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According to Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu, the number of cruise ships and passengers that visited Türkiye has reached a record level in 2023.

Uraloğlu evaluated the statistics announced by the General Directorate of Maritime Affairs on the number of cruise ships and passengers anchored in Turkish ports.

The tender for the concession of Lavrio port is set to begin in the next few weeks.

Sources tell Kathimerini there are at least two major cruise companies from the US that are interested, even though the utilization of the port proceeds with the sale of 67% of shares and not the concession of the cruise pier.

The administration of East Port Said, at the northern entrance of the Suez Canal, appears to "view" the port of Thessaloniki as a potential gateway to the Balkans and Europe for perishable Egyptian goods but also for Egyptian green hydrogen in the future, according to an Athens-Macedonian News Agency interview with East Port Said General Manager Aly Assem Ibrahim on Friday.

What happened on Tuesday night at the port of Piraeus, where a man was thrown into the sea by the crew of a ferry, shows that drastic changes are urgently needed in maritime transport. 

It is worrying that this particular incident happened on a ferry owned by a large company in the country's largest port. 

The ports of Ambarlı, Kocaeli, Mersin, and Tekirdağ have been ranked in Lloyd's List "World's Top 100 Ports," one of the oldest and most prominent maritime publications in the world, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu announced.

In the world's top 100 ports report prepared by Lloyd's List, four ports from Türkiye made it into the ranking in 2022.

Passenger traffic in the ports of Piraeus and Rafina was up 10.63% and 11.33% respectively in the first 15 days of July compared with the same period last year, official figures showed on Friday.

Some 420 cruise ships have visited Türkiye's ports in the first six months of 2023, according to data from the directorate general of maritime affairs.

The number of cruise passengers, including arriving, departing and transit travelers, climbed from 256,000 from January-June 2022 to 483,000 in the same period this year.

Workers at Canada's busiest port in Vancouver and at harbors up and down the nation's west coast stopped work on July 1 in a labor dispute that is likely to disrupt global freight transport.

After months of failed talks, more than 7,000 terminal cargo loaders and 49 waterfront employers in 30 ports went on strike.

Türkiye welcomed more than 299,000 cruise passengers in the first five months of 2023, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu has announced.

Greece has secured 24 million euros in European Union funding to upgrade its northern Aegean Sea port of Alexandroupoli, privatization agency TAIPED said on Wednesday.

Alexandroupoli has been used by US military ships to unload munitions and move them to the eastern flank of NATO.