Prompt Bulgaria the enterprises Austrians to invest in the ports of the Danube



Taking part today to Vienna Economic Forum, in course to Sofia, the minister of the Transports and the communications of Bulgaria, Ivaylo Moskovski, it has wished that the investor Austrians demonstrate interest to acquire concessions in order to develop the Bulgarian ports on the Danube.

"Until now - the minister has declared - it has been an optimal cooperation with the investor Austrians and I hope that in future their interest in our Country will become always greater". Moskovski has remembered in particular the participation of enterprises Austrians in the works of modernization of the railway lines Septemvri-Plovdiv and Dimitrovgrad-Svilengrad.

"We are working - it has continued the holder of the Bulgarian ministry - to a contract series of concession for the ports on the Danube, between which Rousse, Vidin, Lom, Nikopol and Tutrakan. Given to the importance of the Danube for Austria, the hope it is that these structures can attract investments from this nation".

"To attract investments foreign countries - Ivaylo Moskovski has explained - it is one of the main priorities of our government. Our final objective for Bulgaria is that of having a field of the transports modern and competitive. Where possible we work actively in order to absorb deep the Europeans, but they are whereby not previewed deep for the development of the sites is need to find another way in order to retrieve the resources financial institutions. Such mechanism is constituted by the public-private partnership and, in particular, the concessions". The minister has found that such possibility above all represents a good alternative for the Bulgarian airports and ports, that it guarantees a cooperation in the long term while the State maintains the property of infrastructures.

Moskovski has sottolinato that Bulgaria has covered all the roads in order to increase the interest of the investor regarding these infrastructures: "we have introduced our sites in all the international encounters and today they are object of the interest of important investor a lot". In particular, the minister has cited the example of the interest manifested from Qatar for the airport of Balchik, on the Black Sea: "we have all the reasons in order to hope - it has asserted - that this leads in the long term to an agreement that it will make of Balchik an airport of national and regional importance".