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Railways
- See also: Bulgarian State Railways
- total: 4,294 km (2005)
Railway links with adjacent countries
Motorways
Cherno More motorway - Varna to Burgas
Hemus motorway - Sofia-Yablanitsa and Varna-Shumen
Lyulin motorway - Sofia to Pernik- Struma motorway - Sofia to Thessaloniki
Trakiya motorway - Sofia to Burgas
Highways
Highways and Motorways in Bulgaria
- - Varna to Burgas (in construction)
- - Sofia to Varna (in construction)
- - Sofia to Burgas (in construction)
- - Sofia to Pernik (in construction)
- - Purvomay to Kapitan Andreevo (in construction)
- - Sofia to Thessaloniki (in construction)
- total: 44,033 km
- paved: 43,593 km (99%)
- unpaved: 440 km (1%)
- motorways: 459 km (2008)
Waterways
Pipelines
- gas: 2,505 km
- oil: 339 km
- refined products: 156 km (2006)
Ports and harbours
Burgas, Lom, Nesebar, Rousse, Varna, Vidin, Primorsko, Sozopol, Pomorie, Obzor, Kavarna, Balchik, Silistra, Tutrakan, Svishtov, Nikopol, Oryahovo
Major and largest port is Varna Biggest harbour is Burgas
Merchant marine
- total: 75 ships (with a volume of 1000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) 872,653 GRT/1,294,877 metric tons of deadweight (DWT)
- ships by type:
- bulk carrier 40
- cargo ship 17
- chemical tanker 4
- container ship 6
- passenger ship/cargo ship 1
- petroleum tanker 3
- Roll-on/roll-off ship 4
Airports
- See also: List of airports in Bulgaria
- 218 (2007)
Civil Airports
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Sofia's international airport
- Sofia - SOF - Sofia International Airport (Vrazhdebna)
- Burgas - BOJ - Burgas International Airport (Sarafovo Airport)
- Gorna Oryahovitsa - GOZ - Gorna Oryahovitsa Airport
- Plovdiv - PDV - Plovdiv International Airport
- Varna - VAR - Varna International Airport
Unused Airports
See also
External links
- Truck transport Bulgaria
- International Transport Company in Bulgaria
- Executive Agency Port Administration,Executive Agency Port Administration
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