Turkey’s Privatisation Administration will launch sale tenders for two electricity distribution networks. Turkey plans the sell offs to finance a large current account gap and the sales are expected to bring in foreign direct investment.
The launch of the two new tenders, coupled with the sale of two other grids launched last week, marks acceleration in [...]

The railway transport operator CFR Calatori will organize, in June, an auction for the repairing of 50 motor carriages “Desiro Blue Arrow”, with the estimated value of the contract up to 7.24 millions euro, without TVA.
“We will make a two years contract with one economic operator, that has a maximum cantitative value of 50 units. [...]

The Finnish government says that auctioning spectrum would increase competition and make it easier for new companies to enter the market. Frequencies could also be assigned on the basis of “beauty contests” in which the winners, those considered the most promising applicants, would pay market value for operating permits.
The proposal for an auction concerns [...]

Forcing German industry and energy companies to buy permits for their greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 at auction will drive up energy prices and burden power customers, energy users’ group VIK said on Tuesday.
VIK put the possible cost to German industry of auctioning permits to emit carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas, at [...]

Bloomsbury Auctions is holding its first ever sale of Musical Instruments and related works on paper to take place in Rome on Wednesday, May 7th. The Claude Lebet collection of musical instruments, paintings, books, manuscripts and autographs related to music will be sold in our Rome saleroom.
Claude Lebet is a leading and world renowned violin-maker [...]

Austrian gas trader EconGas is to sell 250 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas for delivery from October onwards in its sixth annual internet auction, the company said on Monday.
The gas, which is equivalent to the annual requirement of 125,000 households, will be delivered at Baumgarten near the border with Slovakia, the Vienna-based company said [...]

A Triceratops skeleton failed to reach it’s reserve price at a Christie’s auction in Paris on Wednesday after a top bid of 490,000 euros (782,000 dollars).
Christie’s said it would listern to post-auction offers for the massive three-horned dinosaur specimen that was the star attraction at the paleontology auction.
The skeleton of the triceratops, which roamed the [...]

Imperial Memorabilia Auction on 28th April 2008 at the Dorotheum Vienna
Public Viewing:
from 22 April 2008
Venue:
Palais Dorotheum, Vienna 1, Dorotheergase 17
More info www.dorotheum.com/en

Antiquorum Auctioneers SA said it filed a criminal complaint in a Geneva court against its former chief executive and co-founder, Osvaldo Patrizzi, alleging that he was involved in fraudulent activities at the high-profile watch-auction house.

An auction of Russian military real estate was postponed Tuesday because of a shortage of bidders.
Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov did not set another date for the auction, Interfax reported. Serdyukov said his ministry would take over the sale of the surplus property from the Federal Property Fund.
The aim of the sale is to raise money [...]