SHIPBUILDING PERSPECTIVE

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SHIPBUILDING PERSPECTIVE

• BULGARIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
• OF
• SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPREPAIR

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BULGARIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHIPBUILDING
AND SHIPREPAIR

• Bulgarian National Association of Shipbuilding
  and Shiprepair (BULNAS) was established at 28
  April 2009 as a voluntary non - profit
  association in private support created in aims to
  support, encouragement, representation and
  protection of the interests of its members.
• At the present moment the members of BULNAS are
  29, including all shipbuilding and ship repair
  yards in the country, companies involved in
  shipbuilding and shipreparing related activities,
  designers, classification and scientific
  organizations, universities. The total number of
  the directly employed workers and employees of
  the BULNAS members are 5 300 people, and indirect
  employment to which members of BULNAS provide job
  another 5 000 people.
• On 28th of May 2009 Bulgarian National
  Association of Shipbuilding and Shiprepair
  become a member of CESA - Community of European
  Shipyards Associations, currently representing
  99 of the EU shipbuilding production and more
  than 80 of the production of geographical
  Europe.
• Considering the LeaderSHIP 2015 initiative and
  11 September 2009 Bremerhaven High level meeting,
  and its conclusions, BULNAS has supported two
  regional initiatives
• 1. Creation of National fund for financing of
  the shipbuilding, for access to financing for
  feasible project. The initiative is a joint
  action between BULNAS and BSA (Bulgarian Ship -
  owners Association).
• 2. Cooperation between Bulgaria and Russia for
  participation in Russian Shipbuilding program,
  supported by Mr. Putin for construciton of 1 400
  ships until 2020.

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BULGARIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHIPBUILDING
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• Short presentation of our members
• Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry EOD is the
  largest shipbuilding enterprise in Bulgaria. The
  main activity of the shipyard is shipbuilding and
  ship - repair of different types of ships.
• Company product portfolio comprises
• - tankers and product carriers
• - bulk carriers (6 000 - 42 600 DWT)
• - container carriers
• - multipurpose/general cargo vessels (5 000 - 17
  000 DWT).

• Bourgas Shipyards JSC is a large shipbuilding
  company located on the southern Black Sea coast
  of Bulgaria, in the town of Bourgas. The
  enterprise build and repair all type of vessels
  up to 25 000 t DWT. The company operate a
  synchrolift launching system with the following
  vessel maximum limits
• Lmax 185 m Bmax 26 m
• Draught 5.5 m Docking weight 6 500 mt

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• MTG DOLPHIN PLC is the first completely private
  ship repair and shipbuilding company in Bulgaria,
  established in January 1991. The shipyard is
  active both in the fields of
• - shiprepair for vessels up to 60 000 DWT
• - specialized new vessels up to 16 000 DWT.
• Since 2007 the company created a designers unit
  and the qualified and experienced staff
  specialized software Tribon.

• ODESSOS Shiprepair Yard S.A. spread over an area
  of about 320 000 sguare meters, Odessos is the
  largest well equipped yard in Bulgaria suitable
  for repair and drydocking of vessels up to 35 000
  DWT and afloat repairs of vessels up to 150 000
  DWT. By the end of 2009 the yard foresee to be
  put into operation the new floating dock, which
  will make possible for docking of ships of type
  "Panamax up to 65 000 tonnes DWT.

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• Rousse Shipyard JSC was found before more then
  120 years. During that time in the yard the first
  steel ship in Bulgaria was built. Since then
  there were constructed non - propelled, crew and
  crewless, diesel - oil and dry cargo deadweight
  up to 1 500 t., pullers and pushers with power of
  3 150 h.p est. Company product portfolio
  comprises
• - tankers (5 870 DWT)
• - bulk carriers (5 000 DWT)
• - container carriers
• - general cargo vessels
• - barges, tug-push vessel est.

• TEREM - KRZ Flotski Arsenal - Varna LTD was
  founded before more then 100 years. The long
  history of the company, extensive experience of
  naval shipbuilding and repair as well the
  commercial shiprepairs allow the company to
  repair both naval and commercial repairs of
  vessels up to 20 000 t DWT and construct new
  vessels up to 2000 t DWT.

• Avemar Ltd carries out shipbuilding and ship -
  repair activities as a subcontractor to
  respectable shipbuilding yards. The company has
  floating dock for ship repairs.
• Bulmar Consult Ltd is established in 1993 as a
  private ship repair and ship supply company. The

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• company has offices in Varna and in Bourgas.
  Bulmar team of specialists provides 24 hours ship
  repair service. In accordance with this the
  company is able to help any time on any place
  during the ships visit in Bulgaria as well as
  abroad.
• Bulmar Consult Ltd was granted with official
  rights of sole agent of JOTUN - NORWAY
• for Bulgaria. The Company has official rights
  for an agent of MARINE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
  Sevastopol, Ukraine. The company is sole
  representative of numerous well known producers
  of marine equipment and consumables as
  CHOCKFAST - ITW Philadelphia Resins foundation
  systems, vibration damping, permanent alignment,
  chocking of marine and industrial machinery.
• Varna Maritime Ltd is founded in 1991 and during
  its first years it performed mainly mechanical
  repairs of vessels on - site and at open sea near
  Varna and Burgas. Since 1996 the company is
  engaged with dock and class repairs of vessels up
  to 40 000 DWT and takes a substantial part of the
  ship repair market in Bulgaria. In the situation
  of heavy competition the company has repaired
  more than 160 vessels owned by Bulgarian and
  foreign shipping companies. Since 2005 the
  company is a member of Metalock International
  Association.

• Varna Pro JSC complete design of the ships
  electrical part according to the rules of various
  Classification Societies such as Germanischer
  Lloyd, Lloyd's Register, Buerau Veritas, DNV,
  Bulgarian Register of Shipping, Russian Register
  of Shipping as well as coordination with those
  societies.

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• The company complete manufacture of any ship
  electrical equipment main and emergency
  switchboards, navigation desks and panels for
  control and signaling, starters, etc.
• DZZD Balans Electronics is a company whose
  complete manufacture of any ship electrical
  equipment, verification and adjustment of
  automation est.
• KMM JSC is are company specialized in the
  production

• of marine and industrial machine - building. The
  production range includes steam and water
  boilers, heat exchangers, tanks, pressure
  vessels, filters, metal constructions and others.
  The manufacturing process is based either on
  customers and others. KMM JSC is approved by
  Lloyds Register, German Lloyd and BKR for
  welding and production of marine equipment and
  pressure vessels class 1 and additionally most of
  the products pass approval by Bureau Veritas,
  DNV, NK depending on the request of the
  customers. On the territory of the company is
  situated laboratory for X - ray and ultrasonic
  control of welds.
• Ship Machine - Building JSCo was established in
  1962 by merging of workshops for marine
  equipment. Within a short period of time the
  company managed to assert itself as a leading
  producer of ship equipment in Bulgaria and also
  earned the trust of foreign clients.

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• The three main activities in the company are
• - manufacture of various ship equipment hatch
  covers
• of various types stern and side ramps, deck
• machinery, doors and windows, masts, etc.
• - shipbuilding vessels up to 3 000 DWT
  vessels
• - building of floating facilities on
  ferroconcrete hulls.
• ULA Ltd carries out shipbuilding and ship -
  repair
• activities as a subcontractor to respectable
  shipbuilding
• yards. It has about 250 workers of the basic
  professions (hull workers, welders, pipers,
  mechanics, electricians, painters) organized in
  teams according to the needs of the yard. The
  teams perform the jobs assigned themselves under
  the guidance of skillful foremen and engineers
  that are a part of the team.

• MAIAK-K Ltd is a company specialized in
  shiprepair, conversion and marine services.
  MAIAK-K provides a broad range of high quality
  engineering and production solutions on
  competitive prices. The company owns a warehouse
  and fabrication facilities with cranes, fully
  equipped workshops for mechanical engineering,
  steel preparation and welding equipment. MAIAK-K
  has a

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• joint venture with Rousse Shipyard JSC
  registered under the name of Rousse Shipyard
  Repair Ltd.
• UNIEL Ltd complete manufacture of any ship
  electrical
• equipment main and emergency switchboards,
  starters,
• navigation desks and panels for control and
  signaling,
• etc. Supply of full el. equipment sets for
  newbuild ships.

• UTA - DIK Ltd has been established in 1990 by two
  share - holders managers, with main activities
  ship repairs, ropes, rigging, hoisting tackle
  and machinery.
• The company activities have been authorized by
  different Classification organizations as per
  which the

• company is authorized to perform repair of
  cargo jibs, cranes and separate details repair
  of lifeboat gears, life-saving appliances, deck
  and anchor gears and ship electrical equipment
  repair and testing of the following items cargo
  derrick booms, cranes and their components
  lifeboats and their launching appliances mooring
  machinery est.
• Association of "Small graft design" is a
  voluntary non - profit association in private
  support created in aims to

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• support, encouragement, representation and
  protection of the interests of its members
  companies whos construct, build and repair small
  graft ships, boats, youths est.
• Bulgarian Register of Shipping Ltd is guided in
  its activities by the goals and moral values,
  laid down in its Code of Ethics and is dedicated
  to ensuring the safety of life and property at
  sea, and the prevention of pollution of the
  marine environment. Basic Principles of the
  Bulgarian Register in BRS Activities adequate
  qualification and practical experience of
  Surveyors in the field of operation of ships and
  offshore facilities objective and unbiased
  supervision of the technical condition of vessels
  classed with the BRS high technical requirements
  towards the supervised vessels and offshore
  facilities as regards their seaworthiness, safety
  of navigation and friendly operation in the
  marine environment in compliance with the
  requirements of the BRS Rules and the
  International Conventions satisfying customer
  requirements via establishing a balance between
  compliance with requirements for ships and
  Owners needs and expectations.

• Wartsila IHB Ship Design Bulgaria Ltd is a
  designers company established on 4th of August
  2007. Wartsila IHB Ship Design Bulgaria offering
  following scope of services
• - detail design of all kind of ships Hull,
  Piping, Machinery, HVAC, Electrical, Steel
  Outfit, Nesting and Cutting files for steel plate
  parts, Ship surface fairing and etc.
• - class design Main Hull and Class foundation
  drawings, Piping, Machinery and HVAC class design
  and etc.
• - supervision.
• The main advantage of Wartsila IHB Ship Design
  Bulgaria is high motivated, ambitious and

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• skillful team with good experience got in
  Bulgarian and foreign companies in design of
  conventional, offshore and floating vessels. The
  main activity of the company is in preparing of
  Detail design and supervision. Wartsila IHB Ship
  Design Bulgaria offer high quality documentation
  prepared as per yard requirements using different
  CAD/CAM software AutoCAD, Tribon and Nupas
  different FEA softwares and other.
• Germanischer Lloyd Bulgaria Ltd dedicated to
  ensuring the safety of life and property at sea,
  and the prevention of pollution of the marine
  environment. They safety and quality philosophy
  is based on qualified and well trained personnel
  capable of working in different cultural
  environments. As an independent third party
  company, GL is a dynamic, innovative,
  forward-thinking, expansion-minded organisation.
  GL Bulgaria focus on developing state of the art
  rules, procedures and guidance in order to offer
  relevant answers in times of economic challenges
  and tight regulatory regimes. As an inspection,
  certification and technical consultancy company
  GL offers sophisticated technical services
  addressing all safety and risk issues of
  installations related to energy production,
  storage and transportation. Germanischer Lloyd
  offers a "one stop shopping" approach for its
  worldwide customer base including comprehensive
  technical services across the asset life cycle.

• Bulgarian Ship Hydrodynamics Centre the mission
  of BSHC is to perform fundamental and applied
  researches, to train students and PhD graduates
  in the field of ship hydrodynamics, aerodynamics,
  ocean and coastal engineering, environmental
  protection, water transport, defense and others
  in favor of the society. BSHC hold following
• - departments ship hydrodynamics ship dynamics
  and ocean engineering aerodynamics marine

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• information technologies and computer
  simulations coastal hydraulics and environment
  protection
• - division experimental technique and
  technologies sector "CAD sector "Experimental
  production sector "Measuring and computational
  technique
• - laboratories laboratory "Tanks deep water
  towing tank shallow water towing tank
  maneuvering and seakeeping basin cavitation
  laboratory aerodynamic laboratory coastal
  hydraulics basins laboratory.

• Keppel FELS Baltech Ltd was established in the
  city of Varna in July 1994 and has more than
  fifteen years of experience in marine and
  offshore design. Keppel FELS Baltech is the first
  European subsidiary of Keppel FELS - Singapore -
  the worlds leading designer, builder and
  repairer of offshore rigs, particularly jack -
  ups and semisubmersibles. The company is member
  of Keppel Offshore Marine Ltd, one of the
  largest offshore and marine groups in the world.

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• Keppel FELS Baltech main activities include
• - Basic design and detailed engineering of
  offshore drilling rigs and offshore production
  units, merchant ships, heavy lift floating
  cranes, tugs and specialized vessels
• - 3D Models in CAD/CAM/CAE systems
• - Development of comprehensive production
  information

• - Engineering and analysis related to deepwater
  drilling technology
• - Technical consultancy.
• Ship Engineering, Design and Researching Ltd is
  active in marine design, technologies,
  development of technical project and workshop
  documentation.
• Lawrazia Ltd is a designers organization that
• - development preliminary project
  investigations, studiesand analyses
• - development of concept, technical, detailed
  and production designs of different ships and
  floating equipment.
• MAN Diesel Bulgaria is a branch of MAN Diesel -
  the worlds leading provider of large - bore
  diesel engines for marine and power plant
  applications.

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• Marine Design Ltd is a leading company at Black
  Sea region of design and consulting services for
  marine and offshore industry. Also is a
  representative of SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas
  S.A. about
• FORAN CAD/CAM/CAE System for Bulgaria.
• Marine Design offering following scope of
  services
• - Basic Design scantling, power calculations,
  piping HVAC calculations class drawings
  general arangements noise and vibration
  analysis

• - Detail Design modeling of Hull structure,
  OutfittingHVAC Structural outfitting
• - Production information workshop drawings
  assembly drawings, BOM
• - Other Services mechanical design interior
  design visualizations.
• Technical University of Varna was established in
  1962 by the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria and
  the Decree

of the National Assembly in order to ensure the
training of engineering staff in the field of
shipbuilding, transportation, mechanical
engineering, electrical energetics and
communication technics necessary for developing
industrial complexes in northeastern Bulgaria in
the field of chemistry, shipbuilding and ship
repairing, engine building, transportation,
electric energetics, electronics and
communications. At present structure of Technical
University-Varna includes 6 faculty, 2 college
faculty of Mechanical Engineering and
Technologies faculty of Shipbuilding faculty of
Electrical
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• Engineering faculty of Electronics faculty of
  Computing and Automation faculty of Marine
  Sciences and Ecology college at the Technical
  University of Varna dobrudja College of
  Technology (and Agriculture).
• Scientific and Technical Unions Varna is a non
  - governmental, non - political organization. It
  is a member organization of the Federation of the
  Scientific and Technical Unions in Bulgaria
  (FSTU) which unites 19 scientific and technical
  unions (STU) and 34 local societies in the major
  cities of the country. The main goals of the
  organization are to unite and support the efforts
  of its members to professional progress
  protection of the intellectual, professional and
  social rights of the specialists and promotion of
  their prestige in the society involvement of
  experts in science and technology in projects
  supporting the regional development, as well as
  formulation and implementation of the scientific
  and technological policy of the region and the
  country restructuring and protection of the
  Bulgarian production thematic coordinator for
  maritime national and EU projects.

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• The renovation and the application of new
  production technologies, specialized software and
  the European standards helped ours members to
  impose their positions on the local, as well as
  the international market. We can consider that
  the Bulgarian shipbuilding and ship repair
  industry has resources and capacity to work in
  many directions and can be briefly formed the
  next product portfolio
• - shipbuilding and ship repairing yards, members
  of BULNAS, have the capacity to design, construct
  and repair of ships up to 100 000 DWT
• - members of Association have proven experience
  not only in design, construction and repairing
  of tankers, bulk carriers, product carriers
  container carriers, multipurpose/general cargo
  vessels, but also of patrol ships, tugs, fishing
  vessels, river vessels, ships sailing mixed, self
  and non-self-propelled barges, passenger ships,
  yachts, floating facilities on ferroconcrete
  hulls etc.
• - manufacturers of ship equipment and companies
  involved in shipbuilding and shipreparing related
  activities, members of BULNAS, have proven
  experience in the field of marine and industrial
  machine - building complete design, manufacture,
  supply and installation of full el. equipment
  main and emergency switchboards, navigation desks
  and panels for control and signaling, starters,
  radio navigation and automation production of
  electric motors, machinery design, manufacture,
  supply and service of hatch covers (folding,
  pontoon, sliding, etc.) design, manufacture and
  service of ship equipment, deck machinery etc.
• - the scientific organizations members of
  Association have proven experience in the
  implementation of fundamental and applied
  researches numerical modeling and analysis in
  the field of ship hydrodynamics and aerodynamics
• - the designers organizations members of BULNAS
  have proven experience in marine and offshore

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• design, and in development of preliminary
  project investigations, studies and analyses
  technical, detailed and production designs
  adapting and develop further existing designs
  for building of ships under specific conditions
  of the shipyards, as simultaneously the project
  documentation is developed by the specialized
  software programs FORAN V50 Auto Cad Tribon
  Nupa etc
• - following the goals and moral values, laid
  down in their Code of Ethics, classification
  societies members of Association are dedicated
  theirs activities to ensuring the safety of life
  and property at sea, and the prevention of
  pollution of the marine environment.
• Unfortunately, said here can not fully to
  reveal and present the possibilities to yards,
  manufacturers, societies and organizations
  members of BULNAS (detailed information you can
  find on the website of each member), can not be
  done and a short briefly summary, but no body can
  hide or deny the fact that a large part of thus
  represented factories and organizations have over
  35 - 40 years experience and established
  traditions in shipbuilding and ship repairing
  industry. Independently the long and difficult
  period of the transition, privatization
  transactions and bankruptcy the Bulgarian
  shipbuilding and ship repair industry is not only
  managed to "survive" and has preserve but also
  developed and asserted itself as a stable branch,
  placing Bulgaria among the industrially developed
  countries.
• BULGARIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
• OF
• SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPREPAIR
• www.bulnas.org
• e-mail info_at_bulnas.org