In these days, a delegation of the System Authority Port of the Central and Northern Adriatic Sea went to in Moldova to learn more about the reality of the port of Giurgiulesti, a river port with which the port of Ravenna has already trade accounting for about 20% of the of the entire Italy-Moldova interchange, but which now, in the light of the of the current geopolitical scenario, has taken on a strategic role to international level. The mission follows the wish of a visit in Moldova and at the port of Giurgiulesti, to explore the possible opportunities for future cooperation between the two territories, expressed last October by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova in Italy, Anatolie Urecheanu, on the occasion of a meeting in Rome with the President of the Port Authority of the Central and Northern Adriatic, Daniele Rossi, and the Councillor for the Port of the Municipality of Ravenna, Annagiulia Randi.

The port of Giurgiulesti is located on the Danube, in a exactly where Ukraine's borders meet, Romania and Moldova. The airport covers an area of about 35 hectares and is operated by the private company ICS Danube Logistics. Last year, the Moldovan port handled a record traffic of almost 2.2 million tonnes of goods, with a increase of +18.6% over 2022, growth that was driven by the +55% increase in exports of cereals and seeds, which is rose to 889 thousand tons. Second volume of traffic is that of imports of petroleum products, which in 2023 are amounted to 599 thousand tons (+28%).

Ravenna is the Italian port of reference for import/export from the Black Sea: before the Russia-Ukraine war traffic with this area reached about 4.5 million tonnes, of which three million from Ukraine alone, clays for the ceramics district as well as agri-food and steel products. Currently, due to the war and sanctions affecting Russian Black Sea ports, these numbers have halved, but the port of Ravenna maintains However, the leadership for the trades still active with this region.