Transport

Passengers using intercity trains between January 22 and 28 will receive a 30 percent discount as part of a promotion by the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) to coincide with the January 25 elections.

Customers buying tickets in advance will also receive the customary 15 percent discount for pre-booking.

The crew of a cargo ship that became trapped off Crete in gale-force winds on Tuesday were airlifted to safety by a Hellenic Navy helicopter.

The Turkish captain and five crew members were taken to Souda Bay and three tugboats were dispatched to help secure the Saint Vincent-flagged ship, which was carrying a 1,200-ton load.

Tesla Motors owner wins top Tesla Spirit Award

NEW YORK -- The US-based Tesla Science Foundation has handed out the traditional Tesla Spirit Awards in a ceremony in New York.

The top honor was claimed by Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk.

Authorities at the Italian port of Brindisi on Monday fully extinguished the fire that had been burning on board the Norman Atlantic ferry for more than two weeks, raising hopes that the stalled investigation into the ferry disaster will intensify.

BELGRADE - Marko Lukovic, Serbian industrial and automobile designer and professor at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, won an international award for automotive design at the most prestigious annual U.S. competition Michelin Challenge Design in Detroit.

Indonesian divers have recovered the flight data recorder of the crashed AirAsia plane, which is believed to be at the bottom of the Java Sea.

The second part of the black box, the cockpit voice recorder has also been located, but divers have not reached it yet, the BBC reports.

Investigators searching for the crashed AirAsia plane?s black boxes lifted the tail portion of the jet out of the Java Sea on Jan. 10, two weeks after it went down, killing all 162 people on board.
                   

The representatives of four seamen?s unions expressed concern on Friday at the lack of progress in investigating the causes of the Norman Atlantic tragedy, which has so far led to 10 confirmed deaths, including three Greeks.

Cyprus closed down its flag carrier Cyprus Airways on Friday after the European Commission ordered the struggling airline to pay back over 65 million euros in illegal state aid.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

Greek shipowners invested a total of 12.21 billion euros in the period from January to November 2014, either in ordering new ships from shipyards or on the acquisition of used vessels, according to Intermodal shipbrokers.