Bulgaria To Call Tender for Danube Freight Terminal

Details on the conditions of the tender will be made public after the government decision is published in the State Gazette, the government said in a statement, providing no further details.

In 2006, Bulgaria scrapped the tender for a 30-year operating concession on the Somovit freight terminal after the Supreme Administrative Court overturned the cabinet's choice for the concession.

In June 2005, Bulgaria selected domestic firm Oktopod-S after the firm outbid six other Bulgarian companies and one Cyprus-registered in the tender.

The Somovit tender is part of the plan of Bulgaria's previous government to award concessions on nearly two dozen of the country's river and sea ports and freight terminals, aiming to modernise them and enhance their business operations.