Varna
Varna is a Bulgarian port located on the country’s Black Sea coast; it is Bulgaria largest seaport; situated on Varna Bay, along Lake Varna and Lake Beloslav, it also comprises the outlying port of Balchik. It has a significant further development potential with 44 km of sheltered inland waterfront on the lakes alone, easily accessible by road and railroad and adjacent to Varna International Airport.
Bulgaria and Romania set to improve transport links
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) October 5, 2016 –Â Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Romanian counterpart Mihai Tudose have opened a new...
Greece to take advantage of strategic position via rail link project with Bulgaria, Tsipras says
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 7, 2017 – Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has said the project for the launch of a railway corridor linking the...
Bulgaria-Greece port railway connection project needs investment of €5 billion
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s transport minister Ivaylo Moskovski has said the total investment in the railway...
Bulgarian PM says port link project with Greece will boost energy, transport, tourist sectors
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Bulgaria’s prime minister Boyko Borisov has said the launch of a railway connection between...
New railway connection agreement between Greece and Bulgaria
Kavala, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – A memorandum of understanding between Bulgaria and Greece for a new railway connection will be signed...
Varna port calls tender for infrastructure overhaul
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 25, 2017 – Bulgaria’s Varna port has called a BGN 4.9 million ($3.0/€2.5 million) tender for the overhaul of...
Varna Port to invest €6 million in 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) August 15, 2017 –  ($3 million/€2.6 million) for new equipment and another BGN 5 million for improvement of port’s...
Six port multimodal corridor between Greece and Bulgaria
Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) July 17, 2017 – By the end of July, Greece and Bulgaria will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the...
Bulgaria and Greece to build a multimodal corridor between Black Sea, Aegean Sea and Danube
Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) July 6, 2017 – Bulgaria and Greece have announced that they plan to extend the multimodal transport corridor between the...
Over 30 shipping agencies use Single Window from the start of the Bulgarian system
Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) June 25, 2017 –Â Over 30 shipping agencies with nearly 100 users use the services of the electronic document processing...
Bulgarian ports passenger traffic rises 61.5% y/y in Q1 2017
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 26, 2017 – Bulgarian sea and river ports handled a total of 12,500 passengers in the first quarter of 2017, up 61.5% on the...
Bulgaria’s BPI Co. presents Black Sea real-time monitoring system
Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 25, 2017 – Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company (BPI Co.) has made a presentation of the first system for the monitoring...
Danube-Black Sea Gateway Region – multiport gateway region project started
Sofia, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) March 27, 2017 –Â More than 60 experts from central and eastern Europe took part in the Kick-Off Conference on the...
Bulgarian competition regulator cancels Vidin port concession
Vidin, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 28, 2017 – Bulgarian competition authority has cancelled a 35-year concession of the South Container Terminal at...
Varna port under consideration for South Stream project
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 15, 2017 – The South Stream project, which was proposed in 2007 and never realised, was supposed to deliver...
Varna port pre-tax profit almost doubles in 2016
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) February 9, 2017 – Varna port operator booked a pre-tax profit of BGN 13.5 million ($7.3 million/€6.9 million) in 2016,...
Varna port blocked by fishing fleet
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Following a month of protests, the Bulgarian fishing fleet, the representative organisation Black Sea...
Varna port sees rising wheat exports
Varna, Bulgaria (Ports Europe) January 9, 2017 – Varna port handled 1.286 million tonnes of wheat in the period between the start of the 2016/17 season, on...