Sailing accross the Black Sea

Programme 2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

Description

Description (EN):

This project supports the cooperation between three partners from different countries with similar social, economic, geographical characteristics (Greece, Bulgaria, Georgia). Moreover, these countries share common cultural background since people travelling between ports of these countries and trading goods has been taking place for millenniums. Modern tourism routes are the outcome of these bonds that need to be enhanced in order to achieve maximum cross-border cooperation between bodies/businesses in all participating countries. The basic idea that delivers the basis for the proposed project is the cooperation between bodies from the three countries to address common factors that create obstacles to tourism flows between the Black Sea ports and North Aegean Sea ports, while investing in means to enhance the capabilities of the participating bodies regarding their involvement in the tourist market. More specifically, some of the most important outcomes of the project are: - The development of 6 new tourist routes aiming to create sailing trips (2 in each country), emphasizing in cultural heritage attractions. - The establishment of new floating docks to host tourist boats that are not able to visit the north Aegean Sea due to severe lack of infrastructure. - The deployment of an new eco-friendly tourist boat that is going to travel to the newly created tourist routes from Burgas port. - The establishment of three separate but integrated into one network tourist offices (1 in each country) - The elaboration of a complete guide-manual for boat owners that want to travel between black sea ports and north Aegean Ports. - The establishment of movable info points to approach stakeholders and tourists - The establishment of an interactive database for the virtualization of the routes providing open access to the information. - The implementation of a grand program of international and national events that are going to emphasize on ways to enhance tourism flows between participating countries. Cross border cooperation is the only mean of approaching sustainable tourist development while at the same time enhancing common cultural heritage and crossborder business opportunities.

Achievements (EN):

The project’s overall objective was to develop new maritime tourist routes alongside the enhancement of the cross-border tourist flow, leading to cross-border business opportunities and the exchange of best practices in the field of tourism development. Cross-border cooperation was also targeted by means of a network of tourist offices and a guide for boat owners that want to travel between Black Sea Countries. An ecological hydro-bus, type "Catamaran", with a capacity of transporting up to 24 passengers, to be used for tourist sailing within the established tourist routes in Burgas, was purchased within the project. Six new tourist routes aiming at creating sailing trips (2 in each country) were developed by the project partners, emphasising the cultural heritage attractions. An interactive platform was also created and is available here: http://sabs.ola-sa.gr/. The platform may arise the interest of tour operators and tourist agencies, as well as of the general public. Concerning the platform's functionalities, the user has access to the tourist routes, boat owner manual, water samples data, ferry timetables, weather data, live view, as well as digital maps. The small-scale investment of the project: Floating Docks Marina in Alexandroupolis Port aimed at hosting tourist boats. It has 24 seats (relevant to the size of the boats), and the investment also includes relative equipment of a trailer used to land vessels in case of emergency or in case of maintenance works. Events were organised in Greece, Bulgaria and Georgia, with the scope of enhancing the tourism flows between the participating countries.

Website: http://blacksea-cbc.net/

Expected Results (EN): R 1.1 Strength of cross-border business opportunities in the tourism and cultural sectors

Expected Outputs (EN):

In terms of results the projects delivers the following outcome: - The development of 6 new tourist routes aiming to create sailing trips (2 in each country), emphasizing in cultural heritage attractions. - The establishment of new floating docks to host tourist boats that are not able to visit the north Aegean Sea due to severe lack of infrastructure. - The deployment of a new eco-friendly tourist boat that is going to travel to the newly created tourist routes from Burgas port. - The establishment of three separate but integrated into one network tourist offices (1 in each country), aiming to promote cross-border tourist flows and business in tourist sector. - The elaboration of a complete guide-manual for boat owners that want to travel between black sea ports and north Aegean Ports. This step-by-step manual will deliver a valuable asset for all traveling boats throughout the Black Sea Basin and North Aegean sea. - The establishment of 3 movable info points (1 in each country) to approach stakeholders and tourists at places of high interest. - The establishment of an interactive database for the virtualization of the routes providing open access to the information produce within the project’s implementation. - The implementation of a grand program of international and national events that are going to emphasize on ways to enhance tourism flows between participating countries. Through the above activities project is going to deliver a significant outcome in terms of tourism flow enhancement and cross-border cooperation between the participating countries, which leads to cross-border business opportunities and networking while producing totally sustainable and transferable outcomes to be reproduced to regions with similar needs.

Thematic information

Tourism

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Alexandroupolis Port Authority- Οργανισμός Λιμένος Αλεξανδρούπολης Α.Ε.

Address: Commercial Port - TOL, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ola-sa.gr/en-us/home.aspx

Total budget: EUR 127 147.59

International Centre for Social Research and Policy Analysis - სოციალური კვლევისა და პოლიტიკური ანალიზის საერთაშორისო ცენტრი

Name: International Centre for Social Research and Policy Analysis - სოციალური კვლევისა და პოლიტიკური ანალიზის საერთაშორისო ცენტრი

Address: Razmadze Street 52, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.icsrpa.org.ge

Total budget: EUR 72 236.93

Sport fishing Club "Glarus" - Клуб по спортен риболов Гларус

Name: Sport fishing Club "Glarus" - Клуб по спортен риболов Гларус

Address: Complex "Izgrev"; bl. 6; vh. 3; et. 7; ap. 18, 8000 Burgas, Bulgaria

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 233 080.29

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Summary

Project name (EN): Sailing accross the Black Sea

Project acronym: SaBS

Project start date: 2018-08-22

Project end date: 2021-07-21

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 432 464.81

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 397 867.61

Co-financing sources:

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2025-06-06

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

43 / 43 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

220 / 220 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme on 2025-03-10. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://blacksea-cbc.net/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-01, except for projects with acronyms AGREEN, BeECO, BRIDGES, BSB ECO MONITORING, BSB Smart Farming, CRoCuS, EXCELTOUR, LeNetEco 2, LOC-FOOD, SILC, THC (in these cases, the information was provided by the Programme).

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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