Over the past decade, the Port of Constanţa has efficiently served the freight flows coming from and going to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, more exactly Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Serbia.
One of the most important projects in terms of railway traffic is represented by the development of the railway capacity in the river-maritime area of the Port of Constanţa. The project consists in the execution of a systematised railway complex in the river-maritime sector of the port of Constanţa which could deliver even services to current and future port operators. The first phase, which is the object of this project, will include works on the railway lines that offer access to current operators based on the traffic forecasts by 2020. The estimated value of the project amounts to EUR 17.6 Million.
Being an important transport hub of TRACECA Corridor, the Port of Constanţa must continue the already started projects for the purpose of consolidating the status of efficient connection in the complex chain of logistics.
The total freight traffic recorded in 2012 in the Romanian maritime ports was 50,584,662 tons, compared to 45,972,095 tons in 2011. Therefore, the traffic increase reached 10%.
In April, the management of the port of Constanţa met a team of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), consisting of specialists in the field of transport project financing. EBRD representatives were interested in the development plans of the Port of Constanţa and in the projects on the improvement of the port infrastructure.
The Port of Constanţa could develop common collaboration projects with the port of Rotterdam, the largest commercial port in Europe. The idea was emphasised within a meeting in the same month of April, between the managements of the two European ports. Discussions focused on the topics of the memorandum of understanding concluded between the Port of Constanţa and the Port of Rotterdam, on the identification of common development methods in the field of ship transport and of projects of investments in the port infrastructure. The Dutch party has shown its availability for continuing the collaboration on the development of the port of Constanţa, even for granting financial support to initiate certain projects. The colla-boration began based on the Memorandum of 2011, but until the present moment it has not had concrete results.
The Port of Constanţa is located at the crossroads of commercial routes connecting the markets of the Central and Eastern European countries, which are landlocked, to the Transcaucasia Area, Central Asia and the Far East. It is the main Romanian port and it is in the top of the first 10 European ports. The favourable geographic position and the importance of the Port of Constanţa are emphasised by the connection to two Pan-European Transport Corridors: Corridor VII – Danube (river) and Corridor IV (road and railway). The effect of the container transport performed by line services connecting the Port of Constanţa and the ports of the Far East was the transformation of the Port of Constanţa into a distribution port both for the Black Sea region and for Central and Eastern Europe.
Likewise, the distances between the ports in the Far East and the Port of Constanţa are shorter compared to the distances between them and the North Sea. It is clear that a shorter maritime route and a shorter railway one mean lower transport costs and less time.
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