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Romania Shipbuilding
After the mid-1960s, the shipbuilding program developed
rapidly, as the industry made the transition from
small-tonnage
vessels to huge bulk-cargo and special-purpose ships. By
the late
1980s, Constanta, the country's most important shipyard,
was
building 165,000-deadweight-ton ore carriers,
150,000-deadweightton oil tankers, sea-going railroad ferry ships, and
offshoredrilling platforms. Other important shipbuilding centers
were
Mangalia (site of Romania's largest naval base) and
several cities
along the Danube--Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Oltenita,
Giurgiu,
Braila, Galati, and Tulcea--that built river craft and
smaller
ocean-going ships. In 1989 the Galati shipyard launched an
8,000-
deadweight-ton roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) container
carrier--the
first of its kind built in the country.
Data as of July 1989
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