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The Greek shipping community respects and honours the Greek Prime Minister, the members of the Greek government and its officials, advocating consistently the politically impartial character of shipping as a national asset for the country.

Special tribute to sailing and nautical tourism

It was clear from the start that the re-start of Greece-Russia relations, which were frozen during the previous administration, would be neither easy nor swift. Yet, it is necessary if Greece is to emerge as a force of stability in the Eastern Mediterranean,

Tourism: € 19 million surplus in travel balance compared to € 201 million last year

An article in the German financial newspaper states that the government is intensively working to present a plan by summer with the aim of triggering acquisitions, mergers and partnerships.

He estimated that Greece will regain the investment level and that lending rates may fall further.

As an historic nation, we must evaluate how from the liberation struggle we ended up with the completion of our unification as a nation through the untold horrors of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

Net profit of 600 million euros and dividends to shareholders from 2023

As last year, EY Greece will present, exclusively and for the first time in Greece the findings of the research conducted by EV worldwide, entitled: “Attractiveness Survey”, at the InvestGR Forum

The port of Piraeus will welcome more than 40 cruise ships with at least 450 arrivals this season

The Greek PM stressed that the EU’s failure to present a united front on foreign affairs should not be repeated in the case of “unacceptable aggressive action” by Belarus

What does the forthcoming capital increase of Alpha Bank augur for the domestic banking market?

The deadline for completion is extended for two years, in all investment projects that have been subject to the aid scheme of the Development Law of 2016

Transavia France flight will arrive at 19.00 carrying 189 passengers

31.7% of salaries go to taxes and insurance contributions

Greece, which has supported from the outset the European certificate that will allow travel, emphasizes that it prioritizes the health security of tourists, who before the Covid-19 pandemic secured one-fifth of the country’s GDP.

The final product is designed to be structurally flexible and compatible with the developments and changes defined by international regulations and internal procedures for each company.

How the Greek skills certification company PeopleCert managed to become a global leader in its sector

Fokion Karavias on Friday was quoted by Bloomberg as categorically denying that the systemic lender was planning a share capital increase.

'Pulling out all the stops': How underworld imposed promotion of specific team to Greece's Super League

Four post-pandemic challenges that Europe must face collectively to achieve high, strong and sustainable growth, create many new jobs and strengthen social cohesion, the finance minister said at the Eurogroup meeting.

Turnover in the first quarter of 2021 amounted to 10.9 billion euros from 11.5 billion euros in the corresponding quarter last year

Elias Xirouchakis is the new CEO of the Fund

The market value of medical cannabis is expected to reach $ 56 billion by 2028, according to Evan Michailidis, Partner at law firm Duane Morris

“Ports should become energy hubs, where the production, storage and distribution of electricity will coexist,” said the secretary general of Energy and Mineral Resources.

The school will utilize all possible bioclimatic means aiming at almost zero energy consumption

The total number of unemployed receiving benefits for the month of April 2021 amounts to 217,604 people, ie one in about five unemployed

In an emergency briefing, the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management, Nikos Hardalias, presented the latest data from the front.

Ominously, among 36 OECD member-states, Greece places an unenviable fourth place for highest taxation of wage-earners with children, with only Turkey, France and Sweden ahead.

The memorandum submitted by the citizen’s protection minister to the Supreme Court’s prosecutor with the names and addresses of 500 individuals with organised crime links is the first step toward registering and charting a plan.

There is as yet no indication whether the health ministry might recall the batch of AstraZeneca vaccines distributed in Crete. Unlike countries such as the UK, Greeks when vaccinated are not supplied with the batch number.

Public registrations will start on May 19, 2021,10:00 a.m. Greek time and will be completed on May 21, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Greek time

Citigroup economist Giada Giani added, predictably, that a revived tourism sector this week will be felt in the second half of the year, coinciding with the “plentiful” resources from the Union’s recovery fund, (NextGenEU)

Higher private sector investment

TUI said 23 flights landed in Greece since last week carrying its customers.

The first tests were successful, the transmission operator announced.

According to the Athens-based consortium, led by German multinational Fraport, the works at the regional airports – located in the country’s premier holiday destinations – were completed three months before schedule

There is a potentially explosive combination of newer, aggressive COVID-19 variants, the drop in the average age of new confirmed cases to 39, and the fact that there are more admissions of COVID-19 cases to hospitals than releases.

Minister Adonis Georgiadis referred to a successful international tender to privatize the company, while noting that Plasan’s management has already begun to renovate the plant – located in Thessaloniki’s industrial park – and is proceeding with hirings and the development of a business plan

Pangalos wrote a letter to the current deputy premier, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, in which he described the manufacturer and model of his old car, how many kilometres it had racked up along with its problems and repairs.

During this same four-month period, ordinary budget revenues reached to 13.746 billion euros, 13.062 billion euros the corresponding period of last year.

The investment of the pharmaceutical industry Pfizer in the second hub in Thessaloniki amounts to more than 100 million euros, according to the head of the second hub of the company in the city, Antonis Hatzimanolakis

Greece’s National Tourism Organization (GNTO) participated in this week’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM) convention in Dubai

Alex Patelis used a recent cover in New Yorker magazine, which foreshadows a post-pandemic return to normalcy, to point to a robust economic recovery for Greece

Is what we are experiencing - a return to normalcy and a restoration of the daily life of which we have been deprived for one whole year? It appears to be more of a starting point for restarting social and economic life, which has reached an impasse and has withered.

When to expect a new exit in the markets, what do ratings agencies say about the upgrades of Greece

What are the reasons for over-consumption of antibiotics according to pediatrician-infectious disease specialist Eleni Papadimitriou

There is a spate of positive articles about Milos from world-wide news media

Public registrations will start on May 19, 2021,10:00 a.m. Greek time and will be completed on May 21, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Greek time

The ship has a capacity of 173,400 cubic meters and was built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyards in Korea

The two panamax bulk carriers bought for $ 19.06 million and $ 21.0 million were built in 2013 and 2014 respectively

Pappas, who held the digital policy, telecoms and media portfolio in Alexis Tsipras’ second cabinet, has flatly denied any wrongdoing.

The Greek foreign minister criticised Turkey’s stance toward the conflict stressing that, “inflammatory remarks and unilateral positions” do not help the quest for a solution.

The competition aims to promote and award ideas that will leave a positive social “footprint” on the healthcare sector in Greece.

The vessel Costa Luminosa, operated by Costa Cruises, arrived with some 600 holiday-makers from Italy, France and Germany at the port of Corfu, with all Covid-19 safety measures in place.

The need for society and the new generation to become allies in planning to tackle climate change issues was raised by the Prime Minister during his speech to the competent committee of the Parliament for the discussion of a new climate law.

Overall reduction of passenger traffic in the four months of 2021 by 69.4%.

If a Greek government indeed ruled with the objective of acquiring something like absolute power, then MPs on the committee have a duty to inform the public and offer evidence.

For all businesses and activities of the economy, the turnover in the first quarter of 2021 amounted to 63.56 billion euros, recording a decrease of 5.4% compared to the first quarter of 2020 (67.158 billion euros)

“Baptising this variant as an “Athenian mutation” is a global first,” Magiorkinis said with a touch of irony, noting that variants of viruses always are named after the first place they were identified.

Americans are looking for villas and hotels in Greece

It is possible to write off a debt, reduce interest rates, maintain a pre-agreed installment and extend the repayment period

The joint meeting of the Committees will be held in the presence of the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the leaders of the opposition

John Holland-Kaye said if the UK government does not include France, Spain and Greece on the specific list, the result could be half a million lost jobs in the country’s travel and tour sector

The Covid-19 pandemic mostly quashed whatever progress in achieving several crucial privatizations

QualShip-21 began in 2001 as an evaluation system and incentive program for foreign-flagged vessels plying US waters and docking in American ports.

Sunlight is active in the renewable energy sources sector, and recently opened a subsidiary, Sunlight Batteries USA in North Carolina