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14 March 2006
EU Cash To Upgrade Bulgaria's Transport Infrastructure
Almost two billion euro is expected to come
to Bulgaria from EU funds
for the period 2007-13. The money will be used for repair works
of all first-class roads and railway lines between Sofia
and the Black Sea coast. The money will also be used for granting on concession
the Trakia, Maritsa, Struma and Cherno More highways as well as all Bulgarian
airports except the one in Sofia.
According to an action plan presented by Gagauzov, one billion euro is expected
to come from the EU Cohesion Fund. The fund aims at helping countries reach
EU standards. The money will be used for reparation works of nine roads
and the ring roads of Montana, Vratsa and Gabrovo cities. With 1.5 billion
euro for the fund, the Government expects to modernise the railway lines
between Sofia-Pernik-Radomir; Sofia-Dragoman; Mezdra-Gorna Oriahovitsa and
Parvomai-Svilengrad.
The construction of all highways will continue except for the Hemus highway,
connecting Sofia with the Black Sea city of Varna. According to officials
from the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, the last 118km
of the Trakia highway will cost 250 million euro. The Trakia highway connects
Sofia with the Black Sea city of Bourgas. Part of the Trakia construction
includes the construction of Sofia’s south ring road.
For the 96km of the Cherno More highway between Varna and Bourgas, the prognoses
envisage 317 million euro. The most expensive highway will be the Struma
highway between Sofia and Kulata, Bulgaria’s main border checkpoint
with Greece. The 160km are expected to cost close to 676 million euro.
Mutafchiev also presented his ideas for concessions on March 5 when his
ministry published a strategy for development of Bulgarian ports. Thirty-two
Bulgarian ports will be offered to investors within the framework of concession
schemes.
The four largest Bulgarian ports in Varna,
Bourgas, Rousse and
Lom (the latter two on the Danube) will be split into smaller units according
to a territorial principle. The smaller ports in Nessebar, Sozopol and Ahtopol
(on the Black Sea) and Tutrakan and Silistra (on the Danube), will be offered
on concession.
Seven new ports will be built according to the strategy. Five new ports,
including a container, a grain terminal, a liquid cargo terminal, a hazardous
cargo terminal and a passenger terminal will be located on shores of the
Varna Lake and in the Varna Bay. The grain terminal would allow the transportation
of large quantities of grain from Hungary through Rousse to Varna.
A new container terminal will be built in
Bourgas. The seventh new port project will be on the Danube.
All new projects will employ the BOT - build, operate, transfer - principle
and will use state-owned land. A total of 25 million tones of cargo were
processed at Bulgarian Black Sea ports in 2005. Bulk cargo accounts for
11 million tones. The volume of containers was estimated at 1.8 million
tones, but this kind of cargo has witnessed a major growth of 28 percent
compared to the preceding year. River ports have processed a total of 3.6
million tones of cargo. Per the strategy, the Romanian port of Constanca
and the Greek port of Thessalonica are the major competitors to the Bulgarian
ports sector.
Promoting Bulgaria
There are many ways - some traditional, some alternative - to promote Bulgaria
as a tourist destination, with various original undertakings being demonstrated
since the beginning of the month.
The first to embark on a different approach was the national flag carrier
Bulgaria Air, which on March
1 launched a series of initiatives to present Bulgaria to the world.
The company management and Transport Minister Petar Mutafchiev announced
the start of a project entitled The Spirit of Bulgaria on Board Bulgaria
Air.
On March 1, the Bulgaria Air planes were decorated with “martenitsi”
- red and white tassels believed to bring health and good luck - that Bulgarians
traditionally exchange on the date. All passengers were acquainted with
the tradition and each given a martenitsa.
However, the project did not end with the red-and-white decorations. Throughout
the campaign, there will be a series of one-month events focusing on various
aspects of the Bulgarian identity - the national cultural and historical
heritage, the Bulgarian language, sports, nature, Bulgaria’s faces
and others.
The events will be implemented through changing the outside decoration of
the aircraft and organising special experiences on board the planes. This
way the message will get directly to 40 000 passengers a month, and hundreds
of thousands of foreigners, who will see the planes at airports all around
the world, will get it indirectly.
According to Zlatin Surustov, executive director of Bulgaria Air, wherever
they are, with this carrier Bulgarian nationals will feel closer to and
more frequently at home. In his words, the company is Bulgaria’s natural
envoy, and the ambition of its management is that their aircraft turn into
a kind of a visit card Bulgaria presents to the rest of the world.
Furthermore, Bulgaria Air is the initiator and sponsor of the Days of Bulgarian
Culture in Rome. The company’s participation consists of providing
transport for Bulgarian performers, the stage property and cultural artefacts.
“I believe that similar initiatives, directed by the company’s
management, will not only help raise the image of the carrier at its privatisation
but will also be instrumental in the attainment of the great goals it has
set itself: more destinations and more customers for this new and small
but stable company,” Mutafchiev said.
In his view, the initiative gets off ground at the right time - on the eve
of Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union (EU), which would give
the EU citizens the opportunity to get familiar with the country in advance.
Bulgaria Air said it would operate flights to new destinations in the summer
season: Sofia-Dublin (Ireland) and Milan (Italy)-Varna (on the Black Sea).
The service to Dublin will be opened in April, and at the
beginning of the summer season the flights will be between Dublin and the
Bulgarian Black Sea airports (Varna and Bourgas). A
new service between London and Bourgas will be operated in the summer, too.
Another opportunity for bringing Bulgaria closer to foreign holidaymakers
is already being provided by Bulgaria’s second largest GSM operator,
GloBul.
The company and the Bulgaria in Miniature project (that has so far hosted
an exhibition of miniature copies of Bulgarian historical and cultural buildings)
have started their co-operation with the launch of a mobile guide of the
most significant historical, cultural and natural landmarks in Bulgaria.
Via the Bulgaria in Miniature Mobile Guide (called Bulgaria Na Dlan, translating
as “Bulgaria in your palm”), Bulgarian and foreign tourists
will have access to mobile telephone lines with comprehensive information
about the most important historical monuments and natural phenomena.
Signboards with the respective numbers at the sites will inform tourists
of the info-line numbers of in Bulgarian and English. The info hotlines
will be accessible from anywhere in Bulgaria for all GloBul subscribers
at 1.20 leva (about 0.60 euro), VAT included, for a call. GloBul would donate
all revenue from the hot lines to the further development of the Bulgaria
in Miniature project, the mobile operator said.
Turnovgrad (now called Veliko Turnovo), the capital of Bulgaria between
the 12th and 14th century; Arbanassi (on one of the hills around Veliko
Turnovo), known for the legendary collection of murals in the Nativity Church;
and the Black Sea’s Kaliakra Cape are the first historical monuments
included in the mobile guide initiative.
The project authors, Sunny Suninski and Stefani Racheva, elected the first
three sites as symbols of the history, the invincible spirit and faith of
Bulgarians.
The respective mobile numbers are: for Turnovgrad - 1300 001 in Bulgarian
and 1300 002 in English; for Arbanassi - 1300 003 in Bulgarian and 1300
004 in English; and for Kaliakra Cape - 1300 005 in Bulgarian and 1300 006
in English.
A total of 20 sights of the capital Sofia will be included in the mobile
guide by Easter, and by June some 50 sights from all over the country are
expected to become part of the project.
However, the crown for the most alternative way of alternatively promoting
Bulgaria as a tourist destination did not originate in Bulgaria.
More than 60 000 Germans paid a virtual visit to the north-western Bulgarian
town of Vratsa at http://visit.vratza.com/ in the end of February due to
a radio quiz of the German Antenne Bayern radio.
The radio announced a prize of 80 000 euro for the listener who first translated
into English or German the Greek word “orivasia”, which means
climbing. Hundreds of thousands of listeners rushed to find the translation.
Those who had access to the internet googled the word and so came across
the Greek version of Vratsa’s site with a description of the rock
gorge Vratsata (doorway), from which Vratsa takes its name.
Peak time the visits exceeded 300 a second, the total reaching 66 140 at
the end of the day. The site received dozens of letters where the German
entrants in the radio game expressed their amazement with beauty of the
place and asked for directions on how to reach it.
The discovery of the site triggered discussions in hundreds of internet
forums in Germany where users argued that the word was most probably Bulgarian
and denoted the name of a resort or town in Bulgaria.
Awed by the beauty of Bulgarian nature, the mountain climbers who virtually
visited Vratsa wanted to come and see it in person as well.
IBAN Introduced in Bulgaria From June 5 2006
The
Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) launched on March 1 an awareness campaign
for the introduction of the IBAN standard.
The IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
format will become effective on June 5 2006, and after this
date all local payments and transfers from Bulgaria will be made from client
IBAN accounts, said Dimitar Kostov, deputy governor of BNB.
The new bank account numbers will have 22 symbols instead of the current
10 and will feature letters along with the figures.
On March 1, all Bulgarian banks started replacing the numbers of the more
than six million accounts used by companies and individuals to date.
This account number would guarantee the security, speed and quality of local
and international bank transfers, said Levon Hampartzoumian, executive director
of Bulbank and head of Bulgaria’s Association of Commercial Banks,
said.
IBAN is a client account number aligned with ISO 13616. The IBAN concept
was developed by the European Committee for Banking Standards and the International
Organisation for Standardisation.
The concept is recognised internationally as ISO 13616:2003. The Bulgarian
Institute for Standardisation has adopted it as BDS ISO 13616:2004.
All European Union member countries use the IBAN standard. It was in use
in 42 countries by the end of January, of which 10 were using it for internal
payments as well.
Bulgaria will be the last Balkan country to introduce the IBAN.
The application of the IBAN in Bulgaria is set out in Ordinance 13 of the
BNB and is generated to each customer account only by the servicing bank.
IBAN allows easier payment processing and helps decrease the number of incorrectly
effected transfers. IBAN improves efficiency, promptness and quality of
effected domestic and international transfers, providing a greater degree
of security.
Upon acceptance of an order for a domestic transfer and for a transfer to
a country which applies IBAN standard, each bank, by using the Check Digit,
conducts checks as to the accuracy of specified account numbers of the payer
and beneficiary (even if the beneficiary is a customer of another bank).
The risk of a delay or rejection of a payment due to inaccuracy diminishes
as beneficiary accounts are to be credited only using IBAN.
To facilitate customers, between March 1 and June 5, banks will ex-officio
inform several institutions about the new IBAN accounts of their customers,
namely the Finance Ministry, the National Revenue Agency and the National
Social Security Institute.
Although assigned in March, the new account numbers will be activated as
of 5 June and cannot be used before that date.
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Ref: 15589
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Location: Bansko
Ref: 15630
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Completion: November 2005
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Ref: 16546
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Completion: August 2006
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Ref: 15630
Price: £44,322 - €65,153
Completion: November 2005
Details: Beds: 1 | Baths: 1 | Built M2 59 | Plot: M2 -- | Pool: No | Garage: Parking
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Ref: 15960
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Ref: 16549
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Ref: 16610
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Ref: 15444
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Details: Beds: 1 | Baths: 1 | Built M2 150 | Plot: M2 1500 | Pool: No | Garage: No
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