Ivaylo Moskovski

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.

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.

A Chinese government delegation will visit the Bulgarian Black Sea ports of Varna and Burgas to study opportunities for investment in their transport infrastructure, the transport ministry in Sofia announced on Friday.

Bulgarian truck drivers are continuing the counter-blockades at checkpoints along the border with Greece.

Tensions at the border have been running high in the past four weeks as Greek farmers have been protesting against planned increases of tax and pension contributions by staging blockades.

Bulgaria would invest BGN 848 M, VAT excluded, in the first stage of the project for the construction of a third line of Sofia Metro, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said on Tuesday.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov estimated that BGN 5 B will be needed for the completion of two of the country's main motorways - Hemus and Struma as well as section of the I-1 (E-79 European route) in the country's northwest.

Borisov said this on Tuesday at the official opening ceremony of the by-pass around the town of Montana.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has departed for a visit to China with seven ministers for a meeting with the country's leadership and officials from Central and Eastern European states.

The city of Suzhou in Eastern China is due to host the Fourth leaders' meeting of China and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries on November 24-25.

Maritsa motorway in Bulgaria is now fully completed after the section between Orizovo and Dimitrovgrad was officially launched on Thursday.

Thus Maritsa has become the third fully completed motorway in Bulgaria after Trakia and Lyulin.

Maritsa has a total length of 117 km and is part of Pan-European Corridor IV.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski will launch on Thursday the BULRIS river information system monitoring the Bulgarian section of the Danube river.

The cost of the project, which was executed by the Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company, is estimated at BGN 37 M, Darik radio informs.