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Summer 2019 European Energy Innovation 45

COMMUNICATION

High Performance
Green Port Giurgiu

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 EU-
project „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 to protect the logistics center against last CEF conference in Bucharest
construction of the first tri-modal future high water. in March 2019, where the CEO of
logistics center on the Lower Danube ILR Logistica Romania gave an
with a fully covered ship berth, in In 2020 operation in this most opening speech in the panel “How
which trucks, wagons and ships can modern logistics center in to make the Rhine-Danube and
be loaded and unloaded independent Southeastern Europe will start. It the Orient/East-Mid corridors fully
of the weather. This ensures a offers companies a perfect logistical multimodal corridors”. l
quality-assured transshipment of infrastructure. An increase of the
high-class industrial goods like annual capacity of the port from
steel or automotive components. A current 135.000 tons in 2018 to
connection to the public railway and 300.000 tons in 2026 is then possible.
the rehabilitation of the access roads Next to savings in transport handling
inside the port area are necessary for and transit time, the new port will
the usage of the logistics center. The also reduce CO2 emissions and will
overall project budget is about 15.5 create new jobs in the Giurgiu region.
million euros and is funded with 85 %
by the European Union. The importance of this project for
Europe was demonstrated at the
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 For more information about the project, please visit the following website:
to protect the site from the water of www.ilr.com.ro/projects/high-performance-green-port-giurgiu.html
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

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