Port of Varna

Coordinates: 43°11′32″N 27°54′26″E / 43.19222°N 27.90722°E / 43.19222; 27.90722
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Port of Varna
tonnes (2020) [1]
Annual container volume160,000 TEU's (Varna-West, 2018)
Annual revenueEUR 26 million (2020) [1]
Website
Port-Varna.bg

Port of Varna (

Varna International Airport
.

Overview

There are two anchorages at Varna roadstead: summer and winter. If violent northeasterly wind and wave conditions make the anchorages hazardous, a foul weather anchorage is available west of the 70 m (230 ft) high Cape Kaliakra 26 nautical miles (48 km) east-northeast of Varna.

Frozen sea in Varna

Two inland canals connect the sea and Port of Varna East with Lake Varna, Lake Beloslav and Port of Varna West: Channel 1 with draft 11.5 m and Channel 2 with draft 11.0 m. The canals form an island (Острова) on which a deepwater oil terminal, among other port facilities, is currently located. The depths of the ship

Norwegian Dream
cruise ship (220 m in length, 50,700 gross tons).

Port of Varna offers full service: loading,

stevedoring, freight forwarding, storage and various intermodal
services.

East terminal [2]

  • 14 berths
  • 2,345 m berth
  • 97,600 m2 open storage
  • 41,258 m2 covered storage

West terminal

  • 22 berths
  • 3,430 m berth
  • 346,393 m2 open storage
  • 37,806 m2 covered storage
  • 10,000 m3 liquid storage
The port in 1960s

It has a well-forked railway and road network. The existing port facilities allow the handling of practically all kinds of solid bulk, break-bulk, containerized and some liquid-bulk cargoes.

Principal exports include urea, soda ash, cement, clinker, silica, fertilisers, grain, containers and ro-ro. Principal imports are coal, metals, ores and ore concentrates, oil, phosphates, timber, molasses, containers and ro-ro.

Since 2006, Port of Varna serves as a hub for BP and German wind turbine manufacturer Saga.

In 2008, the port posted a 57% growth in overall tonnage handled, and at times in late summer it was stretched beyond capacity, due to redirected cargo from striking ports in the region and the year's record export of wheat from northeastern Bulgaria.

Future plans

The updated general plan for the Port of Varna to 2020 was approved in 1999. Major projects for new construction, reconstruction and modernization include: a deepwater container terminal and a ro-ro terminal on the island under the

Asparuhov most
bridge, a grain terminal on the north shore of Lake Varna south of the Dry Port storage base, a liquid chemicals terminal and a cement and clinker terminal at Varna West, and modernization of the passenger and ro-ro terminals at Varna East.

In 2007, new plans were disclosed to relocate the container terminal from Varna East to a new larger basin on the northeastern shore of Lake Varna and to redevelop old port Varna East, located in the city centre, into a large marine attractions zone with a new cruise terminal, yacht marina, apartments, hotels, restaurants, museums, exhibitions, shopping, and other tourist facilities.

In 2008, plans were disclosed for another deepwater container terminal on the south side of the island for vessels carrying over 2500 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).

A liquified petroleum gas terminal is also being developed at Beloslav. Amidst the gas crisis of early 2009, discussions started of a new liquified natural gas terminal on 30 hectares (74 acres), possibly on the northwestern shore of Lake Varna at Ezerovo.

Also in 2008, discussions were resumed (suspended in 1981) for a 192 km long navigable canal

Rousse–Varna connecting the lower river Danube
with the Varna lakes and the Black Sea, but this enterprise is still considered economically unfeasible and utopian by many.

Other existing port terminals include the Cruise Terminal; Petrol, LesPort, and Varna Thermal Power Plant (handling oil, timber, and coal respectively); the Railroad Ferry Terminal, which is not part of the complex, is located on the south shore of Lake Beloslav opposite Varna West.

In June 2023 the European Investment Bank signed an agreement with Logistic Centre Varna EAD for a €50 million loan to co-finance a new grain terminal at the Black Sea port of Varna, expected to be operational in 2026.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Annual Financial Report" (PDF) (in Bulgarian). Port Varna. Retrieved 2022-06-25.
  2. ^ "Port of Varna Branch". Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  3. ^ "InvestEU: EIB extends €50 million loan for a new grain terminal at Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Varna". 27 June 2023.

External links

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