🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Black Sea · Multi-Purpose Port
In the last 180 days, ArcNautical recorded 45 vessel arrivals at Varna, with Cargo accounting for 82% of port calls — in line with the Black Sea regional average of 80%. Varna in Bulgaria sits in the most volatile maritime environment in the world. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea has been a theatre of active naval conflict — mine strikes, missile attacks on port infrastructure, and interference with commercial shipping are a daily operational reality. The Joint War Committee has designated extensive portions of the basin as a listed area, and war risk premiums have escalated dramatically. Russia's Black Sea Fleet has attacked Ukrainian port infrastructure and commercial grain vessels with cruise missiles and drones; the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative collapse left operators without a formal de-confliction mechanism. Access through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles is controlled by Turkey under the Montreux Convention.
Routed sea distances from Varna to the principal global hubs, computed by ArcNautical's routing engine — around land and through the canals a ship actually uses, not great-circle.
Across 45 distinct vessel arrivals, 45 carry a confirmed AIS ship-type code. The most common categories at Varna:
Bulgaria is a multi-MoU jurisdiction (its port states participate in more than one regional PSC programme). Vessel-level detention probability for calls at Varna is computed by ArcNautical's scoring engine using flag performance, vessel age, deficiency history, and ownership opacity rather than a regional aggregate.
Last 10 vessel arrivals recorded by ArcNautical's AIS pipeline (last 90 days):
| Arrived | Vessel | Flag | Type |
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| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
| 2026-08-05 | M/V SUM | 🇰🇲 KM | Cargo |
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