CLIENTS
There are some specific conditions for approaching port of Varna West. The port is located at the west end of Varna water basin comprising the lakes of Varna and Beloslav together with the linking canals. Ships can navigate these canals (No. 1 and No. 2) in one direction only with limited speed. Ships can pass each other in Varna Lake where anchorage for waiting is available. Also, these is a limitation on the air draught of vessels, because Canal No. 1 goes under Asparuhov Bridge. Charges for navigation in canals are collected by the State Company Port Infrastructure.
Main features:
Length of fairway (up to Varna West): 14 nautical miles
Transit time: 1.5 hours
Max speed: 6 knots
Max air draught: 41.5 m
Canal No. 1
Length: 2 nautical miles
Max draught: 11.5 m
Canal No. 2
Length: 5 nautical miles
Max draught: 10.5 m
Port of Varna provides easy and convenient access to the national road network. It takes only a minute to get from Varna East to Asparuhov Bridge which is part of Road E-87 connecting Varna with Burgas and proceeding to the border with Turkey.
The lakeside road can be used by the trucks to move quickly (10 minutes) from Varna East to other important trunk
roads: the “Hemus” highway (Varna-Sofia) and Road E-70 (Varna-Russe).
Distances by road from Varna to some destinations in Bulgaria:
| Sofia | 470 km |
| Burgas | 132 km |
| Russe | 200 km |
| Plovdiv | 398 km |
| Vidin | 532 km |
.... and in Europe.
| Belgrade | 855 km |
| Budapest | 1245 km |
| Vienna | 1490 km |
| Istanbul | 515 km |
All berths of Port of Varna EAD have access to Bulgaria’s rail network. This fact provides excellent opportunities to develop combined transport modes. Apart from Port of Varna, there is another major partner in the transport chain: the National Company “BDZ” (Bulgarian Railways). The company offers:
- transport service to all types of cargo (incl. conventional, liquid, dangerous)
- container service (company’s own terminals in Russe and Sofia)
- combined transportat of RO-LA type
- transportation of perishables and INTERFRIGO goods
- specialized block-trains and transportation of intermodal cargo units (UTI service).
Distances by rail from Varna to some destinations in Bulgaria...
| Sofia | 520 km |
| Russe | 219 km |
| Kulata | 751 km |
| Plovdiv | 390 km |
| Stara Zagora | 289 km |
| Vratsa | 458 km |
| Gorna Oriahovitsa | 232 km |
.... and in Europe
| Belgrade | 945 km |
| Budapest | 1287 km |
| Vienna | 1575 km |
| Skopje | 897 km |
Varna Airport is the second largest international airport of Bulgaria situated at 10 km away from the city center. It is a point of intersection for over 96 destinations and it serves mostly the tourist traffic to Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
The airport has a reliable and convenient runway where the world’s largest and most modern aircraft have landed – the freight airplane AN 124 (Ruslan) and the giant Boeing 747.
