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Overview

Romania’s port infrastructure, particularly along the Black Sea and the Danube River, plays a pivotal role in regional trade, logistics, and strategic connectivity. 

Constanta Port

Romania’s Constanta Port is managed by the National Company of Maritime Ports Administration in Constanta. It is the largest port in the Black Sea and the seventh busiest port in the EU, connecting Europe with the Caspian Region, Central Asia, the Mediterranean Sea, the Middle East, and the Far East. The port is also a strategic transit node for the landlocked countries in Central and South-East Europe. It has connections with all modes of transport: direct access by car and trains with connections to Bucharest and the national road and rail infrastructures, direct connections with the national oil and gas pipeline network, and direct connections with inland waterways, including the Danube through the Danube-Black Sea Canal. The port is part of the Rhine-Main-Danube Rivers Corridor. The financing of upgrades to the modernization and development of the Port is under the purview of the Ministry of Transport & Infrastructure, as well as from EU development funds. 

Challenges and Opportunities

According to the Ministry of Transport & Infrastructure’s “2024 Strategy for the Development of Naval Transport of Romania,” the development of naval and intermodal transport in Romania aims to capitalize on the potential offered by the Danube River and to transform the Port of Constanța into a regional leader on the Black Sea. Focus has been placed on modernizing and increasing the operational capacity of the port, particularly in loading/unloading and storage of goods.

Constanta Port has a potential operational capacity of more than 100 million tons/year. Main types of cargo that were handled at Constanta Port includer grains, oil seeds, crude oil, oil products, natural and chemical fertilizers, iron ore, scrap, and solid mineral fuels. Since 2022, Constanta has become the primary maritime port for Ukrainian cargo, due to the ongoing military conflict.

In 2024, new investment opportunities were launched in Constanta Port through the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility for the development of strategic projects, such as:

  • Ensuring electrical conditions for connecting ships to the quay in Constanta Port (Cold Ironing regime)” to interconnect to the Trans-European Transport Network
  • Poti, Georgia – Constanta, Romania” Container & RORO Lines add new maritime connections with Georgia, especially because of the conflict in Ukraine for the reconfiguration of the corridors between Southeast Europe and the Caspian Sea
  • Karasu, Turkey – Constanta, Romania” Connection Line because Karasu and Constanta Terminals are strategically located near important highways and industrial centers in both cities avoiding the passing through Bosphorus – Dardanelles Straits 

Best Prospects for U.S. Suppliers 

In addition to the above opportunities for the strategic development of Constanta Port, the Best Prospects for the U.S. Suppliers of Smart Port Infrastructures Technologies in Romania have been launched within the “Three Seas Initiative” (3SI or TSI), known also as the Baltic, Adriatic, Black Sea (BABS) Initiative. It is a forum of 13 EU states including Ukraine, running along a north–south axis from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic and Black Seas in Central & Southeast Europe. 3SI Projects for Constanta Port’s development are:

  • Via Carpatia – transport corridor from the Northern part of Europe to the South through the Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Republic of Bulgaria, and Hellenic Republic (Greece).
  • FAIRway Danube – next step towards Good Navigation Status on the Danube to elaborate coordinated actions at national level for the development of a Master Plan for the Rehabilitation and Maintenance of the Danube River – Black Sea Canal
  • Rail-2-Sea – modernization and development of a Railway Corridor between Poland’s Gdansk Port at the Baltic Sea & Romania’s Constanta Port at the Black Sea

Contact Information

More information about Romanian Port Infrastructure is published on the websites of the institutions below:

Ministry of Transports & Infrastructure
Romania’s National Company of Maritime Ports Administration in Constanta

Contact: 
Gabriel Popescu, Commercial Specialist  
Gabriel.Popescu@trade.gov

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