Piraeus
The Port of Piraeus is the main sea port of Athens, Greece, located on the Saronic Gulf on the western coasts of the Aegean Sea, the largest port in Greece and one of the largest in Europe. It is owned by Piraeus Port Authority which is operated by China’s COSCO Shipping Ports Limited.
Piraeus Container Terminal S.A. – August 2017 container terminal statistics
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) August 24, 2017 – Piraeus Container Terminal S.A., part of the Chinese Cosco shipping group, has reported August 2017...
Ferrovie dello stato Italiane to takeover TrainOSE
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 13, 2017 – Italian state-owned railway company Ferrovie dello stato Italiane will sign a final agreement to take...
Piraeus port awards €23.8 million contract for floating dock construction to Cosco
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 11, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. has awarded a €23.8 million ($28.5 million) contract for the construction...
Cosco Shipping reports 2017 Interim Results (Overseas terminals)
Hong Kong, China (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Cosco Shipping has reported its 2017 interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. The...
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras praises Sino-Greek cooperation
Thessaloniki, Greece (Ports Europe) September 10, 2017 – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has attended the opening of China’s pavilion at...
Cosco awarded floating dock contract in Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 9, 2017 – Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (PPA SA) has announced the completion of the tender and the finalisation...
China’s Cosco books record-high container traffic at Piraeus port in August
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 8, 2017 – China’s Cosco said it handled 344,000 containers at Piraeus port in August, exceeding by 4.2% the...
Corfu port authority is in stable financial condition
Corfu, Greece (Ports Europe) September 6, 2017 – Greece’s Corfu port authority is in a stable financial condition, according to the annual audit...
Greek government invests €2.481 million in overhaul of Patras port
Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Greece’s government has given the green light to two projects for the overhaul of Patras port’s...
Piraeus port is 38th largest in the world
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Piraeus port ranked 38th in the world classification of the largest, world-class ports, with a positive...
Aegean Shipping Management enters dry bulk market
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – Piraeus-based company Aegean Shipping Management has announced the signing of a new building order of a...
Cosco announces express cargo shipping to Europe via Piraeus port
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 5, 2017 – A new service called “China-Europe Sea-Land Express Cargo” is being started by Cosco...
Greece sees reduced cruise ship visitors
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 4, 2017 – Initial figures indicate that the local cruise ship industry will decrease in 2017. The Union of...
Grimaldi group will present the case of Hellenic Seaways in Brussels
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) September 3, 2017 – The Italian shipping group Grimaldi Lines is preparing a complaint to be sent to the European...
Cruise Shipping and Urban Development: The Case of Piraeus
Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 2, 2017 – The International Transport Forum (ITF) has published a report which assesses the impacts of cruise...
Greece to invest €81,000 in installing equipment for power supply to vessels at Lefkada port
Lefkada, Greece (Ports Europe) August 31, 2017 – Greece’s government has given the green light to the installation of equipment for the delivery of...
EU Sauron project to tackle cyber security
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) August 27, 2017 – The SAURON project (Scalable multidimensionAl sitUation awaReness sOlution for protectiNg european...