The partners ILR Logistica Romania
(private company), Giurgiu
Municipality and S.C. Administratia
Zonei Libere Giurgiu (both public
companies) are working on the
successful realization of the EUproject
"High Performance Green Port
Giurgiu". The global main objective
of this EU-funded project is to
transform the port of Giurgiu into
the first efficient green port on
the Danube.
The central part of the project is the
construction of the first tri-modal
logistics center on the Lower Danube
with a fully covered ship berth, in
which trucks, wagons and ships can
be loaded and unloaded independent
of the weather. This ensures a
quality-assured transshipment of
high-class industrial goods like
steel or automotive components. A
connection to the public railway and
the rehabilitation of the access roads
inside the port area are necessary for
the usage of the logistics center. The
overall project budget is about 15.5
million euros and is funded with 85 %
by the European Union.
The construction phase is fully
in progress. A first milestone
was achieved last year with the
connection of the future tri-modal
logistics center to the public railway.
This newly built railway track has a
length of about 740 meters and had
a construction period of about
7 months.
Furthermore, a cofferdam was built
to protect the site from the water of
the Danube and to keep it dry
during the construction phase.
In order to reach the proper
construction level of 21 meters, the
land had to be filled up with bulk
material. This was necessary in order
to protect the logistics center against
future high water.
In 2020 operation in this most
modern logistics center in
Southeastern Europe will start. It
offers companies a perfect logistical
infrastructure. An increase of the
annual capacity of the port from
current 135.000 tons in 2018 to
300.000 tons in 2026 is then possible.
Next to savings in transport handling
and transit time, the new port will
also reduce CO2 emissions and will
create new jobs in the Giurgiu region.
The importance of this project for
Europe was demonstrated at the
last CEF conference in Bucharest
in March 2019, where the CEO of
ILR Logistica Romania gave an
opening speech in the panel “How
to make the Rhine-Danube and
the Orient/East-Mid corridors fully
multimodal corridors”.
For more information about the project, please visit the following website:
Website: www.ilr.com.ro/projects/high-performance-green-port-giurgiu.html