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Bulgaria's Varna Sea Port 9-mo Cargo Traffic Up 12%

Oct 4, 2011, 3:50:14 PMArticle by Dessislava Dimitrova
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SOFIA (Bulgaria), October 4 (SeeNews) – The Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna handled 6.7 million tonnes of cargo through September, up 12% on the year, the transport ministry in Sofia said on Tuesday.

Bulgaria's Varna Sea Port 9-mo Cargo Traffic Up 12%

In August alone, cargo traffic reached an all-time peak of 1.1 million tonnes, the ministry said in a statement.

The port's net profit for the first nine months of the year was 3.5 million levs ($2.4 million/1.8 million euro), the statement added, providing no comparative figure.

The state-owned port has two components: Varna East and Varna West.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)

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