The participants in the 62 nd international tourist regatta along the Danube River are expected to arrive in the Bulgarian town of Vidin. The regatta started out from Ingolstadt in Germany in June and will end in September in the river’s..
Because of the low level of the Danube, five shallow sections have formed and ship-owners can not use the full capacity of their vessels, head of Rousse River Directorate to the Maritime Administration Agency Ivan Zhekov has reported. Through the..
Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev and President of the Chamber of Deputies in Romania, Liviu Dragnea, agreed at a meeting in Bucharest that the two countries would work to create a Charter with common measures and projects for the development of the..
Danube River cruises continue to be hit among tourists and their number has increased over the years. A total of 181 cruise ships arrived in the port of Vidin during the 2016 tourist season. The first cruise ship for this year docked in Vidin on March..
This morning the ice formation on the Danube and the huge ice blocks stopped the river flow completely in the region of Rousse. At this time there are no ships in distress, the city’s maritime administration says. There are several towed..
The Bulgarian Border Police have reported that because of ice formation on the Danube, ferry crossings have stopped operating and traffic of trucks leaving the country at the Bulgarian-Romanian border is extremely intense. At the checkpoint of Danube..
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..
