Banks protection on the Sulina Canal

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BASIC  PROJECT  DATA

Project ID: PA1A025

 

NEED  AND  ADDED  VALUE  FOR  DANUBE  REGION  STRATEGY

Banks protection on the Sulina Canal is one of the important investment projects concerning the maritime sector of the Danube River. The Sulina Canal is a component of the Pan-European Transport Corridor VII, connecting the Danube with the Black Sea on Romanian territory.

The protection works for both banks of the Sulina Canal against damages caused by navigation of high-capacity maritime vessels and the protection of the Danube Delta area have been executed in several stages. The objectives of the works executed or planned to be executed are:

  • Stopping the massive bank erosion of the Sulina Canal
  • Keeping under control the water flow in the Sulina Canal
  • Decreasing the amount of sediments passing through the Sulina Canal to the sea
  • Decreasing the risk of flooding for human settlements and economic operations located along the Sulina Canal as well as of polluting the Danube Delta

 

OBJECTIVE(S)  OF  THE  PROJECT

Consolidation of banks in order to ensure the safety of transport on the canal.

 

PLANNED  PROJECT  ACTIVITIES

  • During the period 1986-2004, 35.944 km of bank protection works on both banks of the Sulina Canal were completed, funding was provided from the state budget.

The present project started in 2004 and had several components:

  • Rostock wreck removal from the Sulina Channel
  • Hydrographic survey system
  • Signalling system on the Danube
  • Bank protection works on Sulina Channel
  • 15 km of bank protection works were completed under this project; these works were contracted in May 2008 for 24.64 million EUR, date of completion: July 2013. Funding was provided as follows: 50% EIB and 50% state budget.
  • The new feasibility study elaborated in 2016, identified other 36.7 km of banks that need to be protected in a new project phase.

 

TRANSBOUNDARY  IMPACT

This sector of the Danube is used for navigation by vessels flying all kinds of flags. Through the Sulina Canal goods are transported from many European and Asian countries.

 

PROJECT BENEFICIARIES / TARGET GROUPS

  • Shipping companies
  • Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve
  • Inhabitants living in the Danube Delta

 

 

STATUS  AND  TIMEFRAME

Start date: 2004
End date: t.b.d.

 

NOTES

The project was co-financed by the European Investment Bank for 15 km of bank protection. The works were planned to be completed in January 2011 but the contractor was in delay and finally the works were completed in July 2013. Presently, the River Administration of the Lower Danube (AFDJ) is in arbitration with the contractor Reinhold Meister Wasserbau GmbH.

In March 2015 a contract was signed for the elaboration of a Feasibility Study for the rest of 37 km of bank protection. The works resulting from this FS could be financed under the Operational Programme for Large Infrastructure in Romania (POIM) 2014 – 2020 – Cohesion Fund. Presently, the environmental permit has been issued and a tender for the works contract is planned to be launched.

 

 

FINANCING

Total budget: 79,996,565 EUR (indicative)
EU funds: 64,304,565 EUR
funding under the Operational Programme for Large Infrastructure in Romania (POIM) 2014 – 2020 (CF) is not secured
National funds: 33,720,000 EUR state budget
IFI loans: 12,320,000 EUR European Investment Bank (EIB) loan for the project phase 2008-2013

Financing is only partly available. EU co-financing is not yet secured.

 

 

PROJECT  TEAM

Project leader: River Administration of the Lower Danube (AFDJ), Galati / Romania
(website: www.afdj.ro)
Address: Portului Street no. 32, Galati / Romania

Project partner: Ministry of Transport of Romania

 

 

PROJECT  ENVIRONMENT

PROJECT  CROSS – REFERENCE

  • Rostock shipwreck removed in 2006
  • Modernization of signalisation finalised in 2008
  • Purchase of 3 bathymetric surveying vessels delivered 2008

 

STRATEGIC  REFERENCE

  • Strategy for sustainable development on the period 2007–2013 and 2020, 2030 approved by Minister of Transport Order  no. 508/2008
  • Government Programme 2009–2012
  • Belgrade Convention (1948)
  • Navigation and Inland Waterway Action and Development in Europe (NAIADES) COM (2006) 6 final
  • White Paper Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system COM(2011) 144 final

 

RELEVANT  LEGISLATION

  • Decision No 661/2010/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network
  • Low no. 203/2003 regarding the guidelines for the creating, development and modernization of transport network of national and international importance

 

 

EUSDR  EMBEDDING

 

 

EUSDR  COMPLIANCE

 

 

OTHER  RELEVANT  ISSUES

PROJECT  REQUIREMENTS

Funding, efficient project management, experienced contractor with no financial problems.

 

 

META  DATA

Data provided by: Cristina Cuc, Monica Patrichi (Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, Romania) – 13.09.2011
Last update by: Catalina Dumbrava (River Administration of the Lower Danube-Galati, Romania) – 21.08.2017

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