Shipbuilding

Major damage caused by an unknown number of orcas who repeatedly hit the yacht’s rudder caused water to enter the vessel’s hull

A 45-year-old diver lost his life while performing underwater works on a docked vessel at the port of Lavrio, east of Athens, Wednesday. 

Initial reports indicate that the diver became trapped in sea chests, which are portholes designed to draw in seawater for cooling the ship's engines and generators.

The Greek shipbuilding industry appears ready to write a new chapter in its history after the completion of the consolidation of its three major shipbuilding units (Elefsis, Skaramangas and Syros) and the increase in activity at other units, such as those that are based in Salamina, Perama and Halkida.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Atlas shipyard in Perama, located near the port of Piraeus, on Wednesday. The shipyard is one of 24 active shipyards in the region, and Mitsotakis emphasized the significant support allegedly provided by his conservative government to Greece's shipbuilding and repair industry.

For thousands of years, wooden sailboats allowed the peoples of Northern Europe to spread trade, influence and sometimes war across seas and continents.

Old-style single-masted boats are being built for tourism purposes at a historic dock in the Black Sea province of Bartın, where galleys and galleons were built for the Ottoman navy after the 1500s, for the first time in 50 years.

The ONEX shipyard in Neorio, Syros is selected by the Greek shipping company M / Maritime for the first dry dockings of its ships.

Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State (CoE) opened the way for the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) to build a shipyard in the shipbuilding and repair zone at Perama, west of Greece's main port, by annulling an earlier ministerial decision blocking it, it was announced on Wednesday.

Naval shipyards are an "extremely" important component of the Romanian economy with enough competitiveness existing in this economic field that allows the further development of the areas where they are located and of the country, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Wednesday in Braila.

The American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce on Monday welcomed the signing of the provisional cooperation agreement between Onex Neorion Shipyards and Israel Shipyards Ltd, along with the joint ministerial decision on the offsetting of pharmaceutical companies' clawbacks/rebates with the investments they implement in production, research and clinical studies.