Romania is the Country Coordinator for the Working Group on Transport for the term May 2009 - 30 June 2011
Since its inception, BSEC paid special attention to cooperation in transport focusing mainly on how to utilize effectively intra-region capacity and growing transit potential of the Black Sea region. In 1992 BSEC established the Working Group on Transport and Communications. In 1994 the Working Group was divided into two working groups – on transport and on communications.
The Working Group on Transport has its regular meetings and it carries out its functions as a working organ of this cooperation. The Working Group is guided by a country-coordinator, which is elected on a biannual basis. In accordance with the Terms of Reference for a Country-Coordinator, the latter submits to the WG an Action Plan for its term of coordination.
The meetings of the Ministers of Transport of the BSEC Member States constitute de-facto a decision making regular high-level transport forum with its mechanism of implementation - working group, steering committees and expert groups.
BSEC developed some important mutually supplemented projects in the region.
The work on the gradual liberalization of transportation is going on within the Memorandum of Understanding on Facilitation of Road Transport of Goods in the BSEC Region (signed in Kyiv in 2002). The Steering Committee established in accordance with this MoU works on the issues of gradual liberalization of transport, monitoring of border waiting times, introduction of the International Vehicle Weight Certificate, harmonization of charging policies etc.
Cooperation on the development of road infrastructure was established within the Memorandum of Understanding for the Coordinated Development of the Black Sea Ring Highway (signed in Belgrade on 19 April 2007). Implementation of the goals set up in the MoU is being done within the Steering Committee on the Development of the Black Sea Ring Highway.
Development of maritime infrastructure and links is under way within the Memorandum of Understanding on the Development of the Motorways of the Sea at the BSEC Region (signed in Belgrade on 19 April 2007) and this work is coordinated by the Ad Hoc Working Group pertaining to this Memorandum of Understanding.
The projects also constitute regional contribution to the extension of Trans-European Networks and the development of Euro-Asian transport links.
In the meantime, parallel to its work on these projects, BSEC, as a project-oriented organization, continue exploring new areas where it is desirable and realistic to develop and deepen multilateral cooperation in a regional format in the transport sphere, which carries particular prominence for the BSEC Organization.
In this work special attention is paid cooperation with other international organizations such as UN ECE, ITF/ECMT, IRU, IRF, and BSEC sectoral dialogue partners, BASPA, BRASS, BINSA and BSEC-URTA.