At its recent annual award ceremony in London, Air Cargo News, one of the largest international cargo agencies, Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport has received this year’s accolade, dubbed the Oscars of the aviation industry, in the ‘Cargo Hub of the Year’ category. Cargo received huge recognition at the prestigious Air Cargo News Awards 2022, […]
Budapest Nyugati [‘Western’] Railway Station has been selected as part the ‘Treasures of European Film Culture’, the European Film Academy has announced. Treasures of European Film Culture is a growing list of places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now but […]
Both the number of Hungarians infected with the new coronavirus and that of those dying as a result of this infection are increasing, according to a summary published by the related government website koronavirus.gov.hu about the past seven days. In the past week, 48 people died, mostly elderly and chronically ill – six more than […]
Following the example of a tree planting two years ago, the Swiss-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce (Swisscham Hungary) came up with the idea of another green project: an insect hotel in Népliget park in Budapest in order to provide these small creatures with a safe, reliable place to survive bad weather, find food or even build […]
The Hungarian Drone Coalition, in cooperation with HungaroControl and the Neumann Technology Platform, hosts the 4th Drone Summit and Expo at the Hungexpo fairgrounds in the Hungarian capital. The presentations at the conference aimed, among other things, to raise awareness of the importance– and to highlight the indispensable role – of technological developments in the […]
Tatabánya-based Motor-Classic Plc., a manufacturer of precision metal parts and restoration of veteran cars, is expanding its plant with a new production hall and a modern machining center. According to marketing director Viktor Tamás, the company is expanding its 5,000-square-meter production area with a new 2,000-square-meter hall, which will house a five-axis machining machine and […]
Hungarian artist Tamás Dezső's exhibition ‘Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf', exploring the connections between the living world and man, will be on view at the Capa Center in Budapest from September 22 to December 23. The series, which explores the complex relationships of the living world, was inspired by the artist's philosophical studies and is seen […]
The e-commerce market in Hungary is growing dynamically, with turnover in 2021 reaching more than HUF 1,200 billion, up 32 percentage points in the past year, according to a representative Payment Experience Report, supported by Mastercard, which was published in a statement on Monday. Mastercard's marketing manager in Hungary, Péter Mondovics, said in the statement […]
Bread prices in the EU rose by an average of 18% on an annual basis in August this year, significantly up on the 2.7% increase recorded in the same period in 2021 compared to the same period the year before, the business news site napi.hu reports based on information from Eurostat. Hungary is the absolute […]
Alteo and Shell are launching a joint nationwide residential used cooking oil collection program in Hungary. According to a press release sent to the state news MTI on Monday, the cooperation between energy service provider and trader Alteo, Shell Hungary Zrt. and Biotrans Ltd. is a good example of the practical implementation of the circular […]
"The situation of Dunaferr has become untenable", and after the closure of one blast furnace weeks ago, the steel works were forced, on September 16, to close down the other one, which, according to the company, "could have fatal consequences for one of the largest Hungarian industrial companies." The immediate reason for the shutdown, they […]
The first phase of the planned major shutdown of the Danube Refinery in Százhalombatta, south of Budapest, has been completed, Mol has kept to schedule and restarted all plants, thus producing fuel at full capacity again, the company said in a statement. The second phase of maintenance is scheduled to start on October 9. It […]
The European Commission, the quasi-government of the European Union, calls for an estimated EUR 7.5 billion in EU funding to be withheld from Hungary over corruption concerns that the Hungarian government failed to dispel. Referring to EC President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address earlier this week, EC Commissioner Johannes Hahn, in […]
The stock index of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE), the BUX, closed at 40,057.18 points on Friday, down 2.09% at 853.63 points compared to last week, the state news agency MTI reported on Sunday morning along with a brief analysis. The total turnover was HUF 53.809 billion, compared to HUF 33.255 billion the previous week, […]
Members of the diplomatic community in Hungary, Mexicans living in the country and other guests gathered at the residence of the Mexican Ambassador in the Buda Hills in the Hungarian capital this Saturday afternoon to celebrate Mexico's national day at the invitation of Ambassador Rosario Molinero. It was 212 years ago, on September 16, 1810 […]
