Port of Constanta - The Container Hub at The Black Sea
Port of Constanta - The Container Hub at The Black Sea
Port of Constanta - The Container Hub at The Black Sea
Advantages
Direct services between Black
Sea and Asia
Direct transshipment
Few locks on the lower Danube
Multiple facilities for barge
traffic and operations Budapest
Constantza
Investment opportunities Belgrade
Cernavoda
7.35%
18.65%
4% 0.3%%
88.7%
thousand tons 2008 2009 evolution Cereals traffic
Transit 2,670 5,019 +87.98%
Import 421 518 +23.04%
Export 2,989 4,421 +47.91%
Cabotage 588 458 -22.11%
Total 6,670 10,418 +56.19%
Container traffic evolution 2003 - 2008
By cargo types
River transit/ Hungary share
By cargo types
Total transit Constantza Port - Hungary
Container Services on Danube
Functioning:
Present and Potential
Constantza – Giurgiu Free Zone - Domestic transit
Constantza – Belgrade – Constanta
International transit
(line designed to ship max 80TEU/barge, 10 TEU in length,
4 in row, 2 stacks high, transit time 7 days; ZIM, MSC, CMA
CGM, Maersk, Hapag Lloyd and CSCL are among the
regular users )
Advantages:
- lower fees than other seaports (Rijeka, Koper, etc.)
- Environmentally Sustainable Transport
- Potential to expand westwards to Novi Sad, Vukovar, and Budapest)
Perspectives:
COLD Project - An Assessment of the Opportunities and Risks of Container
Transport on the Danube River between Austria and the Black Sea
MARCO POLO Programme
Constantza Port –
The Container Hub at the Black Sea The Container Hub
Main container operators: CSCT, SOCEP, UMEX
• The container terminal on Pier II South
Constantza South Container Terminal -CSCT
-almost 90% of the total container traffic handled in Constanta in 2009
-current handling capacity – cca 1 mil TEU’s/year
On progress extension/ Master Plan-
Increasing the handling capacity up to 2,000,000 TEU’s/year
Terminal Characteristics
INTERMODAL TERMINAL
TERMINAL SIZE - 31 Hectares
BERTH INFORMATION
Quay Length 840 m Total
Main berth 634 m
Feeder Berth 206 m
Depth Alongside Min 14.5 Meters water depth
SHIP TO SHORE CRANES Container Terminal
Main Berth 3 x Post-Panamax Mitsubishi on Pier II S - CSCT
Gantry Cranes
2 Super Post Panamax ZPMC Cranes
Feeder Berth 2 x Mobile Harbor Cranes
APPROACH CHANNEL 16.5 meters 1.000 meters length
The Passengers Terminal
Main private investments 2009
Cement Terminal - completed Decontamination area for de-pollution equipments –
Operator: Romned Port Operator completed, International Convention OPRC 90 -
Performance = 100 tons/day Operator: ARSVOM
Storage capacity = 10,000 tons Surface = 660 sqm
Value = 6.2 million euro Value = 912,000 euro
to the future
together
Port Constanta