Yesterday, DP World opened three new sites in Romania, adding much-needed capacity to marine infrastructure that has welcomed far more vessels in recent years.
Constanta, the largest container port on the Black Sea, is now home to two new facilities following a €65m ($70.6m) investment: a 5 ha project cargo terminal and a new roro terminal that will handle up to 80,000 vehicles per year at its peak. A further €50m will be invested in a new multi-transport platform in Constanta that will open in 2025. DP World’s third new facility to open yesterday is in Aiud, in the industrial heartland of Romania, which is now home to a new 8 ha intermodal logistics hub connecting rail and road, following a €21m investment.
DP World anticipates that its latest investments will encourage and enable major businesses to relocate or expand manufacturing facilities in the region. This reshoring can be seen in automotive manufacturing, which has increased rapidly in recent years in the region and is expected to grow further. Automotive already makes up 13% of Romanian GDP, with Mercedes-Benz, Renault-owned Dacia and Ford all manufacturing in the country. Automotive firms are also increasingly investing in neighbouring Hungary and Poland and nearby Turkey.
Splash has been reporting repeatedly on how Romanian port facilities have been struggling to handle the extra traffic inbound from Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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