Orsova

Orsova is a port town at the Danube river in southwestern Romania's Mehedinti County. It is one among 4 localities within the county placed inside the Banat historic area. It is situated just above the Iron Gates, immediately in which the Cerna River meets the Danube. The metropolis is a center for the extraction of bentonite, chromium, and granite. The enterprise is focused on strength manufacturing, shipbuilding and engine manufacturing, assembly elements for electricity manufacturing, textiles, and the processing of feldspar, asbestos, quartz, talc, wood, and so on.

The Orșova shipyard become built in 1890 and prefer a small reparation store for the vessels which participated to the navigable channel from Iron Gate Romania- Sip Yugoslavia and had a continuously development along time. After the yr 1991 the call changed into changed and also the organizational profile. A wind farm is being advanced within the city territory, on a hill close by; the first mills have become lively there in 2009.