Maritime transport

Thessaloniki Port eyes boost in container traffic

The management of the recently privatized Thessaloniki Port Authority (OLTH) is expecting a significant improvement in the financial and commercial performance of Greece's second-biggest port this year, through the attraction of container ships from major international shipping companies and the increase of conventional cargo traffic.

Cruise market stayed stuck in 2018

The state's failure to develop new cruise tourism destinations and to protect existing ones from saturation, combined with the absence of major international players from cruise routes to and from Turkey, brought another recessionary year for the Greek sector in 2018. However, data on cruiser arrivals in Piraeus last year point to a likely increase.

Green light for the Port of Koper Container Terminal Extension

By the time the building permit became valid, Luka Koper had already published the public procurement for the selection of the contractor who will install the test drilling pilots which will carry the upper structure of the quayside. A period of monitoring will then follow before actual construction work, which is expected to start in May 2019.

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