The Treaty of Edirne, which ended the Russo-Ottoman War, opened up the possibility of trade with the Black Sea coast in 1829, as the Black Sea had previously been considered a Russo-Ottoman inland sea. The first Danube Steamship Company, founded barely half a year earlier, quickly saw the opportunity and promptly organized the Lower Danube, Black Sea and Mediterranean routes beyond the Iron Gate. The Vienna-Pest-Galați-Constantinople route established by 1836 could be divided into five sections, which, except for the Drenkova-Skela Kladova section, were also steamship routes: Vienna-Pest, Pest-Drenkova, Drenkova-Orsova/Skela Kladova, Skela Kladova-Galați and Galați-Constantinople. The DDSG also operated an express train service between Czernavoda and Constanta between 1840 and 1844, to allow steamship passengers to travel faster by avoiding the Danube Delta. However, under pressure from the imperial government, the DDSG sold its maritime business to Österreichischer Lloyd in 1844.
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