Transport
Pyrgos trash collection starts after months-long impasse
Municipal trash trucks on Wednesday started collecting hundreds of tons of rancid trash that has been festering on the streets of Pyrgos in the Peloponnese for months.
Mediterranean migrants could surge to 500,000 this year: IMO chief
The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean could surge to 500,000 this year, with deaths at sea reaching thousands if no action is taken against the people who traffic them, the head of the U.N.'s maritime agency warned on April 22.
Borajet, direct flights from Rhodes and Mykonos to Istanbul
Borajet, a Turkish-based airline, will launch three weekly direct flights from Istanbul to Rhodes and Mykonos that kick off on June 18 and plan to run through to September.
Representatives are also investigating the addition of more flights to Kos and Santorini in 2016.
Qatar Airlines increase destinations to Greece
Qatar Airways is increasing flights to Athens from Doha with the addition of a third flight to operate daily from June 1. This will raise the number of weekly flights to the Greek capital from 14 to 21 flights per week.
The Athens-Doha route, carried out by Airbus 320, 321 and 330, will be one of 146 destinations around the globe carried out by the airline.
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Japan's maglev train breaks own speed record at 603 kph
University of Piraeus tests first solar-powered electric car charging station
By Yiannis Elafros
Greece?s first solar-powered charging station for electric cars ensures 100 percent green energy and was recently launched by the Piraeus University of Applied Sciences. It is still in the experimental stage and is being used for training and research purposes.
Repair Works Begin on Two Bulgarian Motorways, Largest Sofia Boulevard
Repair works began on Monday on two Bulgarian motorways - Hemus and Trakia and the largest boulevard in Sofia - Tsarigradsko Shose.
The repair works of the Tsarigradsko Shose began in the section between Sofia Ring Road and the crossover above Aleksandar Malinov Boulevard, daily Dnevnik reports.
Pedestrian traffic jam hits metrobus stop in Istanbul
Recently named as the world's second worst city in terms of stop-start traffic, congestion-rich Istanbul can become extremely hard to move around not only for vehicles, but for pedestrians, too.
Hundreds of people, who took the streets to enjoy the sunshine on April 18, jammed an overpass of a metrobus stop in the ?ncirli neirhborhood.
Demand for New Passenger Cars in Bulgaria Increased in March
The demand for new passenger cars in Bulgaria in March increased by 21.4 % compared to the same month last year.
There was also an increase in the demand for new passenger cars for the first quarter of 2015, which amounted to 8.4 % compared to the same period last year.
March sees PCT container traffic recover
By Nikos Roussanoglou
Container traffic recovered in March at the two terminals managed and operated by Chinese giant Cosco Pacific in Piraeus.
Cosco?s local subsidiary, Piraeus Container Terminal, on Thursday announced that it handled 266,500 container last month, against 220,500 in March 2014, posting an increase of 21 percent.
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