{"id":8525,"date":"2026-01-22T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:00:30","slug":"two-containers-carrying-undeclared-waste-stopped-at-romanias-port-of-constanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8525","title":{"rendered":"Two containers carrying undeclared waste stopped at Romania\u2019s Port of Constan\u021ba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities have stopped two containers carrying around 40 tons of suspected waste at the Port of Constan\u021ba, preventing their import into Romania, the Border Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politiadefrontiera.ro\/ro\/main\/i-containere-incarcate-cu-aproximativ-40-tone-deseuri-depistate-in-portul-constanta-42548.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>. The containers had arrived from Tunisia and were bound for a Romanian company.<\/p>\n<p>Border police officers from the Coast Guard, working alongside customs inspectors and environmental commissioners, carried out checks on the containers on January 20, after they arrived from Tunisia. During inspections, officials found hoses, cables, pieces of rigid material, and a white, crumbly substance inside the containers.<\/p>\n<p>The materials, the Border Police said, did not match the characteristics of the goods declared in the shipping documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommissioners from the National Environmental Guard \u2013 Constan\u021ba County Commissariat concluded that there are reasonable suspicions that the materials in question are waste, under Government Decision No. 856\/2008 on waste classification, namely waste resulting from construction and demolition activities, as well as plastic waste,\u201d reads the press release.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, officials ordered the return of the two containers to the country of origin.<\/p>\n<p>A criminal investigation has also been opened for breaches of Romania\u2019s waste management laws, with inquiries being conducted under the coordination of a specialised prosecutor from the Constan\u021ba court prosecutor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: Politiadefrontiera.ro)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authorities have stopped two containers carrying around 40 tons of suspected waste at the Port of Constan\u021ba, preventing their import into Romania, the Border Police announced. The containers had arrived from Tunisia and were bound for a Romanian company. Border police officers from the Coast Guard, working alongside customs inspectors and environmental commissioners, carried [&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-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","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=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}