El. Venizelos
Passenger ship returns to port due to mechanical fault
The passenger ship "Blue Star Galaxy" returned to the port of Piraeus due to a mechanical fault on Thursday evening. The ship, with 506 passengers and 100 crew members on board, was towed back to Piraeus by two tugboats.
The "Galaxy" was scheduled to dock at Samos, Kos, and Rhodes, but it will be delayed until the fault has been repaired.
‘Negative’ passengers on quarantined ferry being brought to land
Passengers who have tested negative for the new coronavirus on the Eleftherios Venizelos ferry quarantined off the port of Piraeus are being transferred to the mainland and put up in hotels in the Greek capital.
Some 160 Turkish nationals waiting on quarantined vessel at Greek port
A Greek ship that set off from the Çeşme district of the western İzmir province in Turkey on March 7 and on which 120 out of 383 people have been tested positive for COVID-19 is still waiting on the shores of the Greek city of Piraeus.
Covid-19 infections on quarantined passenger ferry rise to 120
Health authorities monitoring the 383 passengers and crew on a ferry that is in quarantine off the coast of Piraeus on Thursday said that the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases on board the vessel has jumped to at least 120 from an initial 20.