The largest grain transshipment terminal in Europe was inaugurated on Friday in Dornesti, Suceava County (northeast Romania) in the presence of Romanian and Ukrainian authorities.

The new terminal was built in a public-private partnership and cost about 10 million euros, financed by Grampet Group, the largest Romanian-owned private railway group in South-East Europe.

According to Grampet Group’s chairman, Gruia Stoica, the Dornesti terminal, located in the immediate vicinity of Ukraine, allows the transport of three million cereals per year and „becomes a strategic point in the flow of goods traffic to the port of Constanta.”

„Thanks to this transhipment capacity and all the other state-of-the-art technical and technological solutions offered, the Dornesti terminal will become a strategic point for the fluidity of grain traffic from the border with Ukraine to the port of Constanta. I want to tell you that the facilities here are similar to those of the major seaports. The terminal allows the transhipment of eight Ukrainian grain wagons, which are wide gauge, and eight Romanian wagons. As an idea, all other terminals in Europe allow the transhipment of up to two wagons at a time,” said Gruia Stoica.

Suceava County Council (CJ) President Gheorghe Flutur says that the investment in Dornesti decongests road traffic, choked by grain trucks.

The inauguration of the new grain transhipment terminal was attended by Secretary General of the Government Mircea Abrudean, Prime Minister’s honorary advisor on international economic relations Victor Ponta, Ukrainian Ambassador to Romania Ihor Prokopchuk, Romanian Consul General in Chernivtsi Irina Stanculescu, head of the Romanian Customs Authority Marcel Simion Mutescu, and several state secretaries.

AGERPRES