Economic

The Burgas region provides 5,22 % of the country GDP and has following transport and market infrastructure:

• Burgas Port complex, oil- and fishing ports; the ports of Sozopol, Nesebar and Tsarevo;
• Burgas Airport incl. cargo terminal;
• Triple rail-way, extended railway stations in Burgas and Karnobat;
• Large auto-traffic enterprises in Burgas and Karnobat;
• Extended open-air storage sites and store-houses situated mainly in port areas and near the high-railroad Burgas - Karnobat;
• Burgas Free Zone

Industry

Industry with its multibranchial specificity is a leading sector of the economic structure of the Burgas region. Most important are:

• petrochemical industry and petroleum refining;
• metallurgy;
• transport machine - building;
• food, wine and tobacco industry;
• tailoring / textile industry;
• mining industry;
• woodworking industry;

Following industrial productions are unique or determinant for the country :

• dark and light petroleum products;
• chemical fibres;
• plastics and other chemical products;
• shipbuilding;
• ventilation and purifying equipments;
• goods waggons;
• fish-canning industry etc.

Leading еnterprises:

• Lukoil Neftochim, Burgas - petrochemical industry, petroleum refining and plastics
• Promet JSC, Burgas - ferrous electrometallurgy and stretching; hot-rolled products
• Kronospan, Burgas - wood processing, furniture and parquet
• Burgas Shipyards - shipbuilding
• Burgas Copper Mines - ore output and ore dressing
• Spartak Burgas - ventilation equipment
• Hemus Mark, Burgas - stationery
• Vincom Burgas - wine producing
• Chocolate Factory, Burgas - chocolate and candy products
• Sugar Refinery, Kameno - sugar
• Black Sea Gold, Pomorie - wine producing
• Farming Machinery Factory, Karnobat - equipment for agriculture purposes
• Canning Factory, Aytos - preserved vegetables
• Plastics factory, Sredets - plastic products
• Vinex Slavyantsi- wine producing

Skilled Crafts - presentation of the traditional manufacturing pruducts:

• plastic packings;
• ready-to-wear clothes;
• pastry and confectionery products;
• household linen;
• furniture.