Loading ...Romania will invest over 76 million euro, from European funds, to increase navigation safety on the Danube, by 2014, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Radu Berceanu said at a conference dubbed "Port Development. Construction of Logistic Corridor Constanta-Rotterdam" organized aboard the Dutch transportation ship HNLMS Johan de Witt in the Constanta port, northeast of Bucharest.
Berceanu said that the operational importance of priority transport Axis 18, that crosses Europe from north to south and connects the North Sea to the Black Sea, on the river, from Rotterdam to Constanta, is a priority, given the shrinking energy resources and the global effort to cut carbon emissions.
"What I'm saying is that with Romania's and Bulgaria's accession, the EU won a sea opening and that is important, if we consider the fact that the distance from Rotterdam's Port Said is three times shorter on the Danube and on the Main-Rhine corridor than on the classic route through the Gibraltar. Only 10-15 percent of the Danube's transport capacity is currently used, and Romania is making great efforts to ensure safe navigation, based on an investment plan to unfold until 2014," Berceanu said.
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