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Romania Maritime Navigation
After 1965 the maritime fleet grew rapidly, and modern
seaport
facilities were developed. By 1989 the commercial fleet
consisted
of 275 vessels with a total capacity of more than 5
million
deadweight tons and included 15 modern Ro-Ro ships. But
the goal of
the Eighth Five-Year Plan--a fleet capacity of 8 million
deadweight
tons by 1990--was clearly unattainable.
Constanta handled about 65 percent of marine traffic,
transloading more than 52 million tons annually during the
1980s.
A port-modernization program had been started in 1964, and
the
first Ro-Ro facility went into service in 1979. By 1988
the port
was handling more than 700,000 tons of Ro-Ro cargo
annually and was
processing containerized, pelletized, packaged, and bulk
cargoes.
Construction of a new port facility--Constanta-Sud--was
nearing
completion in the late 1980s. Located in the town of
Agigea, south
of the old port, Constanta-Sud was projected to cover some
2,000
hectares. It was designed to accommodate vessels as large
as
165,000 deadweight tons. When completed, the port was
expected to
become one of the ten largest in the world. Integrated
into the
national rail and highway systems, and with direct access
to a
major international highway, Constanta also serves as the
terminus
of the Danube-Black Sea Canal.
Sea-going ships as large as 12,000 deadweight tons are
able to
ascend the Danube as far as Galati and Braila. Mangalia,
on the
Black Sea south of Constanta, is a secondary seaport but
is the
site of the most important naval installation.
Data as of July 1989
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