Burgas
Burgas is a port-city located in the region of Burgas Bay on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. It is the closest large port to the Bosphorus Strait. The city of Burgas is an important logistic node on Trans-European Transport Corridor VIII and a primary maritime gateway in the TRACECA network connecting Europe with Central Asia.
Bulgaria’s BMF Port Burgas quickly recovered all systems after the cyber attack
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 17, 2022 – Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of BMF Port Burgas has recovered all systems and is operating with full...
Bulgaria’s port of Burgas under cyber attack
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 16, 2022 – In the early morning of November 16, the cyber network of BMF Port Burgas was attacked by a virus. It...
Russian LPG exporters will start sending it to Bulgaria via Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti
Poti, Georgia (PortSEurope) July 17, 2022 – Russian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exporters will start sending it to Bulgaria via Georgia’s Black...
Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund acquires a “significant” share in the two largest terminals of port of Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) June 21, 2022 – A significant, non-majority share in the BMF Port Burgas terminals operator in Bulgaria’s second...
Burgas port with 40% increase in cargo turnover, but no cruise ship visits
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) June 12, 2022 – Bulgaria’s second largest Black Sea port, Burgas, had an increased cargo turnover in the first five months...
Three more container ships to double the cargo capacity of the Middle Corridor between Aktau and Baku
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) April 19, 2022 – As of September the number of ships that operate the Caspian Sea line between the Aktau in Kazakhstan and...
Dnevnik: Why (pan-European) Corridor 8 has not connected the Balkans for three decades
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 14, 2022 – A key priority for Bulgaria is the construction of the missing stretches of Corridor 8 (one of the 10...
Bulgaria pushes for a Ro-Ro line with Turkey between the ports of Burgas and Karasu
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2022 – Bulgaria keeps pushing for the establishment of a Ro-Ro line between the country’s second largest Black...
Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia agree on a transit route connecting Persian Gulf with Black Sea
Amirabad, Iran (PortSEurope) December 15, 2021 – In a desperate need of trade links severely curtailed under Western sanctions, Iran has agreed with...
Bulgaria’s BMF Port Burgas is to be sold
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 17, 2021 – The concession for Burgas East-2 and Burgas West Black Sea ports, controlled by controversial Bulgarian...
Three of Europe’s poorest countries struggle to open pan-European corridor VIII connecting Adriatic and Black Seas
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 19, 2021 – After years of neglect and inactivity, the transport ministers of Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Albania...
Maersk changes logistics landscape in Bulgaria
Cargo transport in Bulgaria is highly dominated by road. In the mid-2000s, railways remained a major mode of freight transportation, but with increasing...
Will European Corridor VIII ever connect Bari and Brindisi to Durres and Vlora, and to Burgas and Varna?
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) June 11,2021 – The reconstruction works in Bulgaria for the key railway element of Pan-European corridor VIII that started...
Port of Burgas cargo volumes rise to pre-pandemic levels
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 24, 2021 – Cargo turnover of the state-owned Port of Burgas, one of the seven port operators in the Gulf of Burgas,...
Karasu port to add Ro-Ro service to Burgas after the one to Constanta
Burgas, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) May 3, 2021 – Studies have started for the establishment of a Ro-Ro line between Bulgaria’s second largest Black Sea port...
Bulgaria’s port of Burgas will implement a dredging project to coincide with Varna
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) February 10, 2021 – Bulgaria’s second largest Black Sea port of Burgas will start dredging works in March which will allow...
MedCruise’s Black Sea Working Group launches a joint video campaign
The Black Sea Working Group composed of Odesa, Constanta,Varna and Burgas ports was created in 2018 with the purpose to resume cruise activity in the Black...
Analysis – Central Asia to help China bypass Russia en route to Europe
Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) December 3 – It is China, again, that is emerging as an unlikely winner from the agreed direct link between Turkey and...
Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company joins International Port Community Systems Association
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) September 14, 2020 – The state-owned Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company (BPI Co.) has become the newest member of the...
Bulgarian Glavbolgarstroy won the two major orders for the expansion of BMF Port Burgas
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) July 28, 2020 – Bulgarian construction company Glavbolgarstroy (GBS) won two major orders for the expansion of BMF Port Burgas...