American ship USS Truxtun visits Constanta

Newsroom 06/03/2014 | 13:41

U.S. Embassy in Romania announced that the USS Truxtun will visit Constanta between March 8-11 on a routine port call. While in Constanta, the ship’s crew will conduct joint training and information exchanges with Romanian counterparts and participate in an exercise with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies in the Black Sea.

The same source reveals that Truxtun, with a crew of approximately 300 Sailors, is currently on a scheduled deployment as part of the George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations.

The U.S. Navy is committed to helping enhance the security and stability of all European and African Nations, and our forward-presence, activities and engagements in this region are routine.

U.S. military operations and exercises are a part of a forward-presence posture to strengthen our transatlantic security and economic relationships.

According to hotnews.ro news portal, Turkey announced on Wednesday that an American ship received the rights to pass by Bosphorus Strait in the Black Sea, without saying the name of the naval ship.