The 5th Annual Capital Link Cyprus Shipping Forum is taking place on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.
SHIPPING
The activation of an island decarbonization fund, the framework for the integration of shipping into the European Emissions Trading Scheme and confronting competition from countries that are not burdened with the purchase of carbon dioxide emissions were the points raised at the meeting between Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas and the European Commission’s executive vice president responsible for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans, on Thursday.
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Ferry services to the Greek islands were disrupted Thursday morning after a seamen’s union went ahead with a strike that a court had declared illegal.
The Athens Stock Exchange on Wednesday welcomed Costamare Participations Plc with the listing of the company’s corporate bond issue, the first bond by a coastal shipping company in the Greek stock market.
Passengers wearing protective face masks are seen on board a ferry at the port of Piraeus, as Greece’s tourism season officially opens.
Iraklio Port Authority (OLH) has set the bar high as far as cruise passenger arrivals are concerned and can’t wait to reveal its plans during this May’s Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 2021 – despite not being able to in person – as one of the online event’s main sponsors.
Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) is gearing up for the official opening of the tourism season on Friday, hoping to revive a sector which in the pre-pandemic 2019 season had seen it serve 622 calls and welcome over a million passengers before it suffered a 84% drop in cruise-related revenues as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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A Dutch-flagged freighter with seven-member crew ran aground on Tuesday in muddy shallows just outside the port of Stylida.
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Seven of the nine Greek nationals trapped on the Greek-flagged freighter Angelic Power will be arriving in the country on Thursday afternoon on an Air France flight, the Shipping and Foreign ministries announced.
An online seminar titled “Giants Of The Sea: Ships & Men Who Changed The World,” featuring the author of the book of the same title, John D. McCown, the co-founder, former chairman and CEO of Trailer Bridge Inc, is taking place Monday as part of the Capital Link Shipping Webinar Series.
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A Greek cargo ship has been quarantined off the island of Crete since Sunday after a sailor died and 10 more tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the coastguard said in a press release.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis leads a delegation on a visit to the Corinth Canal to inspect ongoing repairs at the site, on Saturday.
The International Maritime Organization’s carbon dioxide reduction targets for 2030 and 2050 were criticized by speakers at this year’s Digital Greener Shipping Summit who said they were hastily made and that they raise obstacles to shipping.
![Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seen on a visit to the Corinth Canal on Saturday where he was briefed on its repair plan. [Vassilis Psomas/ANA]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Mitsotakis_Corinth_canal_ANA-320x200.jpg)
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday visited the Corinth Canal, which has remained closed since mid-January due to landslides, where he was briefed on its repair plan.
Capital Link is this week organizing its two-day digital Decarbonization in Shipping Forum, titled “Moving from Discussion to Delivery.”
Turkey will soon hold a tender for a huge canal on the edge of Istanbul and lay the groundwork for it in the summer, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, advancing a project which has drawn criticism over its cost and environmental impact.
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