{"id":16592,"date":"2025-08-28T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgports.bg\/about-us\/structure\/operational-activity\/vessel-traffic-management-danube-river-department\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:26:08","slug":"vessel-traffic-management-danube-river-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bgports.bg\/en\/about-us\/structure\/operational-activity\/vessel-traffic-management-danube-river-department\/","title":{"rendered":"River Information Services Authority (RIS Authority)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"16592\" class=\"elementor elementor-16592 elementor-6783\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0245bfc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0245bfc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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approach canals and berth;<\/li><li>collecting, processing, storing and providing information acquired by the river traffic system in the interest of humans life safety, safety of navigation on the Danube and the environmental protection.<\/li><li>Providing information relating to safety of navigation and organization of traffic using the system for visualization of traffic;<\/li><li>Providing information to interested state bodies, organizations and individuals within the established rules;<\/li><li>Interaction with external for the systems organizations associated with shipping on the Danube.<\/li><li>Provision and maintenance of the subsystem Notices to Skippers (NtS)\u00a0 \u2013 this is a standardized key RIS technology connected to similar systems in other countries providing search and display of messages for the relevant parts of the Danube and other river\u00a0channels.<\/li><\/ul><p>The river information services provided by Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company are part of the international system \u2018River Information Services, implementation of which is in accordance with Directive 2005\/44\/EC of the EU and is placed under the responsibilities of the Member States. For the maritime part, in accordance with the international terminology this system is called VTMIS (Vessel Traffic Management and Information System), and for the inland waterways, according to the adopted in Europe terminology \u2013 RIS (River Information Services). It is perceived the Bulgarian part of pan-European services to be called BULRIS.<\/p><p>Vessel Traffic Management Authority provides the following services:<\/p><ul><li>Navigational situation\u00a0\u2013<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Danube;<\/li><li>Hydrological information \u2013 Danube;<\/li><li>Notices to skippers.<\/li><\/ul><p>The Directorate serves and provides information also on the systems with regulated access\u00a0<span lang=\"en\">and a system for electronic processing of documents on the river<\/span>:<\/p><ul><li>Electronic reporting on ships;<\/li><li>Positioning and tracking system.<\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span lang=\"en\">Within the project \u201e<\/span>Implementation of River Information System in the Bulgarian stretch of Danube River \u2013 BULRIS\u201c<span lang=\"en\">\u00a0a system for monitoring and recording the condition of the river bottom has been implemented.<\/span><\/p><p>More information and instructions to fill in Applications for Access to BULRIS can see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgports.bg\/en\/page\/113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Director of\u00a0River Information Services Authority\u00a0is Dipl.\u00a0Eng. 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