Economic and Political Interests at the Low Danube Mouths between 1936 and 1940

Abstract

The Sulina channel was still the only way of access to and from Danube of the commercial ships, although there had been many other initiatives of finding another derivation. The harbour of the maritime Danube were especially centres of purchasing rather cereals (almost 50 % of the total amount of the goods exported by sea) than wood. The exchanging of goods on the Danubian market was influenced, as well as the entire Romanian commerce, by a series of economical, fiscal and political factors. Towards the end of the 30s, in the context of worsening of the international relations, the influence of the world market begin to be shadowed by the political events. The geo-strategic and economic importance of the region is obvious, especially from the perspectives of the German interests, the geopolitical theoreticians of the Third Reich insistently asking to control the entire Danubian area.