At the moment 5,300 people work in the "Kremikovtzi" factory, but practically it is not functioning. This was announced by Vassil Yanachkov, leader of Federation "Metalici" in KNSB cited by BNR. He added that about one third of the workers and employees have not received their salaries for October.According to Yanachkov, from the six offers for "Kremikovtzi" submitted by now, those of the Brazilian company "CSN" and the Ukrainian "Smart group" are equally attractive. още »

The slump of the economy in the country which started in October is continuing, according to data by the National statistics institute. The business surveys carried out in December among firm managers show that the unstable economic environment and the shrinking of the internal and external market make the most trouble for companies in the industry. още »

197 workers from the chemical firm "Asenova krepost" in Asenovgrad will be laid off, while the same number of employees will go out on an unpaid vacation beginning January 1. The notification letters have already been deposited in the Labor bureau and the municipality, radio Plovdiv announced.Because of the financial crisis and the lack of markets the firm closes permanently 200 work places. още »

The Ministry of Agriculture reports a record in the export of basic agriculture crops in 2008.For the period beginning July up to now nearly 2 200 000 tons of grain cultures (wheat, barley and corn) have been exported, which puts us third in Europe on the export of such crops.This was announced at a press conference today by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture Svetla Buchvarova. още »

The capital of Bulgarian development bank is being increased by 500 million levs. This is one of the measures for counteraction to the world financial crisis in the real sector, while the goal is the provision of resource for small and medium business.Different scenarios for aiding entrepreneurs will be developed, as the provision on credit lines of commercial banks will be used. още »

The State Commission for energy and water regulation decided that the maximum price of natural gas will be corrected by 14,11% in the first quarter of 2009. The price of the blue fuel from January 1 will be 614,66 levs for 1000 cubic meters without VAT.The correction is 76 levs over the applied at the moment by "Bulgargaz" EAD price of the blue fuel, which is 538,66 levs for 1000 cubic meters without VAT. още »

15 ships are waiting in port Varna because of a lack of cargo. For the same reason over 1000 ships ride at anchor in the Greek port "Pirea".The lack of orders is due to the financial crisis, the director of Varna port captain Danail Papazov announced, cited by BNR.He specified that the cargo turnover of fertilizers has decreased because of the suspension of the work of the Devnya factory "Agropolychim", the sea import of Chinese merchandise has also dwindled. още »

The Commission on message regulation accepted a decision for the reduction of the prices of telephone calls in the networks of the three telecoms by the end of 2010, the official site of the commission announces. The reduction is planned to take place gradually.The fees from a fixed to a mobile network beginning January 1 2009 will be 29 stotinki for strong traffic and 25 stotinki for weak traffic. още »

Bulgarian fish processing companies will be able to export their production on the Russian market. The memorandum between the two sides was signed in Brussels by the Deputy General Director of the National veterinary service Damian Iliev and Sergey Dankvert, leader of the Russian federal service on veterinary and phyto-sanitary control.Bulgaria is the only member state of the European Union, which signs an agreement with Russia for the trade with fish and fish products. още »