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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
