Get quality reporting directly into your inbox Seven months after Serbian and Romanian businessmen from the Swiss company Mineco AG tried to bribe a Romanian judge to win control over about US$1 billion in copper reserves it became clear that this battle was far from over was detained at -Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest Romanian authorities said the man was carrying classified geological maps of these reserves in the Moldova Nouă area of Romania Reporters for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have identified the geologist as Mikhail Orlov (P4) who has visited Bucharest several times in the past year His lawyer say he was eventually allowed to leave Romania but remains under investigation Uchalinskiy Gok is part of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) group which is controlled by the Russian oligarch one of the biggest players in the non-ferrous metal industry in the former Soviet Union Abdrakhmanov is now a deputy of the Republic of Bashkiria and a member of United Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin's political party Two days before his arrest, Orlov had visited Ipromin SA, a Romanian mining institute, where he received a series of geological maps. The Romanian Secret Service say the maps contained data about the copper deposits near Moldova Nouă, and several were classified those charges were dropped and now the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) is investigating them for corruption told OCCRP that the whole issue was just a misunderstanding “Mineco won the bid for the mine in Moldova Noua The Suvorov mining site is near that mine,” Abdrahkmanov explained So Romanian law enforcement decided that the documentation received by Orlov from Ipromin was wrong (because) it referred only to the Suvorov mine.” Orlov was neither formally arrested nor detained “During the investigation he lived in a hotel,” he said Abdrahkmanov further said that he himself “had no problems and have never been interrogated.” He said Orlov has no further obligations to Romanian law enforcement “The contract between Ipromin and Mineco is still not signed because judicial problems are not resolved yet Mineco still has to arrange everything with the Romanian side.” denies giving Orlov classified information saying Orlov was introduced to him as a Mineco representative and was entitled to the maps as Mineco had the mining rights for the Moldova Nouă site the Mineco representative now sentenced to jail for corruption) introduced Orlov to me” at the Mineco office in Bucharest “So he came to me via the owner of the mining license.. I did not give the documents to someone in the street," said Berchimis to OCCRP That license was transferred to Mineco in January 2012 and signed by Alexandru Pătruti the former president of the Romanian National Agency for Mineral Resources just a few months before in October of 2011 the Romanian government had begun to challenge Mineco in court over the privatization Pătruți first said he did not remember the contract and when told his signature was on the contract the person in charge of Moldomin's current bankruptcy procedures and privatization also did not return emails or calls about the licensing process Mineco headquarters in the World Trade Center building in Bucharest was one of the favourite meeting places for company representative and Russian experts Romanian National Agency for Mineral Resources confirmed to reporters the transfer of the license to Mineco for free claiming that the operation took place with the prior approval of Moldomin and Mineco Orlov’s visit wasn’t the first for Russian mining experts as claimants vie for the valuable copper ore controlled by Moldomin Just a few days before Christmas in 2011, local officials in Moldova Nouă hosted an important visit. Mineco brought a very important delegation of Russian experts, led by Abdrakhmanov welcomed the delegation and took the Russians on a tour to the inactive mining site took group photographs in front of Moldomin's headquarters By that time, Romanian officials were suspicious about the deals and some in the delegation were already being monitored by the Romanian secret service They stayed under surveillance for almost three months Rus and Chisărău were charged with conspiring to buy the influence of a Romanian judge based on that surveillance Abdrakhmanov told OCCRP that Makhmuduv has nothing to do with the Moldomin business: “Makhmudov and Uchalinsky GOK have no connection to this case The contract was between Mineco and me personally as a citizen of Russia I signed the contract with Mineco after I retired from Uchalinsky GOK.” Support from readers like you helps OCCRP expose organized crime and corruption around the world you’ll be directly supporting investigative journalism as a public good You’ll also gain access to exclusive insights and benefits Our journey around Enel Green Power’s sustainable power facilities continues At the wind farm in Moldova Nouă a series of initiatives are educating the younger generations and protecting animal and plant species This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Moldova — Victor Besleaga remembers well the start of the war that killed his brother It was dark when Russian troops surrounded the station in Dubăsari a 20-minute drive from the border with Ukraine leaving one of the soldiers dead; to save their own lives the police soon gave up their arms and surrendered Victor remembers being transported to Tiraspol the self-proclaimed capital of Transnistria and paraded before cameras broadcasting back to Russia had become a "Romanian Nazi infiltrator."  He spent the next month gasping for air in a tiny basement cell He went straight to the hospital — and from there rejoined the police and fought to retake the city he served in gray-blue eyes and wearing a black Champion tracksuit speaking in the classroom he attended as a child now a local history museum run by his wife It is a 15-minute drive (and a Russian military checkpoint away) from the city where he once worked as a cop where 10 people died in the conflict that began in the darkness of March 2 Five of the deceased were combatants who fought to keep it part of Moldova But today the village is an isolated enclave surrounded by a hostile entity The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin insists the residents of Transnistria There have been claimed terrorist incidents there located to the east of the Dniester river all the way to the border with Ukraine while Moldova's central government in Chișinău The negotiations that ended the 1992 conflict resulted in oddities like this community of just over 2,100 people being engulfed by a separatist region and divided from the rest of the country by a wide river The only way to reach the village directly by road requires driving through a hostile entity where as many as 1,500 Russian soldiers operate alongside Transnistrian forces as "peacekeepers" — and where some 300,000 people have forged a separate national identity a generation now having been falsely taught that their erstwhile neighbors tried to carry out a genocide of Russian speakers For those unwilling or unable to pass through the separatist region — where oligarchs backed by free-flowing Russian gas control the politics and where authorities maintain a blacklist of personas non grata — there is a ferry free of charge and capable of carrying both people and cars But the ferry does not operate if it is too windy or when the river has frozen as typically happens a couple weeks a year Transnistria closed its borders altogether to arrest the spread of COVID-19 eliminating that travel option for more than a year The village itself hosts Russian and Transnistrian forces who greet visitors as they get off the ferry and an old but regularly maintained BTR-70 armored personnel carrier from Russia an indignity — foreign usurpers on land that was mutually agreed to be Moldova — that some now find intolerable "The feelings about the Russian peacekeepers were always negative because they are staying illegally in the village," Victor said the relationship between locals and peacekeepers became even worse." one that was over before the outside world knew what had happened But Victor believes the recent explosions in Transnistria are the work of Russian military intelligence designed to justify Moscow intervening further there and expanding a foothold that could be used to threaten not just Moldova but states in the Balkans some of which are part of the NATO alliance Military experts generally don't think much of the forces currently stationed in the breakaway republic Their equipment largely consists of museum pieces even if the raw numbers — a combined Russian and Transnistrian force of perhaps 10,000 men — are more than twice the size of Moldova's army locals say they can hear regular combat training even if the current rumblings from Transnistria do not culminate in all-out combat could exploit Moldova's desire to avoid an existential war with Russia by consolidating control over its side of the river without much of a fight providing a feel-good victory for "Russian speakers" that the Kremlin could trumpet back home The last military conflict in Moldova broke apart the country family and friends suddenly finding themselves on different sides of a new de facto border and consuming wildly different narratives about what had just happened.  Now the conflict in Ukraine and Russia's plans for the region are fraying relations within the same communities "war is dividing families and friends," Victor said And people think what's happening in Ukraine could change their lives here again "It's already destroyed relationships," Alexandra Besleaga Victor's wife and the director of the local history museum said over instant coffee and a smorgasbord of sweets imported from Ukraine wearing a light blue hoodie and gold hoop earrings Relations with in-laws are tenuous in the best of times But now Alexandra and Victor say they hardly ever talk to the parents of their daughter's husband leaving an older population who are "victims of propaganda," she argued Some are nostalgic for the time of the Soviet Union "mainly because people were young and healthy real problems were hidden by the regime and there was no border between Moldova and Transnistria." But the rose-colored sentimentality is exploited by a geopolitical agenda found on television and in online news Moscow portrayed as a besieged defender of the Orthodox faith and the traditional family in the face of constant attacks from a decadent Europe "Russia is protecting Eastern Europe from LGBT communities in the West there are families in which children who are living abroad tell their parents that life in Western Europe is much better," she added The local gossip is that some have already stocked up on rubles But even as they say they are used to Transnistria and its Russian backers making noise and causing problems Victor said he would stay and take up arms again — if the government gave him any she worries he'll be targeted before any conflict even begins She loves living in the same village as her mother "except when you start talking about politics." Have a news tip? Email this reporter: cdavis@insider.com By continuing to browse this website, or closing this message, you agree to our use of cookies Enel Green Power managed to build 3.1GW of new renewable capacity globally last year a record for the company that exceeded 2019’s level by 2.5% despite the obstacles presented by the Covid pandemic The watchword of the year has been Energy transition: the recovery is green The Year 2020 declared the beginning of a significant shift in many countries’ energy and environmental policies towards decarbonization based on challenging objectives operational excellence and sustainability energy to support the green recovery as a further confirmation of our sustainability pact Enel Green Power is ready to do its part to accelerate the energy transition and to accompany the development of new green initiatives: strengthening its teams to tackle new challenges forming new partnerships and turning its skills into a public good with informative online projects and initiatives on the ground to share the world of green energy – so that renewables belong to everyone more and more Enel Green Power is the Enel’s group brand focused on developing and managing renewable energy generation assets with a global presence in Europe Enel Green Power is a global leader in the green energy sector with a managed capacity of 47 GW across a generation mix which includes wind and is at the forefront of integrating innovative technologies as battery storage and green hydrogen production Enel green Power is a strategic partner that enables communities companies and their final consumers to move towards sustainable living driving the shift towards a decarbonised society and actively contributing to the development and wellbeing of the territories where it operates Enel Green Power and Novartis signed a 10 year Pan-European vPPAPress Release Sustainable Plant: Moldova NouaWindfarm in Romania New life for wind turbinesA sustainable challenge for Enel Green Power Romania’s totalitarian government launched the country into full-scale industrialization But Bucharest’s plight paled in comparison to that of the dozens of single-industry towns that sprang up under Communism and were now facing the elimination of their sole source of jobs. To understand how such places were coping, Cîrlig and her boyfriend moved in 2012 to the gold-mining town of Brad. Rather than approaching the town as an outsider, Cîrlig embedded herself in the community and made friends with many of the residents. “The main thing is that everybody had a job,” Cîrlig explains. “Now there’s no security, and everybody’s leaving. If you’re 60 and your child has to go to Germany to work because they can’t find a job here, I think you get nostalgic. You forget what you hated about the old regime. If you were actually hungry, or you went to jail because you listened to a Beatles record, it’s hard to be nostalgic.” To stay alive, many post-industrial Romanian towns have tried to turn themselves into tourist destinations. Former miners receive state pensions, but for young people, the former boomtowns hold few opportunities and little appeal. Increasingly they’re moving to Bucharest or other European cities. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives—from culture to business The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking two Romanians and a Serbian businessman met in a posh restaurant of the Pullman Hotel near downtown Bucharest to heatedly discuss how much to pay to bribe a judge and how to do it without getting caught Russian experts on their first visit to Moldova Noua (December 2011): Mikhail Orlov (left front) representative of Mineco Romania (right front) One of the men at the table was Aleksandar Andrejević a multinational company in the natural resources business Serbian officials sought Andrejević in connection to allegations of fraud charges but could not find him The other two were Iacob Chişărău, at the time director of the Romanian mineral company Moldomin, and Dan Adrian Rus, the representative of the Mineco subsidiary in Bucharest At stake was at least US$1 billion in copper deposits controlled by Moldomin a former Romanian state company now in bankruptcy Mineco had earned the rights to exploit the copper reserves from Moldomin but those rights were under attack by the Romanian state which suspected Mineco had not won the rights fairly The Romanian authorities had tried to block the sale of those assets to Mineco but a week earlier the Timisoara Appellate Court ruled Mineco could continue the process of buying the assets of Moldomin But more decisions were coming including an appeal and an attempt to replace the bankruptcy trustee of Moldomin To make sure they got the decision they needed, the Romanians and the Serbian businessman intended to bribe Judge Cătălin Nicolae Șerban, the vice-president of the Timisoara Appelate Court. The initial contact with the judge had been made at a Masonic lodge where both the judge and Chişărău are "brothers" which was surreptitiously recorded by Romanian prosecutors who were following some of the men multi-national struggle to control mineral resources of Eastern Europe Corruption in the extractive industries is not rare Minerals are often one of the most reliable sources of foreign income available to Eastern European governments but many assets are being lost to unscrupulous businessmen through bribery and corruption The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project combed through records in Russia the United Kingdom and Cyprus to uncover the players a Russian deputy from President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party and others The men’s discussion started at least six days before the Pullman meeting when Andrejević told Chişărău in a covertly recorded meeting that his boss Dimitrije (Miki) Aksentijević preferred if the bribe money came through a bank account and not in cash told him he was afraid that the withdrawal of a large amount of money from the bank would attract the attention of the authorities assured him that they knew how to do these things they decided that Chişărău would pick up the cash in Serbia Andrejević told the Romanians he would not personally attend the meeting in Serbia but he added that someone else will take his place before entering the Supreme Court building where his appeal against the initial sentence was going to be settled Chişărău crossed into Serbia entering Bela Crkva a small town of 8,000 about 10 kilometers from the Romanian border With him was the chief of police from the Moldova Nouă they stopped near the Hotel Royal on the edge of town Waiting for them was a black jeep 4x4 with two strangers inside and an envelope stuffed with Euros Chişărău took the money and returned to his car the Director of Mineco Ltd Andrejević received a text message that said simply: “Done.” But what Andrejević likely didn't know was that Chişărău was stopped shortly after upon entering Romania Romanian law enforcement found €50,000 on him The Romanian businessman wasn’t arrested but rather cooperated with police and followed the plan to deliver the bribe the money was marked with the words "trafic de influentă"- Romanian for "influence peddling" -- in ink visible only under a special fluorescent light The envelope did not go directly to the judge he asked Chişărău to leave the cash at his wife's public notary office possibly as an attempt to disguise the bribe as a fictitious transaction Mineco expected him to do a lot for the money: influence his colleagues on the appeals court in not one but two cases The first was to deny an appeal by the Romanian tax office on the sale of Moldomin assets; and the second was to block a state effort to replace the trustee handling the sale of Moldomin assets in the bankruptcy proceeding had originally handed Moldomin over to Mineco the judge was not only arrested for his efforts The envelope was short of his demanded payment by €10,000 left Romania on the day of the prosecutors operation The other accomplices were sentenced this year by the High Court of Cassation and Justice Judge Șerban was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison; Dan Adrian Rus got a two-year suspended sentence while the judge’s wife got a three-year suspended sentence Chișărău was sentenced to three years in prison Efforts to gain control of Moldomin go back years and involve a confusing web of players including one that used to belong to the notorious American financier Marc Rich one of the world’s largest trading and minerals company Both Rich and Glencore have been involved in numerous controversies over the years Andrejević, who is being investigated in Romania for his role in the bribery, is also being investigated in Serbia for an allegedly fraudulent privatization involving Mineco. Serbian authorities initiated the case in November 2011 is a member of the board of directors at Mineco AG a company established in 2002 in the Swiss canton of Zug He is a dual British and Serbian citizen who also used to work for Glencore a state-owned charter airline in former Yugoslavia and part of the Genex group one of the main trading houses in the former communist Yugoslavia The Serbians through Mineco originally targeted Moldomin in 2006 when Mineco, together with a local company called Metanef, participated in an initial offering bid to join the Romanian state in exploiting the copper reserves. At the time, Rus was an executive in the Metanef group. Like Mineco, this Romanian company was previously connected to Glencore when Moldomin collapsed under its burden of debt The state-owned company owed near €50 million to the state budget The collapse occurred despite Moldomin’s huge mineral assets The company has exploitation rights over a large territory situated north of the Danube River Romanian authorities are trying to prove that Mineco’s control of Moldomin assets was not done according to regulation Deputy Abdrakhmanov together with Iacob Chișărău Chișărău is the only one sentenced to three years of prison for corruption This is not the only controversy Mineco has been involved with in Romania a middle-aged Russian geologist with grey hair and a thick mustache arrived at Henri Coandă International Airport in Bucharest for a morning flight Romanian law enforcement approached him as he waited for his plane Their search found what Romanian authorities would later claim was classified geological maps the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) and the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) announced that they had uncovered espionage and a threat against Romania's national security They said the maps contained classified information about copper and rare metals reserves in the Moldova Nouă area the charge was later changed to corruption At the center of the investigation was a Russian citizen described by officials only as “O.M.”­ Russian citizen OCCRP has identified the man as Orlov Mikhail a geologist who was part of a team of Russian mining experts brought to Romania by Mineco’s Aksentijević OCCRP learned the expert team was led by Ilyas Abdrakhmanov, 62, deputy of the Republic of Bashkiria, a Russian Federation Territory, and a member of Putin's United Russia political party. The case is currently under investigation which has been present in Romania for over 15 years has announced it will shut down its factory in Moldova Noua laid off in 2016 many of its employees and said the factory closure was due to the scarcity of labour force in the region the lack of labour force made the company reach the decision to shut down its factory In 2016 the company had a turnover of RON 378 million the factory’s activity will stop at the end of March and will impact its current employees “We will take all steps needed together with the parties involved to minimise the negative impact and to look for solutions that can help employees affected by this measure,” the company’s officials said We use cookies for keeping our website reliable and secure providing social media features and to analyse how our website is used Delphi Electrical/Electronic Distribution Systems electrical/electronic distribution systems are comprised of many different modules each with a specification that is dependent on the content of the vehicle and the options chosen by the consumer “These modules are increasingly complex often with built-in control electronics,” explains Gulicska we will focus on manufacturing a range of these customized modules removing complexity from our other manufacturing operations and allowing for better overall efficiency.” the company opened 1,400 square meters of the Moldova Noua facility. During this phase the manufacturing team is validating processes and gaining valuable production experience An additional 2,400 square meters of the facility will be opened in September 2011 Delphi currently operates three plants in Romania employing more than 10,000 people at facilities that manufacture wiring harnesses and components for high-precision diesel common rail systems Many of the systems manufactured by Delphi use the company’s innovative lightweight cable which has a gage size of just 0.13m2 compared with an industry average of 0.35m2 The company claims that by substantially reducing the size and weight of wiring harnesses the cable helps vehicle manufacturers improve fuel economy The small gage cable also reduces exposure to fluctuating copper prices The company’s plants in Sannicolau Mare Moldova Noua and Ineu produce electrical/electronic distribution systems while its plant in Iasi produces diesel engine management systems Born in Timisoara on 26th November 1933 Ella Zeller CONSTANTINESCU celebrated her 93th birthday today Outstanding at ball games in addition to table tennis she excelled at handball volleyball and basketball when 13 years old playing for the local town table tennis team she attracted considerable attention She stood out from the crowd; in 1950 after leaving high school she enrolled at the Institute of Physical Culture and Sport in Bucharest the club where Angelica ROZEANU six times winner of the Women ‘s Singles title at the World Championships was a member Rapid progress followed a place in the Romanian national team was achieved and medals at World Championships gained Notably 1956 1957 and 1963 she reached the semi-final stage of the Women’s Singles event at the World Championships but her strength was as team player In 1953 in Bucharest she teamed with Angelica ROZEANU to win the Women’s Team title before in 1955 in Utrecht and 1956 in Tokyo again with Angelica Rozeanu she struck gold in both the Women’s Team and Women’s Doubles competitions Many titles came her way notably at the first ever European Championships in 1958 she won Women’s Doubles gold again in partnership with Angelica ROZEANU; before in 1966 she retired from international play but was not lost to the sport of table tennis She assumed the position of head coach for the national team before fulfilling a major role within the European Table Tennis Union She became a member of Management Committee later she assumed the role Vice President and is now a honorary member ETTU Honorary member; ETTU Vice President 1988-1992 1953 World Champion in Women’s Teams 1955 World Champion in Women’s Teams 1955 World Champion in Women’s Doubles (with Angelica Rozeanu/ROU) 1956 World Champion in Women’s Teams 1956 World Champion in Women’s Doubles (with Angelica Rozeanu/ROU) 1952 Vice World Champion in Women’s Teams 1957 Vice World Champion in Women’s Teams 1963 Vice World Champion in Women’s Teams 1958 European Champion in Women’s Doubles (with Angelica Rozeanu/ROU) 1958 Vice European Champion in Women’s Teams 1964 Vice European Champion in Women’s Doubles (with Maria Alexandru/ROU) 1st place in Women’s Singles: 1957 – 1961 1st place in Women’s Doubles: 1953 – 1956 1958 – 1961 1963 – 1965 1st place in Mixed Doubles: 1952 1956 – 1959 1961 1963 The European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) is the governing body of the sport of table tennis in Europe and is the only authority recognized for this purpose by the International Table Tennis Federation The ETTU deals with all matters relating to table tennis at a European level including the development and promotion of the sport in the territories controlled by its 58 member associations and the organization of continental table tennis competitions Ports play a vital role in a nation’s economic development by facilitating smooth trading operations They also contribute to global economic prosperity through the maintenance of supply networks across many countries Romania is the twelfth largest country in Europe with a growing economy. It borders the black sea to the southeast and shares a maritime border with Turkey It also has many inland ports situated on the Danube The strategic location of Romania places the country as an important player in international maritime trade and commerce The Romanian Ports are managed by the Ports Authority of Romania Let’s look at some major ports of Romania in this article Constanta is Romania’s most important port located on the western coast of the Black Sea It is not only a crucial hub for trade but also a famous tourist spot The port’s capacity is 90 million tons per annum with a 19-meter natural depth and has modern equipment Constanta deals with many types of cargo such as dry and liquid one the port has emerged as the principal Eastern waterway for agriculture-related business to and from Romania and other neighbouring countries It also faces the challenge to accommodate huge ships and new cargo types This requires further improvement in existing facilities and so the government is constantly working to build new connections with the Caspian region to draw new kinds of cargo The Port of Midia resides on the Black Sea coastline and is around 13.5 nautical miles from Constanța It functions as a satellite port of Constanta and was constructed to meet the requirements of industrial and petrochemical industries located nearby ship repairs and maintenance services are also provided The port has 14 berths including 11 operational berths This port is mainly used for transporting crude oil to the Petromidia Refinery The Medgidia port is one of the largest riverine ports in Romania It records 1.2 million tons of annual commercial traffic and 10.3 million tons of annual industrial traffic These statistics clearly outline its importance for the Romanian economy It is located near Medgidia city and is well equipped with the latest operational equipment The Constanza International Airport is just 31 km from the port Bechet port is situated on the left bank of the Danube and is accessible only through roads and the vertical one which is 70 meters long it can handle ships weighing around 2000 tons It has flourishing annual freight traffic of about 50,000 tons every year It has three berths with the cereal berth being 100 meters the berth for general goods being 200 meters and the dana oil terminal which is 300 meters long The port is equipped with huge storage spaces It provides services such as post-telecommunications and also hydrometric measurements and has a grain transhipment facility The Galati port called BAZINUL NOU Port was built in the early 1900s and is the second-largest Romanian port It is situated near Galati city and is an important revenue source for the city due to the presence of many multinational corporations near the port It is the most important port of the Danube and its key activities include shipbuilding and chartering for a variety of goods The Galati Shipyard is owned by the Damen Group which is a Dutch enterprise The METAL TRADE Group took over and privatized the port in 1999 the port has witnessed tremendous growth in terms of an increase in the volume of trade and the development of modern infrastructural facilities It also specializes in port services such as loading and unloading and storage of import and export goods Its goods traffic increased to around 1,100,000 tons in 2006 Metallurgical products amounted to 900,000 tons the share of bulk goods was 120,000 tons and general goods were around 15,000 tons Timber was 51,000 cubic meters and containers numbered ar 225pieces The port covers an area of 334,464,470 square meters and is accessible through roadways The port of Calarasi is situated near the Borcea arm of the Danube There is a minimum water depth of 2.8m in the basin The port comprises three areas – the Industrial Port which can be reached through an access canal The Calarasi port handles cargo which includes It handles approximately 1,690,000 tons of cargo annually The industrial port specializes in metallurgical products It has functional berths consisting of a vertical wharf measuring 400m for handling steel products It has another platform that is 135 meters long for loading slag The Commercial Port is quite close to the city It has an inclined wharf berth which also has a grain silo and port platform It also has bulk goods storage berths measuring 250 m The port also boasts of berths for passengers which are well equipped with a waiting room and also mooring pontoons for the safety and ease of passengers The commercial port platforms span 213,000 sqm with the warehouses covering around 3000 sqm The Calarasi port has two operating springs with inclined docks The Braila port is a riverine port on the Danube and is a crucial port of Romania dealing in trade and transportation of cereals It is a part of the TEN-T network and comprises the following areas- The first is the old region of ​​Braila port which has a non-operational area with a natural shoreline Then there is a vertical wharf of around 1200 m and 171 km downstream are five berths of 400 m for passenger ships There is also a 750 m long maritime berth with a sloping quay for general cargo The Docuri basin has a port front whereas the Braila free zone is divided into three sectors Sector one is situated downstream of the Braila pore the second sector is called the “Varsatura” area which is on the Braila outskirts and the third sector is located in the vicinity of the port Braila Port has enormous potential for growth if the river transport could be carried out largely by the industries in the area along with an increase in Braila’s capacity to handle more cargo There is also a need to modernize the infrastructure in the Port of Barila Second is the oil port area- “Cioroiu” with a wharf measuring 710 m which has commercial operative berths and waiting berths It has modern pontoons for fuel manoeuvring and a fuel depot as well It also has tanks and huge storage containers The commercial area “Plant Basin” comprises the north side and the south side of the basin The “Veriga” pool area used by the Giurgiu Shipyard is a hub for the construction and repair of ships The Giurgiu Free Zone entails the “Cioroiu” port zone and the Chemical Plant area The Port of Orsova is located on the Danube near Romania’s Mehedinți County The industry in the small town is centered on energy production and extraction of bentonite The port of Orsova provides shipbuilding services and has an annual operational capacity of 12,00,000 tons The Orșova shipyard was built in 1890 for the repair of sea vessels but after the 1990s The major commercial activity of this port is Receipt and storage of goods and offices which are readily available for rent It has sophisticated equipment such as gantry cranes The port also offers services like border customs Ports are essential as they bridge the gap between the land and sea They also provide easy movement of freight traffic and people from one place to 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