Moving Forward
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006 - Ivan Vatahov
Transport represents an intermediary link indispensable for the production of all sorts of goods and services, and this makes it of great importance to the economic development of any country. Bulgaria’s geographical location is suitable for the development of all types of transport: by river (via the Danube), by sea (via the Black Sea), by road, rail and air. Major transport routes cross the country, as does the read more 
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08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
German logistics company Schenker recently announced plans to build a 7.5 million euro logistics terminal near Bulgaria’s capital Sofia. The facility is designed to meet the increasing demand for logistics services in the country, the CEO of Schenker, Minko Vassilevski, said. “The investments include the purchase of land, the construction of the necessary infrastructure, the storage base and an office,” Vassilevski read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
Of all modes of transport, air transport is by far the one that has grown the most in Bulgaria over the past several years. The country has become a desired destination for many European tourists and holiday makers from other parts of the world. The boom in Bulgaria’s tourist industry has become the strongest factor for the development of the local aviation market.
Most of the largest European air carriers operate on the local market, including majors like British Airways, Lufthansa, Austrian, AlItalia, Aeroflot, Air France, KLM, CSA, Malev, Lot and others,
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08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
Integrators – this is how the companies providing express carriage and deliveries prefer to be referred to, TNT Bulgaria’s general manager Ivan Vassilev told Moving Forward. In his view, the international integrators in Bulgaria offer far more complicated and multifunctional services than the usual delivery of letters and parcels. A distinction should be made here, however, between international integrators and the two dozen or read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
The European Union is not something that will suddenly arrive in Bulgaria on January 1 2007 or on any other date. For many foreign businesses in this country, the union is already present in their operations. This is in what the team of Orbit, the Bulgarian subsidiary of the Greek international forwarding and moving company Orphee Beinoglou, believes. The company has been operating for 11 years on read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
Bulgaria’s railway network is state-owned, as is the largest and predominant operator that uses the rail network – the Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ). In the past 10 years, Bulgarian authorities have taken significant steps to improve the efficiency of the state railway system. Steps have included investments in infrastructure and rolling stock, major reductions in personnel and divestiture of almost all auxiliary read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
There are many challenges in the path of Bulgaria as an emerging economy and the sector that faces most of them is transport. For this reason, Bulgaria’s only English-language weekly newspaper, The Sofia Echo, has decided to publish Moving Forward, a special supplement dedicated to the transport sector and its key sub-sectors. While barely scratching the surface of an economy sector that is as large as as it is read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
The year 2005 was a very positive one for the performance of Volvo Trucks in Bulgaria, Andreas Wahlgren, managing director of Volvo Bulgaria, says with a smile. “I have been here since February 1 2005 and I can tell you that all the essential steps have been taken for the sustainable development of our company here in the Bulgaria.”
Wahlgren has been working for Volvo all his life in different read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006 - Lucy Cooper
Keep on trucking
Stefan Dimitrov, managing director of Allied Pickfords, spoke to Moving Forward about the business of moving in Bulgaria and beyond. Allied Pickfords international relocations specialists offer a full range of moving and relocation services, including: moving from and to Bulgaria, packing, fine arts certification, crating and shipping, temporary and long-term stroage and records management, as well as additional read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
The shipping and forwarding sector in Bulgaria is developing fast due to the strong drive from the main international players to enter the non-mature markets of the Black Sea countries. In order to retain this important position, however, Bulgaria has to do a lot more to improve its infrastructure, Nikolai Bozhilov, CEO of Unimasters Logistics Group, said in an interview with Moving Froward. Founded in the early days of read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
United Parcel Services (UPS), the world’s largest express carrier and package delivery company, announced in May plans to expand its operations in Bulgaria in view of the country’s forthcoming European Union accession and the rising demand in logistics and shipping services.
In Time, which represents UPS in Bulgaria, is expected to soon launch new services for transport and delivery of small parcels and big cargo, read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006 - Petar Kostadinov
Ivailo Zheglov is the man behind the International Sofia Motor Show for light and heavy commercial vehicles, which is to be held in Sofia’s Inter Expo Centre on June 9-18. Zheglov’s company, Expo Team, is the main partner of the Union of the Importers of Automobiles in Bulgaria (UIAB), which holds the licence for organising the Motor Expos in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. The partnership between Expo Team and the UIAB started read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
Roland Wiesinger is the managing director of Porsche Leasing Bulgaria Ltd, the company that provides the leasing services for all the models imported by Porsche Bulgaria. Porsche is typically associated with the famous sports cars, so for those who do not know, it will be interesting to find out that Porsche Bulgaria is the importer of all of the Volkswagen brands in Bulgaria, which includes Audi, Seat, Skoda, Volkswagen, read more
08:00 Mon 05 Jun 2006
They claim to be one of the fastest and most secure express carriers. The secret is that they are also the most famous walkers in the world. TNT Bulgaria just celebrated its 10th anniversary and the company is already looking to the future, where Bulgaria will be a European Union member and a place where competition among what they call integrators will be brought to a new level. According to Ivan Vassilev, read more
