Romania aims to double the monthly transit capacity of Ukrainian grain to its port of Constanta to 4 MMT in the coming months, particularly via the Danube river, Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu said. By hiring more staff to ease the passage of vessels into the Danube’s Sulina canal and by finalizing connecting infrastructure projects, Romania could increase the transit capacity, Grindeanu said, after a meeting with representatives of the EU, U.S., Moldova and Ukraine.
Grindeanu said Romania’s Danube administration agency will have 60 captains to take ships in and out of the Sulina canal by the end of this month. An EU-funded project to make sailing possible at night on Sulina will likely be completed in October, he said.
