Port Bourgas

Port Bourgas is established after a Decree for Construction, signed by Prince Ferdinand I on 20 December 1894. The construction works have started in 1895 but, as there were many technical difficulties it turned out that the company that has started the construction is not able to finish it. In 1898 the Bulgarian Government has assigned the site to the French company Societe des Construction Batignolle. The official opening ceremony has been held on May 18, 1903 and the Bulgarian Prince Ferdinand I also attended to it. Since that ceremony the port is considered as open for commercial shipping. A few years before, in 1899, the first Bulgarian port lighthouse - Light of Bourgas, has been put on. At the opening, the port offered a 60 hectares basin, 3 quay walls with total length of 590 m and depths of 24 feet.