The overall objective of the project is: Increase the region’s long-term competitiveness and commercial, industrial and tourism attractiveness for investment, capitalising on the environmental heritage, creating new employment opportunities and improving the living conditions of the population. The mission of Sulina Port (Mission Statement) Sulina is an entry and exit port for commercial cargo cargoes and for tourist cruise ships and river-sea terminal ports on the Pan-European Transport Corridor VII. Corridor VII, established at the Pan-European Transport Conferences (Crete — 1994 and Helsinki — 1997), consists of the Danube — Main — Rhine navigable artery. Corridor VII is a central axis of European inter-territorial relations and is considered the backbone of a dynamic and complex territorial system, a development factor included in European strategies for economic, social and spatial development and territorial cooperation. Ensuring the flow of river traffic along the Rhine-Main-Dunare corridor, from the North Sea — the port of Rotterdam — to the Black Sea — Constanta and Sulina ports, situated in a key position, on the eastern border of the European Union, is likely to be of direct interest to the EU’s riparian Member States, with a significant potential for economic and social impact, by increasing the competitiveness of river transport as a sustainable mode of transport, involving the recovery of port activities in Sulina, situated at Km 0/Mm 0 of the Danube River. On the other hand, in the context of European transport corridors and tourist traffic at European and international level, Sulina is placed, as a terminal port, in a port-city position for the Danube Delta as a major objective of tourist interest. In this juncture, actions are necessary to capitalise on the memorandum for the development of cruise tourism on the Danube, signed in 2002, in Hainburg, Austria, in which Sulina is included as a tourist terminal, being the terminus point of corridor VII. This project contributes to the achievement of the following indicators: Programme indicators: 2S19 Modernised Non-TEN-T Ports Result Indicators: 2S3 Goods transported by inland waterway (UM mil/tonne/year) Also, this project has the following expected results: Rehabilitation of current port infrastructure, vertical keys: 1.300 ml-area type “A” ml 1300 Estacade rehabilitation on existing pilots: 4 pcs x 30 ml -area “B”; pcs 4 Rehabilitation on existing pilots: 2 pcs x 100 ml -area “C”; pcs 2 Rehabilitation on existing pilots: 4 pcs x 40 ml -zone “D”; pcs 4 Estacade Rehabilitation on Designed Columns: 10 pcs x 40 ml -zone ‘E’; pcs 10 Construction of mooring for loading/