Bulgaria's Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry (BSI) struck an 82.2 million U.S. dollars deal with Diler Shipping and Trading of Turkey, the most lucrative order of the Varna-based shipbuilder to date.
Officials from Industrial holding Bulgaria, the 61.5 per cent owner of Bulyard and a former privatisation fund, were quoted by Dnevnik business daily on October 3 as saying the deal entails the commissioning of two ships, weighing 55 500 tonnes each. The first ship is scheduled for handover in December 2009, the second in September 2010. The addition to Bulyard's order log comes a month after a deal with