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Eugene Ipavec, 5 January 2010
From the ‘Company Profile’ (top or left menu) we learn that the firm was founded in 1935 and originally named Coastal River Navigation (Речно крайбрежно плаване) till 1940 when the fleet was composed of bulk vessels (including refrigerated ones), passengers ships, a ferry, tugs, and barges. After WWII the fleet would expand to eventually comprise over three hundred vessels of various kinds now also including tankers, roll-on roll off ships, etc. BRS’s current area of activity is the Danube and connected waterways between the Black Sea and the Rhine. Besides the main office there are seven local offices in neighbouring countries.
BRS offers waterway transportation including container traffic, ferries, etc.; multimodal transportation; freighting and chartering; and agency services. The ‘Fleet’ page presents a number of vessels and the central composite photo on the last row (clickable) shows a tiny drawing of the house flag – a white field bearing a light blue saltire and, in the centre, a coat of arms with an anchor: http://www.brp.bg/en/fleet.html. The link to current company “arms”, also in evidence on the company website (background of ‘Contacts’ page; with a foul anchor, heading of website): http://www.mdaar.government.bg/imgm/getgallery/middle/Rousse_JSCo.jpg. Within a blue shield outline are placed blue waves on which appears a blue anchor, fimbriated; a blue shield bears the company initials “BRP” in Cyrillic script: “БРП”. The tiny flag picture linked to shows the outline, the anchor, and the initials in black. I have not yet seen a photo but a version found on the Dutch ‘Binnenvaart’ site, surely older, shows a black outline and anchor, red waves, and a green chief bearing white initials. This choice of colours is not so odd if we recall the national flag.
Jan Mertens, 22 December 2009
by Jarig
Bakker
Originally located on a postcard on
this page, a flag quartered per saltire, green above, red below, and white
to the hoist and fly.
Jan Martens, 30 April 2005
Bulgarian Steam Navigation Co. Full name was Société Commerciale Bulgare de
Navigation à Vapeur, formed 1892 and based in Varna. The flag is shown by
Lloyds 1912 and various
Talbot-Booth publications between 1937 and
1944. It also appears to be the same company referred to under different names
in "Communist Ships and Shipping" by Harbron 1962 i.e. the Bulgarian Commercial
Navigation Co. or Bulgarsko Turgovsko Plavatelno Druzhestvo. After WW2 it became
Navigation Maritime Bulgare under the Bulgarian Government.
Neale Rosanoski, 26 November 2007
by Francisco
Santos
Bălgarski Morski Flot (Bulgarian Merchant Navy) is among the ten biggest
enterprises in Bulgaria. It's a state-owned company and it's expected to be
privatized (or is already, I'm not sure), as Bulgaria joins the EU rules. In a
stamp of 1992 there is the BMF ship "Varna" and a little flag of the company.
Francisco
Santos, 03 June 2003
The Bălgarski Morski Flot flag is shown by Brown 1978 to 1995 under its major
component Navigation Maritime Bulgare which was founded 15.9.1947. Apparently
Bălgarski Morski Flot was also originally known as Inflot. In 1970 there was a
reorganization of the shipping industry with passenger ships placed under
Balkantourist [also shown as "Bulkandship" or "Balkanship" State Passenger Lines
i.e. different books = different translations, tankers under Bulgarski Tanker
Flot [Bulet] and dry cargo ships under Navigation Maritime Bulgare. Chartering
was done by Bulfrakht and the fleet deployment was controlled by Bălgarski
Turgovski Flot. This somewhat complicated state of affairs does not seem to have
lasted long and Lloyds now show the merchant fleet as all under Navigation
Maritime Bulgare which is still controlled by the Bulgarian Government although
in 2000 a 43.7% holding was acquired by British Orient Holdings.
Neale Rosanoski, 26 November 2007
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Eugene Ipavec, 7 January 2010
According to this source, DRL is active as a freight forwarder (including shipping), warehousing, and management and agency services.The house flag, shown as a drawing, is white with two narrow horizontal edges, blue, and bearing the company initials “DRL” (apparently italic; no serifs) in blue near the hoist.
Jan Mertens, 21 December 2009
