Piraeus

Three more stations on Line 3 of the Athens metro, also known as the blue line, will open to passengers by early July, Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis said on Thursday.

Piraeus port handled a total of 5.65 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2019, becoming the top port in the Mediterranean, Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) has announced.

Passengers board a ferry at Piraeus on Monday when connections to Crete resumed as part of the continued easing of lockdown measures. Travel to other islands is expected to resume over the coming weeks. [Alexandros Beltes/ANA-MPA] 

A 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were lightly injured when the car they were in plunged off a pier in Piraeus port early Wednesday morning.

The incident took place at Gate E1 of Akti Vasiliadi, authorities said.

Port officials who arrived at the scene found that both the driver and the passenger managed to emerge from the vehicle that had sank.

Greek ports have not stopped operating since the start of the coronavirus crisis, and work on the further development and upgrading of the country's biggest port in Piraeus is proceeding as planned, Greek Shipping and Island Policy Minister Ioannis Plakiotakis has said.

A ferry carrying 249 undocumented migrants from the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos docked at the port of Piraeus at 6.30 a.m. on Monday with another ferry to follow. 

Buses were waiting at the port to collect the migrants and transfer them to reception facilities on the mainland. 

Cosco, the owner of Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), achieved a positive result in the volume of commercial activity at Greece's main port over the first quarter of the year despite the coronavirus pandemic. As the Chinese group has observed that container handling is the best activity for resisting the effects of the recession, it is accelerating its investments in Piraeus port.

There will be no services on Friday on the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) or the country's railways due to a strike called by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) on the occasion of the May Day holiday. 

A prosecutor in the port town of Piraeus opened an investigation on Friday into an anonymous report that a health clinic in the area is concealing from authorities a number of coronavirus infections.

The inquiry will first look into the veracity of the report and, if confirmed, find those responsible for the concealment. 

A group of unaccompanied children from overcrowded migrant camps who will be transferred to Germany and Luxembourg, wear protective face masks as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as they board a bus at the port of Piraeus, Wednesday. [Costas Baltas/Reuters]