Dacia, Romania's largest exporter, grew its exports by almost 10% in 2025, sending automobiles and components worth 24.6 billion lei to foreign markets over the year, along with spare parts valued at a further 1.6 billion lei. Behind those figures stands one of the country's least visible logistics operations: the customs department at the Mioveni plant, which manages the flows that make the carmaker's export business possible.
On a typical day the department organizes approximately 70 transports — trucks, containers and trains — carrying finished vehicles and parts toward markets abroad. The unit is as rooted as it is discreet: it was founded in the year the Logan was launched, and its employees manage the import-export flows that connect Mioveni with countries such as Turkey and Morocco. Every Dacia Duster destined for export passes through this team before leaving Romania.
Few outsiders know the people who work there, yet the department's workload has scaled steadily with the brand's rise. As exports climbed almost 10% in 2025, the team's roughly 70 daily transports became the operational heartbeat of Romania's single largest export business — the mechanism that turns Mioveni's production lines into deliveries on foreign forecourts.
That in-house capability matters all the more given the strain on the region's border crossings. Radio Europa Liberă reported that some 3,000 trucks a day caused queues at the border, and border police said an additional reversible lane was opened overnight at Leușeni-Albița, accommodating more than 300 trucks before the lane switched back to passenger car traffic. For an exporter dispatching dozens of loads a day from a single plant, tight customs coordination is what separates a delivery schedule from a border jam.
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