The Port of Constanta, on Romania’s Black Sea coast, is getting a new rail access. The project, valued at 750 million lei (approximately 150 million euros), is supposed to be built over the course of two years.

The new rail access would be the second entry point for rail into the Constanta port. The construction project, for which “technical-economic indicators” were approved by the government, includes a renovation of an existing 3,5-kilometre rail line as well as an approximately 500-metre tunnel, an extension of said tunnel towards the Palas station on the outskirts of Constanta, and lastly, electrification of rail lines in the port’s zone A.

As Romania’s largest port, the Constanta is a key logistics hub, including within the framework of the Middle Corridor. Illustratively, the Romanian logistics company Grampet Group and Kazakh Railways’ subsidiary KTZ Express will be working on an expansion and modernisation of infrastructure in the Port of Constanta as well.The cooperation “aims to streamline rail traffic for the transport of goods between Europe and Asia, especially on the China-Europe-China route”, according to Grampet Group.