Romania will double the capacity of its Black Sea port of Constanta and shipping lanes on the Danube in the next two months to help Ukraine with grain exports, Prime Minister Marcel Colacu said in an interview with the Financial Times.
“In 2023, Ukraine will have about 40 million tons of grain for export. To [облегчить] this, we have increased the capacity both in the port of Constanta and on the routes leading to the port of Constanta to make this happen. We mobilized as much as we could,” he said.
According to Colaku, this will allow Ukrainian grain exports to increase to 4 million tons per month. There is also investment in the Sulina Canal, he added, referring to Romania’s main deep-water shipping route through the Danube Delta.
Colaku proposed to allow ships to transit at night from October and to increase cargo traffic to 14 ships a day.
Representatives of the shipping industry in conversations with the publication called the plan to increase transit feasible. Romania will also open more road border crossings and improve its rail infrastructure at stations bordering Ukraine to speed up the transfer of goods, Colacu added.
Source: Rosbalt
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