Use the Background Information section of these net notes to help you.

• Bearing in mind all the conditions which have to be met for a steelworks to be successful, put the following statements in the correct column in the grid below.

1. Plenty of flat land
2. Plenty of water
3. Iron ore can arrive by sea
4. Coal from Soviet Union arrives by sea
5. Skilled engineers
6. Old-fashioned equipment
7. Right number of workers
8. Customers and suppliers easily reached by ships up the Danube
9. Russia/Soviet Union ready to buy lots of steel from Romania
10.State shipyard next door, which buys lots of your steel
11.Privately owned shipyard next door, which buys some steel from you but more from cheaper suppliers
12.Up to date equipment