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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.

No need for a new terminal in Burgas port

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) November 6, 2023 – A new port terminal is not needed as an extension of a new eastern breakwater to Port Terminal Burgas...

Port of Burgas to renovate its communist era Ro-Ro berth

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 16, 2023 – BGN 6.4 million (3.27 million euro) will be invested by Bulgaria’s state-owned Port Infrastructure for...

Port of Varna hosts trilateral Greece-Bulgaria-Romania summit

Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 9, 2023 – This week, the Port of Varna will host a trilateral Greece-Bulgaria-Romania summit. The meeting will...

Deepening the access to Bulgaria’s Burgas Port

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) October 8, 2023 – Deepening of the waterway in Bulgaria’s Black Sea Burgas-west port terminal will be partially financed...

Delegation from Bulgarian port of Burgas in Kavala

Kavala, Greece (PortSEurope) October 3, 2023 – On September 28, the Port of Kavala, together with the Kavala Chamber of Commerce and Dimofelia (Public...

Update 2: Bulgaria takes over operational control of Lukoil Black Sea port

Rosenets, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) September 4, 2023 – Operational control over Bulgaria’s Black Sea oil port/terminal of Rosenets, in concession to...

Bulgaria to cancel the Lukoil concession for Rosenets oil port

Rosenets, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) August 27, 2023 – Bulgarian Ministry of Transport said that the procedure for cancelling the concession of Russia’s Lukoil...

Abu Dhabi Ports is looking at Bulgaria

Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) May 17, 2023 – Bulgarian ports are an excellent alternative for the growing land cargo traffic from Asia to Europe,...

Port Burgas expands railway connections and warehousing

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) April 19, 2023 – Private port operator BMF Port Burgas, a concessionaire of the Black Sea’s Burgas East-2 and Burgas West...

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping certified vessels banned in Bulgarian ports

Varna, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) April 5, 2023 – From April 8, 2023, access to Bulgarian sea and river ports is prohibited for all vessels, regardless of...

Construction starts on the first Bulgarian deep water container terminal

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) March 1, 2023 – Private port operator BMF Port Burgas, a concessionaire of the Black Sea’s Burgas East-2 and Burgas West...

Railway connection of Burgas port to be rebuilt

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) February 3, 2023 – Construction work on the abandoned 3 km railway track from Bulgaria’s Black Sea port of Burgas to...

Bulgaria very slowly realising deficiencies of its port infrastructure

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) January 10, 2023 – In the background of the war in Ukraine, it became clear that Bulgaria’s Black Sea port...

Uzbekistan sends block train to Burgas, Bulgaria

Burgas, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) December 21, 2022 – Uzbekistan has send its first block train to Burgas, Bulgaria along the “Middle Corridor”....

Corridor 8 to be included in the priority Trans-European Transport Network

Sofia, Bulgaria (PortSEurope) December 6, 2022 – Corridor number 8 will become part of the priority Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The...

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...

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...

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