Tag: Greece

Port of Piraeus, Greece will be from now on ferry connected to Limassol, Cyprus. According to the Shipping Deputy Minister of Cyprus, Natasa Pilides, efforts are underway in order the ferry trip to be launched and available by this summer. For the records, the return ferry ticket is estimated to cost around €130 per person, including the port fees.

According to Al Jazeera, the European market hangs in the balance as the US take aim at Russian-Turkish energy alliance. Greece is now proving to be a test case of the power of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to get market share, while the US is taking notice by the boosting US LNG sales to Europe.

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that in case Greece and Turkey cannot solve their dispute about maritime zones in the Mediterranean, they should address the disagreement at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague.

The Bulgarian Government will invest in the Alexandroupolis FSRU terminal in Greece aiming on a wider diversity of its sources of supply, while the project is set to begin operations in September 2022, as Reuters informed.

The injured crew member of the Greek-flagged tanker "Happy Lady" returned to Greece on 7 January, about a week after the ship became subject of a piracy attack while at Limboh port in Cameroon. The piracy attack on 31 December 2019 resulted to the abduction of eight crew members. 

Greece's most recent winter storm dubbed Hephaestion disrupting shipping operations, resulted to a ferry running on the rocks of a small island in Skiathos harbor in the Aegean sea, as the harsh winds and challenging waves made the vessel hard-to-navigate.

A wave of significantly cold weather with high winds and rain in Greece has disrupted shipping and left the islands of the Aegean cut off for several days as ferry boats stayed moored. With temperatures ranging close to zero, most ships remained docked at ports across the country.

On Thursday, December 2, Cyprus, Greece and Israel inked an Intergovernmental Agreement for the construction of the EastMed natural gas pipeline, a 1,900 kilometer (1,180 mile) subsea pipeline to carry natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean’s rapidly developing gas industry to Europe, with Italy expressing its support for the project by sending a letter of support.

On December 31, pirates attacked the Greek-flagged "Happy Lady" tanker from Limboh port in Cameroon; The attackers managed to kidnap 8 crewmembers out of which 5 of Greek nationality, two Filipinos and one Ukrainian.

A federal jury in Wilmington convicted a Greek ship management company, the Greek ship owner, and the Chief Engineer of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, falsifying ship’s documents, obstructing a USCG inspection, and making false statements to USCG inspectors.