Water transport

The 10th annual Security Project conference is taking place at the Divani Caravel hotel in Athens on Thursday, themed "Build an Integration Strategy."

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Bobič Yacht Interior, a Novo Mesto-based export company specialising in furniture for luxury vessels, has made fittings and furniture for many a celebrity's super yacht and its business is booming.

The number of cruise ships visiting Türkiye and cruise passengers increased significantly in 2022 from the previous month, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu has announced.

Following Türkiye's armed drones, the unmanned marine vessel of Türkiye, MARLIN SİDA, would be a game changer in the field of unmanned surface watercraft, Türkiye's Defense Industries President İsmail Demir said on Sept. 15.

The Celebrity Beyond cruise ship arrived in Piraeus on Wednesday morning. The ship is 327 meters long and 39 meters wide, has 21 decks, and can carry 1,416 crew members and up to 3,937 passengers.

Celebrity Cruises' newest ship is captained by Kate McCue, who was one of the first women and the first American woman to head a cruise ship.

Arrival in Piraeus

The famous holiday resort town of Kuşadası in the western province of Aydın hosted five cruise ships with 6,700 passengers on board in a single day.

Liners Celestyal Olympia, Star Flyer, MSC Lirica, Viking SKY and Seven Seas Explorer docked at the Ege Port on July 5.

Passengers of the cruise ships visited the ancient city of Ephesus and the House of the Virgin Mary.

Despite all the difficulties the world economy has to face and given the fact that shipping is the real backbone of world trade and supply chains, as 90% of all goods are transported by sea, Greek shipping maintains its role in the industry, currently representing 21% of the global fleet and 59% of the European fleet, while the inflows into the Greek balance of payments from maritime transport

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau left his home in Ottawa with his family and moved to a secret location.
Justin Trudeau said earlier that there is "a minority of truckers with unacceptable opinions that is on the way to Ottawa", emphasizing that almost 90 percent of his country has been vaccinated.

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.

Close to the astronomical amount of $ 1 trillion is the value of the merchant fleet of the ten largest shipping nations in the world, with the fleet of the first three being worth more than $ 500 billion according to recent research by VesselsValue.