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Danube - Bucharest canal to be inaugrated in 2014

Danube - Bucharest Canal works are to be re-launched mid-2010, and its inauguration is set four years later, after the Canal officially passed from the Ministry of Environment administration into the one of the Ministry of Transport, announced Antonel Tanase, State secretary with the Ministry of Transport.

'The Ministry of Transport took over this canal from the Romanian Water Administration, going to finish the feasibility study by mid-2010 and then the company in charge of the drafting and construction will be selected. Works are to start in July 2010 and the finalization is set four years later', said Antonel Tanase.

He pointed out that finalization works of this Canal, implemented in a proportion of 70 percent prior to 1990, will cost more than 500 million euros, financing being covered by European funds or by the company selected to build the canal, should this financing form is chosen based on the feasibility study.

'When the Canal is finalized, Bucharest will become the fifth Capital port to the Danube, and it will be connected to two seas, the Black Sea through Constanta and the North Sea, through Rotterdam', said Ovidiu Cupsa, director general of the Constanta Navigable Channels Administration, company to run this project.

The canal will have a capacity of up to 20 million tons in annual transit volume, will secure the needed water for the irrigation of more than 150,000 hectares agricultural land and water supply to adjacent localities, as well as the electricity production of 58 GWh per year by hydro power stations to be placed in the hydro-technical hubs on the Canal, to which 15 GWh per year produced by Tangabu and Cucuieti hydro power stations on Dambovita river will be added. As well, some 30,000 hectares of agricultural land and 11 localities will get rid of flooding dangers.

'At the same time, this project is to create 10,000 jobs, both in the Canal's construction and the four hydro-technical hubs, which are to be raised by another company', said Antonel Tanase.

Danube - Bucharest Canal project provides two navigable ways on Arges and Dambovita rivers and three ports: 1 December on Arges, Glina on Dambovita and Oltenita port.

The works to Danube - Bucharest Canal started in 1986 based on a project drafted in 1982, but the idea dates back to 1929, when the Parliament adopted a law on the construction of a canal aimed at transforming Romania's Capital into a Danube port.

But the effective construction was launched only during the communist regime, immediately after the finalization of the Danube - Black Sea Canal. More than 70 percent of the works were carried out up to 1990, but after December 1989 the project was abandoned. In 1994, it officially entered conservation.

 

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