The shipping platform

Location: Constantza is situated on the W coast of the Black Sea, approx 179nm from the Bosporus and 85nm from the mouth of Sulina waterway through which the Danube flows into the sea, approx 250km E of Bucharest. General overview: It is the principal port of Romania and the largest on the Black Sea. It covers an area of 3,926ha and has a handling capacity of 115,000,000t annually. The port is protected by the N and S breakwaters, with a combined length of 14.9km. There are 282 berths with a total quay length of 65.4km. The port complex consists of the Old Port to the N and the New Port to the S. The port has access to the Danube-Black Sea Canal and much of the port’s activity involves transshipment of cargo between seagoing vessels and barges. The North Port is entirely operational and consists of 12 basins, water depth between 7.0m and 13.5m, with 15.5km of quay and 82 berths. It has specialized terminals for ores, coal, crude oil and oil products, grains, chemical products, rolled metals, containers, general cargo, platforms and warehouses. The South Port is partly operational. There are 13km of quays, 70 operational berths and handling capacities for ores, coal, phosphate, containers, grain, rolled metals, bitumen, general goods, platforms and warehouses. Part of the traffic is handled as Ro-Ro and ferry cargo. The South Port encompasses the entrance into the Danube-Black Sea Canal at Agigea, which is part of Europe's most important waterway, the Rhine-Main-Danube corridor. In addition, it has a dedicated river/maritime basin for transhipment of cargo into river barges. The Port of Constantza has a specialized terminal for chemical products and fertilizers that contains 10 berths with depths to 13.5 meters. They include storage capacity for 100 thousand tons and capacity to handle 4.2 million tons of dry bulk and general cargoes per year. The terminal can accommodate vessels to 30 thousand DWT and has operation capacity for 30 thousand tons of phosphates. The Port of Constantza operates four container terminals that have experienced constant and steady growth in cargo volume. A new container terminal recently opened in the Port of Constantza’s Port-Pier IIS that can accommodate post-Panamax container ships. The new terminal can handle 325 thousand TEUs per year, and it will handle up to one million TEUs in the future. The Port of Constantza has two roll-on/roll-off terminals that handle vehicles and other ro-ro cargoes. The Port of Constantza exports Romanian vehicles to Brazil, Turkey, China, and Columbia from two specialized link-span berths. The Roll-on/Roll-off Terminal in the north area of the Port of Constantza has a berth of 364 meters with alongside depth of 13 meters, and it has parking space for 4800 vehicles. The Roll-on/Roll-off Terminal at the south area of the Port of Constantza has a 214-meter-long berth with alongside depth of 13.2 meters and parking space for 1800 vehicles. PLEASE NOTE -Constanta VTS should be contacted 2 hours prior arrival to roads in VHF channel 67 for anchoring or berthing instructions. -Ballast ex-change not required. -Discharging of sewage in port / port limits (12 Nm) not allowed even is treated. Valves should be kept closed. -no tide. -night navigation allowed. BUNKER REGULATION Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (max 0.5%) should be used until vsl is alongside berth then in max 2 hrs (fm berthing time) vsl need to switch to Low Sulphur Gasoil(max 0.1%). Same to be maintain till unberthing time. Traffic figures: Approx 14,300 vessels visit the port, 37,224,000t of cargo and 648,500TEU handled annually. Load line zone: Summer Zone for ships over 100m in length and Winter Seasonal Area for ships of 100m or less in length, Winter Dec 1 to Feb 28/29, Summer Mar 1 to Nov 30. Max size: North Port: Dry Cargo: LOA 254m, beam 32.3m, draught 12.3m, 65,000DWT. Liquid Oil: LOA 242m, beam 40m, draught 13.6m, 165,000DWT. Dry Bulk: LOA 302m, beam 46m, draught 17.5m, 220,000DWT. Prohibited IMO Class: 5.2 / 6.2 / 1 / 7. IMO Goods can be discharged/transhipped in Constanta under special conditions and approvals. IMO Class can be handled on a special request and if these kind of cargoes are moved for/through Government