FERRYBOAT COMPLEX VARNA –

POSSIBILITIES AND PROSPECTIVES

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The ferryboat complex Varna was built in 1978 at the west coast of Beloslav lake, in 30 km from Varna. It has two piers with total length of 400 m and depth of 8,7 m. The complex serves ferry boats and RO-RO ships on the following lines: Varna – Ilichevsk (Ukraine) – Poti/ Batumi (Georgia) and Varna – port Caucasus (Russia). The complex is connected with the national railway and road network.

The Bulgarian three-decker ferry boats for carriage of goods in wagons, vehicles and passengers “The Heroes of Odessa” and “The Heroes of Sevastopol” were built in 1978 in Norway. They are equipped with a lift with capacity of 170 t (2 wagons), an universal shunting locomotive, supporting devices – jacks and turnbuckles. The total length of the railway track onboard is 1692 m, the transportation capacity: 108 standard 70-ton wagons (totally 7560 t), from which on the upper deck – 43 wagons (3010 t), on the intermediate deck – 49 wagons (3430 t) and on the below deck – 16 wagons (1120 t). The crew is 29 people. The ferryboats have a hotel part with 95 places for the passengers and the crew.

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HISTORY

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The ships provide the opportunity for simultaneous combined transportations of goods in wagons, trucks, containers, other deck

loads and automobiles.

CONNECTIONS The railway ferry line Varna – Ilichevsk was established when the economic relations between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union were very active and the trade between them was significant. It started operating on 14 November 1978, providing the opportunity for alternative and more efficient transportation without transshipment between two countries with different track gauge.

From 1999, after the signature of the Trilateral Agreement between the Governments of Bulgaria, Ukraine and Georgia on joint exploitation of direct ferry service Varna – Ilichevsk – Poti/ Batumi, the Ferryboat complex Varna is also connected with the Georgian ports Poti and Batumi.

In 2009 was established the direct railway ferry line Varna – port Caucasus connecting the Republic of Bulgaria with the Russian Federation.

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DOBRINISHTE

SANDANSKIGENERAL TODOROV

PETRICH

BLAGOEVGRAD

DUPNICA

KJUSTENDILGJUESHEV

O

BOBOV DOL

RADOMIR

SOFIABANKJA PODUJAN

EISKAR MUSASHEVO

CHUKUROVOVAKAREL PANAGJURISTE

KOSTENEC

SEPTEMVRI TRAKIJAWARWARA STAMBOLIJSKI

PLOVDIV

PESHTERA

MANOLE BELOZEM

ORIZOVO CHIRPAN

SVOBODACHERNA GORA

ASENOVGRAD HASKOVO

SIMEONOVGRAD

DIMITROVGRAD

SVILENGRAD

KARDZHALI

PODKOVA

ELHOVO

СТАРА ЗАГОРА ХАН

АСПАРУХ

JAMBOL

ZIMNICA

НОВА ЗАГОРА

КЕРМЕН

STRALDZA

СЛИВЕН ТВЪРДИЦА

ДЪБОВО ТУЛОВО

КАRNOBAT

AJTOS

BURGAS VLADIMIR PAVLOV

POMORIE

KAZANLAK

KALOFER

KARLOVO

HISARJA

KLISURAРА PIRDOP

KOPRIVSHIZA ZLATICA

SOFIJA SEVER VOLUJAK

PERNIK

BOLSHEVIK

DRAGOMAN

KALOTINA

STANJANZI

SVOGE

MEZDRAVRACA

ROMANZLATNA PANEGA

CHERVEN BRJAG

BERKOVICA

MONTANA

BOJCHINOVCI

BRUSARCI

LOMDIMOVO

ORESHEC

VIDIN

Koshava

ORJAHOVO

JASEN

CHERKVICA

PLEVEN

TROJAN

BELENESVISHTOVORESH

LEVSKI

PAVLIKENI

POLSKI TRAMBESH

BOROVO

DVE MOGILI

IVANOVO

BJALA

RUSE

RAZGRAD

SAMUIL

SILISTRA

GORNA ORJAHOVICA

СТРАЖИЦА

ЕЛЕНА

ZAREVA LIVADA

GABROVO

VELIKO TARNOVO

POPOVO

TARGOVISHTE

PRESLAVHAN KRUM

SHUMEN

NOVI PAZAR

KASPICHAN

BELOSLAV

POVELJANOVOSINDEL

PROVADIJA

DALGOPOLKOMUNARI

STARO ORJAHOVO

DOBRICH

KARDAM

VARNA

Turkey

Greece

Greece

Serbia Ukraine

Black sea

CONNECTIONSRomania

Georgia

Russia

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE FERRYBOAT COMPLEX VARNA

The complex has two piers with total length of 400 m and depth of 8,7 m, equipped with transitional bridges, each of which with 5 tracks with gauge of 1520 mm. Ferry boats loaded with 108 wagons are handled for 8 hours, ferry boats loaded with 45 wagons – for 2 hours. The complex has a capacity for a simultaneous handling of two ships and also for handling of two types of ships – with width 26 and 22 m.

TRANSITIONAL BRIDGE

Length – 40 m; Width from the side of the ferry boat – 18,5 m; Width from the side of the ferryboat complex – 8,6 m; Weight – 300 t.

WORKSHOP FOR CHANGING BOGIES The ferryboat complex Varna is the only place in the Black Sea region with possibility for

changing wagon bogies from European (1435 mm) to Russian standard (1520 mm) gauge. The workshop is equiped with two universal tracks, with 12 positions each. It has

the capacity for changing the bogies of 280 wagons per day.

Track for changing bogies of wagons loaded with dangerous goods – with universal track gauge and 2 positions with anti-explosion jacks. The handling capasity is 20

wagons per day.

TRANSSHIPMENT POINT Technical capacity for direct transshipment of 80 wagons per day

Open site 2 tracks with gauge of 1435 mm and2 tracks with gauge of 1520 mmserved by electric forklift with lifting capacity of 20 t

Covered ramp with1 track with gauge of 1435 mm and 1 track with gauge of 1520 mm

Open rampwith1 track with gauge of 1435 mm and 1 track with gauge of 1520 mm

Storing facilitiesOpen and covered storehouses registred as storehouses under customs supervision.

TRANSPORT SERVICES RENDERED BY THE FERRYBOAT COMPLEX

Ferry lines served Varna - Ilichevsk Varna – Ilichevsk – Poti/ Batumi Varna – Caucasus

Combined transports: Transport of goods in wagons Transport of trucks/ semi-trailers Transport of container Other deck loads and automobiles

Services Mooring and unmooring of ferry boats and accompanying port services; Change of the wagon bogies from gauge 1520 mm to gauge 1435 mm for wagons

for import and from gauge 1435 mm to gauge 1520 mm for wagons for export; Transshipment, loading and unloading of wagons by various technologies: wagon

– wagon, truck-wagon, ramp – wagon, wagon – ramp; Storage of goods in a storehouses registered under customs supervision; Other services.

REPORTING DATA FOR 2015

Volume of the goods transported through the ferryboat complex Varna in 2015: - import – 140 340 t - export - 39 857 t - totally– 180 197 tIncluding:1. Railway ferry line Varna - Caucasus:- import – 124 125 t (LPG, oils and lubricants, petroleum waste, fertilizers, chemicals,

glass and other building materials and food products); - export and transit – 33 609 t (cables, bentonite, food products, equipment, refractory

cement, wooden panels, cosmetics, glucose, base oils, polyethylene).Totally – 157 734 t

2. Railway ferry line Varna – Ilichevsk – Poti/ Batumi:- import – 16 215 t (LPG, ferroalloys, fertilizers, automobiles BELAZ, glass,

equipment);- export – 6 248 t (metals, cans, cigarettes, sugar, pipes, glass).Totally – 22 463 t

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