Transport

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.

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.

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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