The Impact Of Railroad Transport On Bulgaria’s Regional Development

The article presents a study on the impact of freight railroad transport on the development of Bulgaria’s regions assessed through sectoral and econometric analyses. The analyses are based on indices such as revenues from transport activity of the licensed railway operators by regions, number of staff in the companies, development of the transport infrastructure, and migration growth rate. Most of the publications in this field address the relationship between air and/or water transport and regional development while this study focuses on improving energy-efficient and environmentally friendly modes of transport, such as freight railway transport. Its importance is corroborated through a regression analysis, which shows that the internal migration in the country depends on the development and modernization of its railway infrastructure

Failures of the national policy for sustainable development of Bulgaria – economic dimensions

Bulgaria is a member of the EU since 2007. The country has issues with its economic policy, which issues could have negative impact over the EU’s policies as a whole. When the economic policy of a Member State is blemished by a systematic strategic misconceptions, it is necessary this to be analyzed in depth. The debate, about the future of the EU after BREXIT and the concept about multi-speeded Europe is consequence of the efficiency of the economic and political systems in each individual Member States. Economic challenges arising by the failure of Bulgarian’s national policy for sustainable development for the period 2000-2015, are examined in this publication. In terms of the economic globalization and energy and ecological regulations, remedies for the identified strategic misconceptions are proposed. Keywords: European union, economic policy, sustainable development, Bulgaria, economics growt

The Digitalization Of Transport Infrastructure And Its Impact On Human Resource Management

The article aims to analyze the effects of the pandemic related to COVID-19 on the process of digitalization of human resources in the management of infrastructure sites in the field of transport sector. It also discusses the dilemma between goal #8 of the UN SDG for high employment of the population and digitalization of the processes and human resource management. They will require using only highly qualified personnel and less human factor. Those processes can increase labour productivity and economic growth at the cost of negative effects on total demand, social inequality, and employment

Perspectives for the development of trade relations between Slovak Republic and Republic of Bulgaria via Danube River

River Danube is an international inland waterway that is part of the Rhine – Danube Core Network Corridor. The favorable geographic location of Slovakia and Bulgaria, as well as their outlet on the River Danube, are key factors for the insurance of better transport and trade relations among West of Europe and Middle East. In this regard, the main objective of the report is to reveal the perspectives for development of the trade relations between both countries via inland waterway transport. For that purpose, a review of the status quo of Bulgarian and Slovak ports is made, as well as an analysis of the cargo turnover, export, import and balances of trades of the countries. As a conclusion, the results of the current research are summarized

Human resources management at Bulgarian sea ports – problems and perspectives for development

The organization and management of human resources in maritime transport have their characteristics as they are an integral part both of the transportation process and the efficient and productive carrying out of the main and secondary services at ports. In this regard the main objective of the current paper is to examine the human resources management at Bulgarian sea ports Varna and Burgas in order their specifics to be revealed, the main problems to be outlined and measures to be proposed. The proposed model for analysis could be successfully applied in studying the human resources management system in the other transport modes or in other countries with transition economies

The Correlation: minimum wage - unemployment in the conditions of transition to digital economy

The research is done in the context of the upcoming introduction of new European legislation for the first time for regulation of minimum wage at European level. Its purpose is to identify the direction and strength of the correlation amongst changes of minimum wage and unemployment rate in the context of conflicting findings of the scientific literature. There will be used statistical instruments for the purposes of the analysis as it incorporates data for Bulgaria for the period 1991-2021. The significance of the research is related to the transition to digital economy and the necessity for complex transformation of the minimum wage functions in the context of the new socio-economic reality

Perspectives for the development of trade relations between Slovak Republic and Republic of Bulgaria via Danube River

River Danube is an international inland waterway that is part of the Rhine – Danube Core Network Corridor. The favorable geographic location of Slovakia and Bulgaria, as well as their outlet on the River Danube, are key factors for the insurance of better transport and trade relations among West of Europe and Middle East. In this regard, the main objective of the report is to reveal the perspectives for development of the trade relations between both countries via inland waterway transport. For that purpose, a review of the status quo of Bulgarian and Slovak ports is made, as well as an analysis of the cargo turnover, export, import and balances of trades of the countries. As a conclusion, the results of the current research are summarized

Perspectives for the development of trade relations between Slovak Republic and Republic of Bulgaria via Danube River

River Danube is an international inland waterway that is part of the Rhine – Danube Core Network Corridor. The favorable geographic location of Slovakia and Bulgaria, as well as their outlet on the River Danube, are key factors for the insurance of better transport and trade relations among West of Europe and Middle East. In this regard, the main objective of the report is to reveal the perspectives for development of the trade relations between both countries via inland waterway transport. For that purpose, a review of the status quo of Bulgarian and Slovak ports is made, as well as an analysis of the cargo turnover, export, import and balances of trades of the countries. As a conclusion, the results of the current research are summarized