Tagged: Athens – Piraeus

The service has been created in collaboration with the ground handling operators Swissport Hellas and Skyserv, as well as the Piraeus Port Authority. (more…)

The Management of PPA S.A. welcomed COSTA Deliziosa, the first cruise ship to arrive at the port of Piraeus in the new year, through a special ceremony with exchange of plaques and Christmas treats for all passengers, during their arrival at the Cruise terminal. (more…)

Cruise passenger arrivals in Piraeus, one of the top cruise ship port destinations in the Mediterranean, were up 85% in January-August 2023 compared to last year, Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) said on Thursday. (more…)

Four Greek ports have secured EU financing for the implementation of significant infrastructure upgrades. (more…)

The cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” was welcomed at Piraeus, Greece’s largest port, as cruises restarted in the country following a half-year suspension due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) S.A. announced on Wednesday. (xinhuanet.com)

Greece on Saturday reopened six of its main ports to cruise ships for the first time in the coronavirus-shortened tourism season, but no ships are expected before three weeks. (news.yahoo.com)

The inauguration ceremony of the Cruise Terminal Expansion project was held today (Feb.25) at the cruise terminal of Piraeus. It is a project with initial budget € 120 million, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through Priority Axis 7 of the Regional Operational Program Attica 2014-2020. (more…)

Piraeus, Greece’s largest port, is interested in securing more Chinese cruise passengers while acknowledging that the potential of the Chinese market is huge, a senior Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) official said on Tuesday. (ekathimerini.com)

With the deadline for tenders for the expansion of its cruise port approaching at the end of this month, Piraeus port is moving one step closer to being able to welcome the largest cruise ships in the world. (ekathimerini)

Greek port representatives and cruise operators presented ambitious and detailed plans to large and small cruise company representatives in dozens of one-to-one meetings at a global fair in Florida in the United States last week. (ekathimerini.com)

Managers of Greek ports (including Piraeus’s Cosco) and entrepreneurs in the local cruise tourism sector are battling to contain the anticipated drop in cruise traffic this year and to correct the country’s course in 2018. (ekathimerini.com)

According to the 2016 statistics for the cruise sector, Piraeus port made a significant increase of over 10% (113,000 passengers) compared to 2015, while the home port traffic achieved an increase of 24%, as a result of the very good cooperation with the Carnival Corporation & plc. (cruisebusiness.com)

The project was built with caissons and provides an extra cruise berth over 250 m, since it has length 284 m. and a depth of 11 m while the land area is 8,415 sqm, the authority said, adding that up to 11 cruise ships can now dock at Piraeus at the same time. (cruisebusiness.com)

Oct 3 China’s biggest shipping company wants to more than double the number of cruise passengers using Greece’s biggest port by extending facilities for bigger ships, its chairman said on Monday. (reuters.com)

More than 150,000 additional passengers passed through the port of Piraeus in the first seven months of this year compared with January-July 2015, which constitutes an annual rise of 18.54 percent. (ekathimerini.com)

Dozens of demonstrators blocked the entrance to Greece’s privatisation agency offices in central Athens on Friday and planned more protests during the day against the sale of the country’s two biggest ports. (marinelink.com)

Greek cruise ship operators are worried of a lasting impact on the sector from an ongoing strike by port workers protesting the sale of the country’s biggest port Piraeus to Chinese shipping giant Cosco. (ekathimerini.com)