Press Digest
Press digest - year 2009
 
Port Varna SPJSC - Varna has appointed Extraordinary Meeting on 23.01.2009.
Source: Registry Agency (03.02.2009)
 
Port Varna SPJSC - Varna has appointed Annual general meeting on 27.05.2008. Meeting agenda includes: adoption of the Annual Report for Year 2007.
Source: Registry Agency (03.02.2009)
 
The company is registered in Territorial administration Big taxpayers and insurers towards 2009, 04.30
Source: Tax Administration (30.04.2009)
 
The processed freights by Port Varna were fewer by10 percent for the first six months of 2009 compared to same period last year but there is been slight growth in revenue, announced the Director of the company Danail Papazov. Profits from the processed 3 million tones cargo is BGN 1 million, he added. The results are due to good grain campaign and the processed heavy equipment - primarily intended for the wind parks in the region explained the port director.
Source: mediapool.bg (10.08.2009)
 
Forwarding companies expect income in the sector to rise after December 2, 2009 when the ferryboat line Varna-Port Caucuses will start operating, Georgi Minchev, chairman of the National Association of Bulgarian Carriers (NABC), told the Pari daily. A customs check-point for excisable goods will be opened at port Caucuses and it will allow spirits and cigarettes to be imported. The transportation of goods from Bulgaria to the East is important. It will compensate the 50-percent drop in exports to Western Europe, due to the decline in consumption, Minchev commented. The association has some 80 members. The new ferryboat line will shorten the time for delivery. The time for container transport will be the same as that of road transport and prices will drop. The development of transport on sea-river-railway is the future of the industry and should become priority for the government. That is the way to make Bulgarian railways competitive, to bring higher income for forwarding companies and the state, the ex chair of the parliamentary transport and communication committee, Yordan Mirchev, told the Pari daily. The income of shipping firms has decreased by half since the beginning of 2009 due to the downturn, data of the NABC show. They dropped from over BGN 600 million in 2008 to BGN 300 million. Some 2,000 are the companies operating on the Bulgarian market. Unlike international carriers, no forwarding company has been declared insolvent. Revival on the market is expected at the beginning of 2010 after the ferryboat line Varna-Port Caucuses is opened
Source: Pari (24.11.2009)
 
Concession prepared for large transport facilities The municipalities of Sofia and Plovdiv will be able to apply for the concessions on the two cities' central stations, deputy minister of transport Kamen Kichev said. The new strategy for modernisation of railway, port and airport infrastructure is now ready and will be officially presented in early 2010. According to it large ports like Burgas, Varna-East and Varna-West, the central stations in Sofia and Plovdiv, and the airports in Plovdiv, Ruse and Stara Zagora will be concessioned off. We have not abandoned the idea for public-private partnership, Kichev added. A new scheme will be used for the upgrade of stations. They will turn into transport hubs that will include the bus stations and the related parking lots. Interest has been shown already in the concession on the airports in Ruse and Stara Zagora. The airfield in Targovishte, which is owned by the Plovdiv airport, will be the first to be offered to concessionaires, in January 2010.
Source: 24 chasa (21.12.2009)