River monitoring experts have called for limiting shipping on the Danube and advised ship owners to stop shipping as ice drift in the Bulgarian stretch of the river has already reached 60 percent. According to Captain Ivan Zhekov, head of Maritime..
Because of the cold spell over Bulgaria and most of Europe some 50 percent of the Danube River at Silistra consists of drifting ice, it has been reported. The ice does not hamper vessels yet. However, if weather remained this cold and ice increased,..
This is my first visit to Bulgaria, but in the course of few hours only I have understood why it is a favorite destination of Romanian tourists, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration Vasile Dîncu at a..
There is no immediate threat of a spread of the Zika virus carried by mosquitoes, said in parliament Bulgarian Health Minister Petre Moskov. There are neither confirmed Zika cases in this country, nor any potential threat of the virus, figures from..
Bulgarian company "Bulgartransgas" and its Romanian partner "Transgaz" have signed an addendum to a contract from April that concerns the construction of the gas interconnector under the Danube. A planned back-up gas pipeline in addition to the main..
The state gas companies of Bulgaria and Romania have ended the contract with the companies that previously had to drill into the Danube, because they could not cope with the technical challenges of the terrain. Thus the tender procedure will be resumed...
