Less goods shipped on Danube in first 9 months of 2011
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Some 22.108 million tons of goods were shipped on the Danube River in the first 9 months of 2011, down 31.1 percent compared to the similar period of 2010, according to statistics provided by the Ministry of Transports. Out of this quantity, 11.809 million tons of goods were transported nationwide and 4.695 worldwide, with the remainder representing transit.Ferried on the navigable channels were 8.421 million tons of goods. The total number of ships that transit the Romanian ...