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A5 Cherno More Motorway

A coastal motorway of approximately 103 km between the Black Sea cities of Varna and Burgas, on Pan-European Corridor VIII, estimated to cost €307 million. As of 2016 only the first 10 km, Varna to Priseltsi, had been built; the remaining 93 km is still at the planning stage.

Total length
11 km
Open today
11 km
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Sections

Sections of A5 Cherno More Motorway: status, length, dates, cost, funding and contractors
SectionsStatusLengthTimelineCostFundingContractorsContract terms
Varna – Priseltsi

The 10 km from the Asparuhov Bridge to before Priseltsi was completed by 1980 (no exact year given), per Profit.bg.

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Opened11 km
  1. 2016Opened
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  • National budgetAll motorway construction in Bulgaria before 1990 was funded solely from the state budget.
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Funding

  • National budget11 km
    1 section
    • All motorway construction in Bulgaria before 1990 was funded solely from the state budget.

A section that lists two sources counts its full length under each: the data records which sources paid, not what share each one carried.

Related projects

Corridors

The designations this project is recorded under. Both schemes are kept: the Pan-European corridors are how these projects were described when they were planned, and TEN-T is what EU money is allocated on today.

  • Pan-European Corridor VIIIPan-European

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Cherno More motorway
  2. Wikipedia: Pan-European Corridor VIII
  3. Wikipedia: Trakia motorway
  4. Wikipedia: Hemus motorway
  5. Profit.bg: Магистралите в България - А4 „Черно море“ (2024-01-23)read Sep 25, 2026
  6. MRRB / Road Infrastructure Agency: Priorities for road infrastructure construction in Bulgaria to 2020 (draft strategy)read Sep 28, 2026 · archived copy
  7. OpenStreetMap contributors (geometry, ODbL)