Ivaylo Moskovski

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has said no flights scheduled from Sofia to Brussels are to take place as of the moment.

Speaking to reporters, he has added a en emergency meeting presided by Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova on Tuesday afternoon will be held to establish whether the level of security alert should be raised.

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said that Iran has readiness to develop a transport corridor through Bulgaria

Moskovski said this at the transport parliamentary committee on Wednesday, Focus news agency informs.

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has ordered the suspension of public procurement procedures for the construction of port and railway infrastructure.

The halted tenders concern the Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company and the National Railway Infrastructure Company.

Iran and Bulgaria need to establish banking and insurance ties and expand tourism and transportation links, the country's Transport Minister Abbas Akhoundi has said.

He has also noted Iranian railways could be connected to the railway network of Bulgaria via Turkey.

Bulgarian road carriers on Wednesday said they will set up a permanent "counter-blockade" on the border with Greece unless farmers on the other side of the border end their protest.

Their announcement was made by Bulgaria's Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski in a press conference at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing.

Protesters have renewed blockade at two of the checkpoints along the border between Bulgaria and Greece.

The Kulata-Promachonas and Ilinden-Exochi checkpoints are closed to trucks, the interior ministry informs.

The blockade at Ilinden was staged at 22 o'clock (EET) on Tuesday, while Kulata was closed at 5 o'clock on Wednesday.

According to Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski, the losses arising from the latest blockade staged by Greek farmers on the border with Bulgaria will exceed EUR 10 M.

In an interview for private bTV station on Tuesday, Moskovski reminded that Greek farmers have been staging illegal blockades at the border with Bulgaria several times since 2007.

Vehicles are moving both ways through the Bulgaria-Greece border at all crossing points as of Sunday evening, Bulgaria's Interior Ministry has said.

The development follow a month of blockades set up by protesting Greek farmers along their country's borders and nearly a week of a "counter-blockade" staged by Bulgarian transit truck drivers in response.

Commercial transit trucks are backed up several kilometers at on the Macedonian side of the border with Bulgaria, the Interior Ministry has said.

Macedonia is now considered an alternative route as the blockade at the Bulgaria-Greece border continues.

A 'counter-blockade' set up by Bulgarian transit truck drivers on the border with Greece has entered its fifth day in response to protests of Greek farmers who have kept key border crossings largely sealed off for nearly a month.