EU Strategy for the Danube region
Wien-Bratislava, 19.-21. April 2010
Dipl. - Ing. Alexandru Capatu
Port of Constanta A World Class Maritime
Port
The Port of Constanta has a major
importance in the Black Sea area,
being located at the crossroads of
the trade routes linking the markets
of the landlocked countries from
Central and Eastern Europe with the
Transcaucasus, Central Asia and the
Far East.
Largest and deepest port in the Black Sea
Port of Constanta A World Class Maritime
Port
Characteristics:
•Total surface: 3,926 ha
•156 berths (out of which 140 operational berths)
•Quay length - almost 30 km
•Length of breakwaters (north+south) – 14 km
•Total handling capacity – over
120 million
tons/year
•Natural water depths between 8 and 19 m
•Safe port
•Port complying with the ISPS Code and the EU
security regulation in force
•Friendly environmentally management
•Free port status starting with January 2007
Largest and deepest port in the Black
Sea
MPA ongoing projects
Extension by 1,050 m of North Breakwater
Objectives:
-improve operations conditions in the port basins, by reducing waves stirring;
-increase navigation safety;
-protect arrangements and infrastructure of the port peers/births.
MPA ongoing projects
Road bridge over Danube-Black Sea Canal 0+540
Objectives:
-better access: connection of the South area of the port with national roads network;
-connection with Bucharest – Constanta highway through a by-pass financed by EBRD;
-increase navigation safety.
MPA ongoing projects
Development of the railway capacity in the river-maritime area of Constanta Port
Objectives:
-improvement of railways operations in the river-maritime area by building a systematized
railway complex;
-more railways lines in order to fulfill the necessity of the operators forecasted until 2020.
Future MPA projects
Bridge over the connection canal
in the river-maritime area
Development of quays and
reclaim land on the Artificial
Island
Development of river
– maritime area
Construction of Pier IIIS
infrastructure
Port Operator News
Bulk Terminal
COMVEX is the main ore and coal operator .
•13 berths, water depths up to 19 m
• Direct transshipment from sea-going vessels to barges
• Storage capacity: 3.5 milion tons
• Handling capacity: 22 milion tons /year
Until 2011 - more than 30 million euro in facilities which
allows an increase in operational capacity with 33-40%,
representing 60,000 tons/day, leading to a volume of
almost 40 million tons per year.
Port Operator News
Ship characteristics
- type: bulk carrier
- flag: Liberia
- no. of holds:9
- capacity:149,498 dwt
- length over all: 270.35 m
- beam(wide): 43 m
- max. summer draft: 17.33m
COMVEX Success Story – M/V GRAND OCEAN
- total cargo on board to be
discharged: 144,466.54 mt
- cargo: South African steam coal
- loading port:
Richards Bay - South Africa
- arrival draft: 17.19 m
- discharge commenced date/time: 16 November 2009 09:00 hrs local time
- discharge completed date/time:18 November 2009 05:45 hrs local time
- discharge equipments used: 3 ship unloaders * 50 tf each
- effective time used for discharge: 1.84375 days ; 1 day 20 hours 15 minutes
- average discharge rate mt/24 hrs : 78,354.74 mt/24 hrs
Port Operator News
Container Terminal on Pier 2S – Stage 3
- Increasing the handling capacity up to 2,000,000 TEU`s/year in the next two years
- The project will be completed by the present operator CSCT-DP World, from its
own sources.
Port Operator News
Floating Oil Terminal at Midia Port
Operator: RomPetrol
8.6 km offshore location
Capacity : 24 mil. tons/year
Terminal can accommodate ships up to 165.000
dwt
Investment : 175 mil. Dollars
Midia Marine Terminal has finalized building
two new berths, one for maritime and the
other one for inland vessel to transit oil
products.
Octogon Gas & Logistics is building a new GPL
terminal. It will be the most modern terminal
at the Black Sea with storage capacity of 4.000
cubic meter, having delivery possibilities to
trucks, railways and inland vessels.
Port Operator News
UMEX S.A.
• Established in 1978
• ISO 9001:2000 certified by Germanischer
Lloyd
•Location: Constanta port, berths 38, 39, 40
and 44
UMEX S.A. is the only operator at Constatza
port
able and specialized to handle out of gauge
and heavy
Industrial equipement
Port Operator News
Cereal Terminal
Operator: United Shipping
Agency
Capacity per hour : 2.600to/hour
Storage capacity: 214.000 to
(17 silos of 12.000 tons each and
2 silos x 5.000 tons each)
Investment: 25 mil. Euros
Port Operator News
The new Passenger Terminal has
an operation capacity of 100,000
passengers/year, being the most
recent investment able to increase
the activity on the Romanian
seaside.
The existing mooring length is
293 m, the quay depth is 13.5 m,
ensuring the mooring of big
vessels, with drafts up to 10-11 m.
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Inland navigation relieves road and rail
Biggest transport
capacities: a push tow of
3.700 to equates 93
wagons or 148 trucks
(platoon of 10 km!)
© via donau
Inland navigation – economic and eco-friendly
Transportation
distance for one
ton of goods using
the same amount
of energy
© via donau
Inland navigation – lowest external costs
Inland
navigation
causes the least
accident, noise,
pollution and
climatic costs
© via donau
Expenses of the different transport
modes in the Danube cooridors
The Danube requires
the least investments
in the infrastructure
in comparison to road
and rail
© via donau
Constanta as River Port
Port of Constanta has a important role in the
development of inland transport, due to its connection
to the Black Sea – Danube Canal
The 64.4 km long and 90 m wide canal has a water
depth of 7 m and 17,5 m clearance under the bridges
The river traffic registered in Constanta Port in 2008 was
more than 11 million tons, especially coal, ore, cereals
and steel products.
In 2009 the river traffic was 7,9 million tons.
Why Constanta?
The Port of Constanta
offers a 3,400 km
shorter transport
alternative for the cargo
coming from: Middle
and Far East, India, East
Africa and Australia
through the Suez Canal
and having as
destination the Central
European countries.
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Dipl.-Ing Alexandru Capatu
capatu@navromsaag.at
Tel: +43 1 7296700
Fax: +43 1 7296701
Cell:+ 43 6643025874