). General Motors stated that the initial joint venture, announced today, will use two existing plants and total capacity will exceed 100 000 vehicles.

China market is key to the growth of General Motors, which announced plans to expand its activities there despite the difficulties the U.S. market, notes AP.

The market for new cars in Japan awoke

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Japan remains the second most powerful economy in the world
 Unemployment in Japan has increased in November
 Japanese manufacturers’ confidence in the returns
 
Sales of new cars in Japan have surged for the first time in 13 months in August from a year earlier, according the latest state of the auto industry in the country.

Statistics is a new sign of improving automotive industry, said yesterday.

In January the Japanese market sold 198 265, which is 2.3% better result than a year earlier. There is interest from European companies, especially for use rent a car in Bulgaria in 2010 to some of the cheap models.

Japanese manufacturers are relieved from government measures to stimulate the weakened economy of the country.

The procedure for preparing a scheme-draft of the new terminals in Varna and Burgas

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The planned investment by the concessionaire in aeroport Bourgas is 49.6 million euros to be invested in phases by the end of 2010 Most of them should be incorporated into a new terminal at Burgas Airport
Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD announced a new tender for the Burgas airport. It is for engineering (design and construction) of an extension of the platform aeroporta the northeast in the area between MS 23 and MS 1 (zone 1) and southwest of MS 11, south of the path of a taxi (zone 2).
Engineering should be in accordance with the terms of reference and subject to the requirements of the regulations in the design and construction.
Implementation period of the contract is 12 months. The procedure is open, without prior training. The most important criterion for evaluating tenders is the price. Documents to be sold June 9, the same date shall be adopted and tenders will be opened on 11 June. The validity of tenders is 180 days.
Security for tender in the amount of 40 thousand, and the performance guarantee amount to 5 percent of the actual payable.
The contracting authority will use its own funds to make payments due under contract. Advance payment for construction is 10% of the total performance of the facility without VAT, it is obtained within 5 days after receipt of permission for construction. Interim payments of not less than 500 thousand BGN VAT are actually implemented activities.
The participant must complete and submit a statement of construction equipment, intends to use for construction, modeled on the record, including excavators, loaders, bulldozers, graders, pneumatic hammers for demolition of pavements, vehicles, rollers, betonopolagashta machine avtogudronatori , water tank installation betonosmesitelna, marking machine and others.
According to the tender dossier requiring the applicant to have a quality certificate ISO 9001:2000 and Environmental Management ISO 14001:2004. Contract performance requires full design capacity of the team leader and members of the design team in all parts of the project according chl.162, para 1 of the Spatial Planning Act and the Chamber of architects and engineers in investment design and registration Construction in the House.
During looked participant will receive a cadastre of underground communication and a copy of the approved visa for design.
Waiting on the choice of

implementation of the comprehensive development plan of the two airports, sea
in Varna and Burgas. In February this year, Fraport announced a contest for a detailed structural plan of the two aeroporta which is a concessionaire. Documents can be submitted until early April. Designer will need to prepare a feasibility study for expanded territory from the sea around each airport, which is the basis for developing the investment project. This should be done for 5 months versus 60 thousand leva
Before The competition Master plan of the two territories in late January, Fraport announced a competition for schematic design for the airports of Varna and Bourgas, which is explained as the company expanded feasibility studies. They had to be made based on concepts already finished development of the two aeroporta. From “Fraport” expected in March to choose a contractor to do the designated job for 6 months. The exact name of the contract is the provision of integrated design and engineering design services from one unit (integrated design team) and develop a scheme design for new terminals of the airport of Varna and Burgas airport. He was stopped due to a request by the bidder who has submitted to the Commission for Protection of Competition observations.
Even when the tender was clear that the very announcement of Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD, Varna Airport, announced a competition for the schematic design of new terminals at the airports of Varna and Burgas.
Participants in the contest is expected to provide design and engineering services through a separate design team and prepare a schematic design for new terminals of the airport of Varna and Burgas airport is written in the notice.
According to lawyers from the Department of Public Procurement “in Fraport has uncertainties in terms of the assignment. According to the clarification of an expert from the concessionaire company expecting to receive information and schematic design. But this concept in the Bulgarian legislation does not exist and none of the experts could not give him accurate translation. Advanced feasibility studies should be made on the basis of existing concepts to be presented to design, to carry out feasibility studies related to geodesy, geology, environmental analysis and others. But these studies will be part of an investment project, but supporting materials for the benefit of the concessionaire to provide for future investments. Among the architects even then suspected that the overall design of the two airports, sea became the object of the contract (for 1.5 million euros excluding VAT) for this with unexplained nature. At precisely this reason the procedure is being appealed by the company purchased the tender documents. Reasons are:
-> Non-legislative framework in Bulgaria (Law on Spatial Planning, Regulation 4, the Law on Public Procurement)
-> Errors and technical inaccuracies in the tender documents
-> Language and grammatical errors.

The first tender for the design of new passenger terminals
the two airports was announced last year. He was also suspended. If any contest using the scheme of maneuver will slowly lead to tendering for the remaining pre-announcements, which appeared in the electronic site of the Government Gazette last year. They are construction supervision on construction of a new passenger terminal at Varna airport, as well as: conceptual design to improve power system, preliminary design, detailed engineering for improvement of power system, a project for engineering a system for emergency power, conceptual design fire building, technical design, detailed engineering building on fire aeroporta. Announcements were also technical project detail engineering of a new passenger terminal and construction supervision of building a new passenger terminal at Bourgas Airport.
The planned investment by the concessionaire in aeroport Bourgas is 49.6 million euros to be invested in phases by the end of 2009 most of them should be invested in a new terminal at Bourgas Airport. So far, predictions are made from only the expansion and modernization of the airport of Burgas, for which the concessionaire receives a certificate of first class investment in October 2007
Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD won the 35-year concession for the civil airports of Varna and Burgas, the contract was signed on September 10, 2006 the State received a single concession fee of 3 million. Annual concessionaire is obliged to submit to the state fund for 19.2 percent of the proceeds from their activities.
Company Fraport Twin Star Airport Management was founded in August 2006.

Hyundai and Ford won the race for the United States lizzie

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Sales of new cars in the United States erupted in August, backed by a government program already suspended “lizzie against Money” worth $ 3 billion, Reuters reported.

The most profitable producer of the scheme proved to be Ford (Ford Motor) and Hyundai (Hyundai), but the new General Motors (General Motors) has been a failure in this regard.

Ford announced yesterday that sales in August jumped by 17 percent. In this connection, the company announced the introduction of a third shift at its plant in Dearborn and Kansas City to meet the strong demand for Ford F-150 and Escape.

Since Hyundai does have announced colossal 47-percent increase in monthly sales, such as the Elantra model (Elantra) doubled. Honda (Honda) also reported a sales increase of 10%, and Toyota (Toyota Motor) - 6%.

However, the U.S. government rescued from General Motors and Chrysler (Chrysler) have lost market share. General Motors sales have tumbled by 20% in August, and Chrysler - with 15 percent. When Nissan (Nissan) crash at the rate of 3%.

General Motors sales in China in August, however, nearly doubled. Since the beginning of the year the company realized the Chinese market 1.11 million cars, only in the eighth month sold 152 365 number of vehicles. Expected by year-end sales of this market to soar by 40%.

The U.S. program to encourage car sales “lizzie against Money” was inspired by the schemes launched in France, Germany and Britain after it became clear that they were extremely successful and popular. Scheme in the United States were made more than 690 000 new cars.

Meanwhile, statistics indicate that avtoprodazhbite in France, Italy and Spain are also gaining momentum. Paris recorded sustained growth of 7 per cent in August, and Rome - 9%. Today is expected AUTOMARKET data in Germany.

Northern neighbor the United States - Canada - however recorded a decline in sales of new cars for ten consecutive months.

Italy has invested 450 million euros in Fiat’s factory in Sicily

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Italy is preparing to invest 450 million euros for restructuring of Fiat car plant in Sicily (Fiat SpA Termini Imerese), said the industry minister Claudio Skahola on Wednesday said.

Fiat wants to close loss-working company, which currently has 1400 employees in 2011

The Italian company is ready to expand its production in other Italian cities, even planned transfer of production models Panda in Poland.

Ministirat said there are 14 proposals for the transformation of the plant and it will support those who come from the automotive sector.

Moreover, it became clear that it will be able to use available public funds to improve infrastructure of the enterprise.

Fiat announced that it will cost between with between 800 and 1000 euros more per unit of production due to weak infrastructure in Termini Imerese.

Patent war threatens entering the third generation Prius in the U.S.

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

World leader in automotive manufacturing - Toyota (Toyota) - was involved in a scandal with illegal use of patents, Bloomberg reported.

This seriously jeopardizes the importation of hybrid Prius (Prius) in the U.S., which mainly rely on the company to increase sales and stabilize finances.

As early as in 2005 Paice LLC won a case against Toyota. The Japanese were accused of illegally using a patent similar to that of the plaintiff to produce a hybrid car and sports model Lexus (Lexus) RX400h. Paice now attacking the third-generation Prius, and two models of the Lexus.

Committee of Washington will consider the claims and, if agreed to investigate the case, the procedure will Traun 15 months. In the affirmative response in favor of the plaintiff will be foreclosure of the products, which are believed to violate fair trade practice.

To have better chances to win the case, Paice is trying to demonstrate to the committee that the loan market share and has a lot to protect itself against “unfair competition” of Toyota. The company allegedly made significant investments and has committed distributors and suppliers of parts. Moreover, huge sums have been invested in research, development and licensing.

Toyota Prius earn the U.S. market in 2000. Since then the company has sold more than 1.1 million units. T

Reto generation of hybrids, which became a victim of judicial attack, traveling about 50 miles per gallon of gasoline. With these parameters and, if admitted to the Prius in the U.S. market will be the most economical car that is available in the country of unlimited possibilities.