{"id":8205,"date":"2011-04-13T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2011\/04\/13\/black-sea-strategy-reconsidered\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:40:16","slug":"black-sea-strategy-reconsidered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe\/black-sea-strategy-reconsidered\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sea strategy reconsidered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to extend the ports by building new container terminals in both Varna and Bourgas are, according to Kalina Tchikova of BPI, &#8220;undergoing a serious re-consideration&#8221;. One of the reasons, she said, is &#8220;due to the reduced volume of the cargo entering Black sea through Bosphorus Strait&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s more than one strand to the reasoning. At the moment, as Ms Tchikova of BPI explained, the turnover for 2010 in the Bulgaria\u2019s main Black sea ports \u2013 Varna and Bourgas \u2013 is about 150,000 teu, so the Black sea ports aren\u2019t yet working at full capacity. Ms Tchikova added, &#8220;even if we double this number, we would have the capacity to handle it and we would consider it a success&#8221;, but goes on to say that globally there are many facilities working below their capacity currently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to re-assess the pros and cons and proceed accordingly,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish port expansion and the nautical restrictions of the Bosphorus Strait limiting the access to the Black Sea is making Bulgaria\u2019s Ports Infrastructure Company (BPI) rethink its investment strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8207,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8205\/revisions\/8207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}