History of  PUBLIC TRANSPORT COMPANY - SOFIA, Ltd.

In the beginning, between 1901 and 1916 the company was managed by the Belgium anonymous company. Its manager was appointed by the general assembly of the company. The first director was a Bulgarian - Mr. Yuriy Ilkov. He has been managing the company until 1903.

Since 1916 the Sofia Municipality has initiated a seizure the company from the Belgium company by establishing a company named Trams and Lighting Directorate. As Mr. Eng. Tzvetan Boyadziev was appointed its director.

In 1948, the Sofia City Public Transport Company was established to organize the exploitation of the tram, trolley and bus transport.

Up to 1968 there were many changes in the name of the company and finally in 1998 it was named SKGT Holding EAD. The company have five subdivisions.

During the next few years the subdivision companies have been transferred into joint-stock companies, where the SKGT Holding EAD is holding 34% and the Municipality is holding 66% of the shares.

On 14 December 2002, Metropolitan City Transport State-owned Holding Company Incorporated, Sofia was transformed into a municipality-owned individual company of limited liability, named Metropolitan Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia, as its bus transport division descended from it as “International Transportation and Tourism Individual Co. Ltd., Sofia.”

The activity of Metropolitan Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia includes:

  • organization, management, inspection and funding of the public transportation on the territory of the Metropolitan Municipality, as an integrated transportation process,
  • uniform planning of the exploitation activity in Sofia; timetables of public conveyances movement and optimizing public conveyances routes,
  • using and maintaining the information-and-management system for inspecting and controlling the traffic on the basis of GPS identification,
  • using and maintaining a uniform automated system for collecting passengers charges,
  • advertisement-and-information service rendered to the public transportation,
  • maintaining, repairing, and building new elements of infrastructure: railways, contact and cable network; traffic-information system; extragarage facilities such as public-conveyance stops and the signs and penthouses that indicate these, terminal stations, bus stations and bus stops.

The rights of the sole owner of Metropolitan Public Conveyances Co. Ltd., Sofia shall be exercised by the Metropolitan Municipal Council.

The limited-liability company shall be managed and represented by its manager, Mr. Nikolay Kostov.

The staff of inspectors includes:

  • Ms. Hristina Stoykova