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Patras is the third largest city of Greece and the capital of the Prefecture of Achaia located in northern Peloponnese, 215 km west of Athens. It is manages by the Patras Port Authority SA.

Port of Patras managing director visits Finnish ports

Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) October 1, 2024 – The Managing Director of the Patras Port Organization S.A., Panagiotis G. Anastasopoulos recently made an...

Grimaldi introduces green Ro-Ro ships in Italy-Greece line

Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) June 26, 2023 – The Grimaldi Group is introducing two state-of-the-art hybrid vessels Eco Catania and Eco...

Grimaldi increases services from Bari, Brindisi ports

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2022 – The Grimaldi shipping group is to increase services from the Southeastern Italian ports of Bari and...

Grimaldi adds Ro-Ro vessel to Venice-Bari-Patras route

Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) May 2, 2022 – The Grimaldi Group will add a Ro-Ro vessel to the Venice-Bari-Patras route, bringing the total to three such...

Greek regional upcoming ports and new chances for investments

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) April 1, 2022 – A paper, published in March in the Open Journal of Business and Management, analyses the upcoming strong...

Greece plans investment in rail network connections to ports

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) September 17, 2021 – Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Costas Karamanlis, speaking at a European Year of Railways...

U.S. Ambassador Pyatt’s remarks at Patras regional growth conference

Patras, Greece (Ports Europe) June 8, 2021 – U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt has attended the Patras Regional Growth Conference, a public platform for...

U.S. Ambassador to Greece Pyatt speaks at Athens Energy Dialogues

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) February 17, 2021 – Speaking at the recent Athens Energy Dialogues conference, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey R....

Grimaldi clarifies its Adriatic strategy

Naples, 8 February 2021 With regards to the latest articles which appeared on the Greek press concerning an alleged war declared by the Grimaldi Group on the...

Who wants what in Greek ports’ privatisation

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) February 8, 2020 – Greece’s ports are becoming a geopolitical and financial playground that has drawn interest from all...

Grimaldi doubles its connections between Ancona and Greece

Naples, 5 February 2021 The latest great news from the Grimaldi Group involves the transport services for passengers and freight between Italy and Greece. In...

DFDS starts new Patras-Trieste service

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) September 13, 2020 – DFDS has started a new freight ferry service between Patras in Greece and the North Italian Adriatic...

Greece completes another part of Athens-Corinth- Patras rail link

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) July 21, 2020 – Mytilineos S.A., a Greek-based industrial conglomerate, has completed work on the new double railway line of...

Grimaldi adds Ro-Pax ship to Italy-Greece line

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) June 5, 2020 – Naples-based Grimaldi Group is to utilise the Ro-Pax ship “Venice”on the...

Greece pushes ahead with regional port privatisation

Athens, Greece (Ports Europe) April 1, 2020 – State-owned Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), responsible for privatising Greek state-owned...

Greek minister wants to speed up regional port exploitation

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) December 7, 2019 – Minister of Maritime and Island Policy, Yiannis Plakiotakis, has said that the government plans to...

Greece to produce regional port sustainability reports

Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) September 7, 2019 – The Greek Minister of Maritime Policy, Yiannis Plakiotakis, has said that the government will carry out...

Greek government approves Patras LNG facility

Patras, Greece (PortSEurope) July 30, 2019 – The Environment & Energy Ministry has approved the construction of liquid natural gas (LNG) facilities...

Greek government makes statement on regional port privatisation

Statement by the Minister of Shipping and Island Policy on the exploitation of regional ports by the method of sub-porting to investors March 3, 2019...

Privatisation of regional Greek ports progresses through parliament

Athens, Greece (PortSEurope) November 1, 2018 – A bill on the ratification of the concession contracts granting port authorities control of their ports...

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