Romania Transp Min To Handle Construction Of Bucharest-Danube Canal

Romania’s Transportation Ministry on Monday said it took over from the country’s Water Board the construction of a canal to link capital Bucharest to Danube River.

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The protocol to take over the project represents another important step to complete the works, secretary of state Antonel Tanase said.

He mentioned the Bucharest-Danube canal, estimated at some EUR500 million, should be completed by mid 2014.

The canal is expected to create some 10,000 new jobs.

After completion, the canal would be used to transport commodities, to produce electricity through four micro-hydroelectric power plants and to ensure water for irrigations, while the adjacent lands might be rented for different construction works.

Through the Bucharest-Danube canal, the capital city would be linked to the Pan-European Transport Corridor 7.

The canal should also protect against floods about 30,000 hectares of farming land and 11 localities and to ensure the necessary water to irrigate 150 hectares of arable land.

The micro-hydropower plants that might be built on the canal should produce about 58 gigawatts-hour annually.

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