Following the European Parliament Directive 2005/44, Bulgaria had the obligation to build RIS system as a part of the trans-European network. “Bulgaria is the first Danube country to establish an administrative and operational center for ship traffic monitoring,” emphasized Ivaylo Moskovski, Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications, during the official Bulgaria RIS opening ceremony.
The infrastructure networks of inland waterways and sea shipping systems, as expected, are quite different from the open seas. The project received co-funding from the European Regional Development Fund through Transport Operational Program 2007-2013 "Improvement of navigation on sea and inland waterways".