Danube

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, visited the works on the construction of a high-speed road from the Poarevac interchange, via Veliko Gradite, to the municipality of Golubac.
On the first section of the high-speed road, work is being carried out on the construction of a new bridge over Velika Morava.

President of Serbia went on a tour of the fortress. The restoration of the Fetislam fortress took two years, EU representative said during the tour.
"This will be a special attraction. The Turks did this, and the Europeans rebuilt it," emphasized Vui.

BELGRADE - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia (PKS) hosted on Thursday in Belgrade a Serbia-Romania business forum attended by 43 Serbian and 31 Romanian companies.

PKS representative Mihailo Vesovic said Serbia had welcomed a Romanian business delegation for the first time in a decade.

Ukraine's deepening of a canal in the Danube Delta to boost exports is fuelling political tensions in Romania.

Romania and Bulgaria plan to build two hydropower plants on the Danube to be used jointly on the model of the Iron Gates hydropower plants operated jointly by Romania and Serbia, according to a document published on Tuesday by the Bulgarian government.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Ukraine hopes to export 500,000 tons of grain per month through the Danube after the liberation of Snake Island

Romania and Bulgaria began feasibility studies for the building of five new bridges over the River Danube after a meeting on Monday in Bucharest between Romania's Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu and his Bulgaria counterpart, Nikolai Sabev.

Low levels of the Danube hinder shipping along the Bulgarian section of the river.

The situation is the most critical in the area of Belene and near Svishtov.

The Maritime Administration Executive Agency announced that navigation regime through the critical Danube sections has been introduced, which indicates where it is safe to go through.

With a 1.1 billion euro budget from European funds, the Danube Delta has become in recent years Romania's largest investment project, shows a Sierra Quadrant expert analysis released on Monday.

Seven million vehicles have crossed the Vidin-Calafat bridge in the two directions between Bulgaria and Romania since the facility was commissioned in June 2013, Lyudmil Dimitrov, the new Executive Director of the joint Bulgarian-Romanian company which operates the bridge, said in a BTA interview.