Loading ...The company in charge of designing and construction of Bucharest-Danube canal will be selected at the beginning of 2010, and the works are estimated to take some four years, announced November 13 Sorin Ovidiu Cupsa, director of Navigable Canals Administration.
“Mid-year 2009, we will finalize the feasibility study and by year-end we are going to select the company in charge of the design, construction and 49-year leasing of this canal”, said Cupsa.
He stressed that canal finalization works, constructed in a proportion of 70% cent at the end of the ’80s, will exceed 500 million euros.
The project will link Bucharest to the Danube river, respectively by connecting the municipality to the Pan-European transport Corridor VII, through a navigable canal with a transport capacity of up to 20 million tons per year on Budesti – Oltenita segment, of which 16 million tons per year on Budesti – Bucharest Port – December 1 segment and four million tons per year on Budesti – Bucharest Port – Glina segment.
As well, the project will lead to the elimination of flood effects on some 30,000 hectares agricultural land and 11 localities, will ensure the necessary amounts of water for the irrigation of more than 150,000 hectares of agricultural land and for water supply of the adjacent lo calities and theproduction of some 58 GWH electrical energy per year, to which another 15 GWH per year will be added, produced by the four micro hydro stations and hydro stations to be raised on this canal.
As well, representatives of the Minister of Transport maintain that this project will secure the development of leisure activities and tourism in the zone.
According to the yard project engineer Chiriac Avadanei, if works were not halted in 1990, the project could have been finalized two years later. In the 18 years passed since the works were halted he said that much of the steel used in the existing construction was stolen, to which is added more than 120 km. of adjacent railway line and abandoned equipment on the spot.
The Danube – Bucharest Canal Project provides two navigable ways on Arges and Dambovita rivers, as well as three ports: December 1 on Arges, Glina on Dambovita and Oltenita. The project was transferred from the Ministry of Environment to the Ministry of Transport.
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