Burgas Is Building a Bigger Port. It Cannot Find the People to Run the One It Has.
Terminal Burgas EAD is midway through an €18 million expansion that will raise nominal container capacity to 600,000 TEU by late 2026. Two new post-Panamax...
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Terminal Burgas EAD is midway through an €18 million expansion that will raise nominal container capacity to 600,000 TEU by late 2026. Two new post-Panamax...
Southeast Europe's largest refinery sits in a Bulgarian coastal city of 200,000 people. Lukoil Neftochim Burgas processes 196,000 barrels per day, accounts for...
Burgas Airport processed roughly 2.5 million passengers in 2024. Fraport Twin Star is spending €18 million to expand apron capacity and upgrade baggage...
Bulgaria's Danubian Plain has received more investment in export infrastructure over the past three years than in the previous two decades combined. New rail...
The Hemus Motorway extension is cutting transit time between Pleven and Sofia to ninety minutes. Heavy goods vehicle throughput is set to rise by 15 to 20 per...
Pleven's light manufacturing and metalworking sector employs roughly 3,000 people across more than 200 business entities. By most aggregate measures, it looks...
Plovdiv Oblast's food and beverage processors exported €892 million worth of product in Q4 2024, with 68% bound for the EU and 22% heading to MENA markets. The...
Between 2022 and 2024, the Trakia Economic Zone attracted 1.5 billion BGN in foreign direct manufacturing investment. Plovdiv's modern logistics stock now...
Plovdiv's Trakia Economic Zone contributed approximately 1.8% of Bulgaria's national GDP in 2023, with over 50 manufacturing enterprises exporting 85% of their...
Bulgaria adopted the Euro on 1 January 2025. For Ruse's small but stable cluster of software houses and BPO providers, the move was supposed to eliminate...
Port Ruse is in the middle of a €12.4 million terminal expansion funded by the EU's Connecting Europe Facility. By mid-2026, container storage capacity will...
Ruse's two industrial zones now host more than €57 million in confirmed expansion projects from Monbat, Liebherr, and Schneider Electric. New lithium-ion...
Bulgaria's outsourcing sector generated approximately €4.8 billion in revenue in 2023. Sofia accounted for 73% of the sector's employment. Between 68,000 and...
Sofia ranks third in Europe for IT professionals per capita. The city's fintech sector employs between 12,000 and 15,000 people directly, with another 8,000 to...
Sofia's ICT sector added between 6,000 and 8,000 net new technology positions in 2024. Broadcom's acquisition of VMware released 400 to 500 engineers from what...
Bulgaria's Maritsa Iztok complex still generates roughly 28 to 30 per cent of the country's electricity. The basin's four major employers collectively maintain...
The Thracian Plain surrounding Stara Zagora produced 18% more wheat and 22% more sunflower in 2024 than it did four years earlier. The grain silos at Radnevo...
Stara Zagora's industrial zone added €42 million in new manufacturing investment in 2024. A German automotive cable systems plant and a Turkish metal...
Varna's northern Black Sea coast entered 2026 with renovated lobbies, upgraded spa facilities, and premium all-inclusive concepts designed to shift the region...
Varna's information technology sector now contributes roughly 12% of the city's GDP. That figure stood at 8% in 2019. Between those two numbers sits a...
Bulgaria is building a port it may not be able to staff. The €194 million infrastructure programme targeting Varna's rail electrification, motorway completion,...
Veliko Tarnovo's Tsarevets Fortress received 620,000 visitors in 2023. That figure exceeded the site's recommended carrying capacity by 170,000. The fortress...
Veliko Tarnovo's technology sector employs roughly 1,800 to 2,200 professionals across 45 to 60 companies. For a city of its size, in a country whose IT export...
Veliko Tarnovo's furniture workshops, metalworking subcontractors, and food processors entered 2026 with order backlogs stretching four to six months. German...
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