Roads in Bulgaria

There is a 2.5 km queue at the exit of border cross checkpoint Lesovo.. The queue of trucks at border cross checkpoint Kapitan Andreevo is 4.5 km, announced Border Police.

Traffic at all border cross checkpoints with Romania, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece is normal.

A 33-year-old Dutch national was arrested while on her entry into Bulgaria on Wednesday, prosecutors say.

The woman is sought through a European Arrest Warrant.

She crossed into Bulgaria on December 21, traveling by car.

There are eight offers submitted by companies willing to build a 16 km section of Hemus Motorway in Northern Bulgaria, the Road Infrastructure Agency has said.

The tender's total value is BGN 133 M, VAT excluded.

The stretch in question is designed to connect two junctions, Belokopitovo in Shumen region and Buhovtsi, in direction to the city of Targovishte.

TIR trucks have formed a huge queue at Kapitan Andreevo border crossing, on the Turkish side, the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) reports.

Due to a problem on the Bulgarian side of the border, trucks can be seen waiting to cross into the country from the crossing back to the city of Edirne.

The Ministry of Interior and the Road Infrastructure Agency will attempt to secure the normal return of the persons who travelled during the four-day holiday.

The Western arc of the Sofia Road will be complete as of Tuesday, with a 2 km stretch that was in construction to be unveiled and opened for use.

The 5.5 km stretch begins from the bridge over the Kakach river to the crossroads of the Western arc with the Northern Speed Tangent.

Kilometers-long queues have been formed at the borders of Bulgaria with Turkey and Greece as Bulgarians are coming back from their holidays, border police officials say.

There was a 5-km line of trucks at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing in the morning, and another one, with a length of 3 km, was reported at a Kulata checkpoint leading into Bulgaria from Greece.

The district court in Svilengrad convicted a 28-year-old Bulgarian of smuggling. He is to spend one year and eight months in prison under strict regime. The court also issued him with a fine of BGN 1500.

On 20 September 2015, the smuggler was driving MAN truck bearing Burgas licence plates.

Bulgarian Prime Miniser Boyko Borisov assured on Sunday that the border with Greece has not been breached by migrants, as had been implied by some media, adding that the country managed to carry out one of the quickest readmission of refugees ever achieved in Europe.

Heavy trucks (over 12 tons) cannot move across Bulgaria between 14:00 and 20:00 local time (EEST) on Monday, authorities have said.

The move comes as hundreds of thousands of Bulgarias are traveling back to their homes, returng from their holiday trips for the Easter days.