Greece’s largest port, Piraeus, kicked off its expansion project on Tuesday, which will user in a “new era” for the port and cruise sector in Greece once it is completed. According to…
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Greece’s Minister for Development and Investment, Adonis Georgiades in an interview with Handelsblatt entitled “We Are Again a Stable Country”, heralded the privatisation of ports, even if there were no Western investors.…
Chinese shipping company Cosco donated 500,000 euros to the Hellenic Red Cross (HRC) at a special event held at the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) on Thursday, for the purpose of helping some…
Greece and China have signed 16 bilateral agreements outlining cooperation in a broad range of sectors during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Athens. The 16 government and business agreements signed between…
Greece’s Port Planning and Development Committee last week approved a 611.8-million-euro investment plan for the modernization and upgrade of Piraeus Port, the shipping ministry announced. This paves the way for the project to begin, with Shipping…
The recent annual report by the Baltic Exchange International Shipping Centre Development, shows Greece making it in the world’s top 10 shipping hubs largely due to the development of the Port of…
Chinese state-owned shipping and logistics services supplier company Cosco, owner of Piraeus Port Organization (OLP) signed a new three year collective labor agreement on Wednesday. The agreement was signed by the Federation…
Greece’s largest port had a huge turnover in 2018, with an increase of 19.2 percent in 2018 to 132.9 million euros, against 111.5 million euros in 2017, the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) said last week, upon…
Greece is preparing to tender off the largest project to be carried out at the port of Piraeus, which will allow the extension of the port to accommodate larger cruise ships. The final…
With an aim of investing 466 million euros into transforming Athens’ Piraeus into a Mediterranean home porting hub, Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) CEO Captain Fu Chengqiu said he was expecting the approval of a relevant master plan so…
Chinese shipping giant Cosco is pressing on with upgrades and redevelopment of Pireaus port with new work commencing ahead of the arrival of a new floating tank, “Piraeus III”, at the end…
On Monday, Chinese shipping giant Cosco unveiled a new pier at Piraeus port and reaffirmed its plans to transform Pireaus into one of the world’s 30 largest container ports and the Mediterranean’s…
China’s COSCO has officially acquired the largest stake in the Piraeus Port Authority and promises to invest and develop it into one of the largest container transit ports in Europe and one…