{"id":8012,"date":"2025-12-05T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8012"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:00:51","slug":"romanias-constanta-port-enters-europes-top-10-despite-lower-2024-cargo-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8012","title":{"rendered":"Romania&#8217;s Constan\u0163a port enters Europe&#8217;s top 10 despite lower 2024 cargo volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s Port of Constan\u0163a rose to 10th place among European seaports by cargo volume in 2024, despite handling just over 50 million tonnes, a 14% decline from the 67 million tonnes processed in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/zf-24\/constanta-a-urcat-pe-locul-10-in-topul-porturilor-europene-dupa-22966646\" target=\"_blank\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a> reported, citing Eurostat data.<\/p>\n<p>Eurostat figures showed that Romania ranked 13th in 2023, with the latest shift driven by relative declines in other ports rather than an expansion in Constan\u0163a&#8217;s operations. The port recorded the steepest percentage drop in the European Union last year.<\/p>\n<p>Across the EU, seaports handled about 3.4 billion tonnes of cargo in 2024, a level similar to 2023 but below the highs of the past decade, including 3.6 billion tonnes in 2019. Rotterdam remained the bloc&#8217;s largest freight port, processing 397 million tonnes. Antwerp-Bruges followed with 244 million tonnes, ahead of Hamburg with 97 million tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the EU&#8217;s top ten ports registered increases in 2024. Valencia posted a 3.6% rise, while Algeciras recorded a 2.6% gain, both in Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the opposite end, Constan\u0163a registered a 14.3% contraction, while Gda\u0144sk in Poland recorded an 11% decline.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dynamoland\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s Port of Constan\u0163a rose to 10th place among European seaports by cargo volume in 2024, despite handling just over 50 million tonnes, a 14% decline from the 67 million tonnes processed in 2023, Ziarul Financiar reported, citing Eurostat data. Eurostat figures showed that Romania ranked 13th in 2023, with the latest shift driven by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}