With the summer season over, passenger traffic at Ferenc Liszt International Airport is slowly decreasing, according to the latest bulletin published this Thursday by the airport's management company Budapest Airport. Although the monthly passenger number remained above one million in October, traffic compared to 2019 fell from 80-82% in the summer months to 79%. In […]
In September 2022, the volume of export was 14% and that of import was 10% higher than in the same period of the previous year. The deficit was EUR 745 million, the balance deteriorating by EUR 663 million year-on-year, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office reports. In September 2022, the value of export amounted to EUR […]
This year, the Santa Claus Factory has opened its doors again. This year, pre-Christmas donations are welcome at the Városháza ['City Hall'] Park in the center of Budapest. Collection points will be opened not only in the capital, but also in several cities across the country. The donations will be distributed to disadvantaged families by […]
Veolia Group member CHP-Invest Kft. and Újpalotai Energia Ltd. have signed a HUF 10 billion contract with Finnish company Valmet to renovate the boilers of the Vértes Power Plant, in Oroszlány, W Hungary, the company developing the power plant, Veolia, told the state news agency MTI. According to the company, the modernization of the boilers […]
Industrial producer prices rose by 41.7% on average in October 2022 compared to one year earlier. Domestic output prices were 67.7% and non-domestic output prices 28.4% higher, the Central Statistical Office reports. The faster growth in domestic output prices was due to the fact that the share of the energy industry, which has seen significant […]
With the exception of the number of new infections, all indicators of the new coronavirus epidemic have improved in Hungary in the past week, according to the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu. 42 victims of the coronavirus have been reported in the past week, bringing the official total number of Hungarians who have died in the […]
Duna House Group closed the third quarter (Q3) 2022 with 120% year-on-year growth in revenues to HUF 8.4 billion and 60% increase in EBITDA to HUF 904 million, the Group has announced on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange. Following the strong results of Q2 2022, the Group`s core profit lines have declined from […]
Traditional oil and gas production will remain Mol's main profile in Algyő, SE Hungary, for a long time to come, but the company is exploring the possibility of installing renewable energy sources, László Kardos, head of the company's Algyő production region, told reporters on site. A ten-year forecast has been prepared. It is reviewed every […]
JYSK's sales revenue in Hungary increased by 19% to HUF 67.6 billion in the financial year from September 2021 to August 2022, while its EBIT for the whole company amounted to HUF 12.49 billion, an increase of 0.4%, the home furnishing chain informed the state news agency MTI on Tuesday. The turnover of the trading […]
The National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) and the Hungarian Communications Association (MKSZ) have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of the electronic communications profession and for raising consumer awareness in this country. According to a statement sent to MTI on Tuesday by the NMHH Communications Directorate, the joint work will focus on conducting […]
Mahart Container Center (MCC), one of Hungary’s leading container terminal operators, has leased a new, 30,000 sqm operational area at the Hungarian capital's Ferenc Liszt International Airport from September, which the tenant is using for storing shipping containers, according to a statement by the airport management company Budapest Airport. The major advantage of the site […]
20% of petrol stations operated by the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, basically the only supplier of petrol in the country due to the capped price situation, have been reported to experience partial stock shortages in recent days. Stations in the capital and in the countryside were found to be out of 95-grade petrol […]
In October 2022, 7,361 children were born and 10,808 people died according to preliminary data published by the Central Statistical Office this Monday. In the last twelve months, i.e. between November 2021 and October 2022, the number of births diminished by 3.9%, that of deaths by 8.3% and the number of marriages by 6.4% compared […]
Olympic, world and European water polo champion Gábor Csapó has died at the age of seventy-two. He was hospitalized in early November for respiratory failure and was kept under deep anesthesia on a ventilator. "We have lost another legend, who was not only an outstanding player in the teams he played for, but who also […]
A silver fir tree, about 18 meters tall, had its ornamental lights switched on at Kossuth Square in front of the Parliament on the first Sunday of advent. The pine tree is adorned with a 130-centimeter-high, 103-centimeter-wide, 36-centimeter-deep, three-dimensional-effect, 25-kilogram, eight-pointed star-shaped top ornament, lit by warm white light and energy-saving LED lights. The country's […]
