Burgas port
| Burgas port | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | BG BOJ | ||
| opening | 1903 | ||
| Port type | seaport | ||
| website | www.port-burgas.com | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Burgas | ||
| Oblast | Burgas Oblast | ||
| Country | Bulgaria | ||
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 27 ° 28 ′ 18 ″ E | ||
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The port of Burgas (English Port of Burgas , formerly also Port of Bourgas , Bulgarian пристанище Бургас / pristanište Burgas) is the largest seaport and the most important port in Bulgaria . It is located in the Black Sea city of Burgas , the fourth largest city in the country, and is part of the Trans-European Transport Network . The foundation stone for the modern port was laid in 1894 by a decision by the Bulgarian government to expand the port. In its old form, however, the port has been used since ancient times.
With the expansion of the port, the former Cape Burgas was built on. In 1899 the first Bulgarian seaport lighthouse was put into operation there. In 1903 the modern port was opened for merchant shipping in the presence of the Bulgarian King Ferdinand I.
history
| Statistics of the Black Sea ports of Burgas , Varna and Constanța for 1865 |
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| Burgas port | Varna harbor | Port of Constanta | |||
| Number of sailing ships | 4487 | 1286 | 460 | ||
| Loading capacity of the sailing ships | 250,693 | 112.503 | 92,675 | ||
| Number of steamships | 63 | 239 | 157 | ||
| Load capacity of the steamships | 27.401 | 108,427 | 66,319 | ||
| Total number of ships | 4550 | 1507 | 617 | ||
| Load capacity of all ships | 278.094 | 220.930 | 158.993 | ||
According to a French study of the Ottoman Black Sea ports, Burgas was the port with the largest turnover of goods after Trebizond in 1865 .
In 1894, 16 years after the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire, the Bulgarian government decided to build and expand the seaport in Burgas. When the port was opened, it included an area of 60 ha with 3 protective walls with a total length of 590 m and a depth of 7.3 m.
Until 1941, when the first two electromechanical harbor cranes from the Škoda company were installed on the harbor dock, goods were handled by dock workers who transported the goods on their backs through samari (bugl. Самари). On September 5, 1974, the port area was expanded to include the bulk goods port. Bulky goods of all kinds are handled here, including iron ore, solid fuels (coal, coke), metal waste, scrap and other raw materials. This made the port of Burgas the gateway for the resources of the Bulgarian heavy industry companies ( Kremikovzi , MDK Pirdop , Promet Debelt , Stomana Pernik etc.).
In 1963, 5.5 km (three nautical miles ) south of the main port, the oil port was built.
In 1980 the western port (Bulgarian пристанище “Запад”) was put into operation. He specializes in loading and unloading car transporters , bulk carriers and heavy lift carriers . The container terminal is also located there . Since the late 1990s, the port area has been further expanded, co-financed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). The first stage comprised Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 A, which is intended for the discharge of bulk materials, and was completed in 2005.
In June 2011 the Bulgarian government decided to concession the new bulk cargo port for 35 years . The Bulgarian Parachodstwo Balgarski morski flot (Bulgarian Параходство "Български морски флот", or BMF for short) will be the tenant of the facility. It has contractually agreed to invest 100.3 million euros in the facility and to repay the loan granted by JBIC.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ivan Karajotow, Stojan Rajtschewski, Mitko Iwanow: История на Бургас (on German, for example, History of the City of Burgas ), 2011, ISBN 978-954-92689-1-1 , p. 107
- ↑ Dnevnik newspaper : БМФ взема на концесия част от пристанище Бургас. June 8, 2011, Retrieved June 12, 2011 (Bulgarian).
