Greece to transform “green” commercial shipping fleet with new fund
Greece to transform “green” commercial shipping fleet with new fund Shipping and Island Policy Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis announced plans on Tuesday for the creation of a state-supervised fund to transform Greece’s coastal shipping fleet “green”, greekcitytimes.com reports. Addressing an event at the Marine Chamber, Plakiotakis said an international tender will be launched to find an […]
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Greek cars are oldest in the EU
Greek cars are oldest in the EU Greece has the oldest fleet of passenger cars in the European Union, with an average age of 17 years, when the EU average is 12 years, according to data published by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) up to the year 2021. Estonia has the second oldest passenger […]
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Erdogan announced the reinforcement of the Turkish fleet
Erdogan announced the reinforcement of the Turkish fleet The reinforcement of the Turkish fleet was announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking at the delivery ceremony of a new type of Firtina self-propelled guns at the BMC factory near Ankara, Erdogan announced that the first unmanned aircraft carrier, the Istanbul frigate and the Piri […]
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Reinforcing the Greek navy is imperative
Reinforcing the Greek navy is imperative The modernization of the technical infrastructure of the fleet and staffing it with highly qualified technical personnel – and thus highly paid – is imperative. We recently celebrated our Armed Forces Day and soon we will celebrate our Hellenic Navy on its own day. Both celebrations fill us with […]
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Greek merchant fleet grows by a marginal 0.2% in August
Greek merchant fleet grows by a marginal 0.2% in August The strength of the Greek merchant fleet increased by 0.2% in August 2022 compared to the previous year, according to provisional data published by Hellenic Statistical Authority-ELSTAT. At the same time, there was a decrease of 1% from the corresponding comparison of the year 2021 to […]
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Fireships: How Greece’s Daring Sailors Destroyed the Turkish Fleet
Fireships: How Greece’s Daring Sailors Destroyed the Turkish Fleet The painting ,”The Burning of a Turkish Frigate,” by Konstantinos Volanakis shows Greek sailors setting fire to a Turkish vessel during the War of Independence. Credit: Konstantinos Volanakis/Public Domain Silently, with mute prayers to St. Nicholas and the Virgin Mary during the Greek War of Independence, […]
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Ancient Greek Trireme Ships Enabled Rise of Athens as Great Power
Ancient Greek Trireme Ships Enabled Rise of Athens as Great Power A “Fleet” of Greek triremes is shown in a multiple image of the reconstructed ship “Olympias,” a faithful recreation of the Ancient Greek trireme which enabled the rise of Athens as a great power. Credit: EDSITEment-reconstructed /Perseus /Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;Project./Public Domain Few things on […]
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EU plans to build firefighting fleet faster after summer of climate crises
EU plans to build firefighting fleet faster after summer of climate crises The European Union and its member states agreed on Monday to speed up plans to establish an EU fleet of firefighting aircraft, after rampaging wildfires across Europe this summer exhausted the bloc’s capacity to respond. This summer’s wildfires forced thousands of Europeans to […]
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Fewer ships in Greek merchant fleet in June [Tables]
Fewer ships in Greek merchant fleet in June [Tables] The strength of the Greek merchant fleet decreased by 0.2% in June 2022 compared to the previous year, according to the provisional data published by Hellenic Statistical Authority-ELSTAT. At the same time, a decrease of 0.9% was noted during the corresponding comparison of the year 2021 […]
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Shipping fleet in need of new vessels
Shipping fleet in need of new vessels Greek passenger shipping companies will need to spend €2.5-€3 billion to renew their aging fleet, a sector report by XRTC Business Consultants says. With this sum, the firms could replace all their ships over 25 years old. The recent acquisition by Attica Group subsidiary Hellenic Seaways of three […]
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New ship for Melina Travlos’ Neptune Lines
New ship for Melina Travlos’ Neptune Lines A newly built ship was added to the fleet of “Neptune Lines”, belonging to Melina Travlos’ interests. The ship was launched in Rijeka, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, and the Greek Minister of Maritime and Island Policy, Giannis Plakiotakis. The 200 meter […]
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Performance Shipping: Fleet strengthening with the acquisition of a new aframax
Performance Shipping: Fleet strengthening with the acquisition of a new aframax Performance Shipping, a shipping company owned by the Palios family, has signed a loan agreement with Piraeus Bank to finance the acquisition of the sixth aframax tanker in its fleet. As announced by the Nasdaq-listed company, this is a long-term loan of up to […]
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The U.S. Caves in to Erdogan’s Blackmail with F-16 Pledge
The U.S. Caves in to Erdogan’s Blackmail with F-16 Pledge The US now fully supports the modernization of the Turkish F-16 fleet. Public Domain A senior Pentagon official confirmed on Wednesday that the US fully supports the modernization of Turkey’s F-16 fleet, hours after Turkish President Erdogan agreed to lift the threat of a veto […]
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SKY express: Continues investments with new aircraft
SKY express: Continues investments with new aircraft In a few days, SKY express will strengthen its fleet with a new Airbus A320neo. The airline, which during the pandemic renewed its fleet with new aircraft and “opened” its activity abroad, is launching in 2023 the acquisition of two more A321 type aircraft. The company’s ongoing investment […]
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Greece Remains Top Shipping Nation in the World
Greece Remains Top Shipping Nation in the World Greece controls 21% of the global fleet. Credit: Union of Greek Shipowners Greece remains the top shipping nation in the world, as Greek shipowners with 5,514 ships currently control approximately 21% of the global fleet, in terms of capacity, the Union of Greek Shipowners (USG) announced in […]
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The Day Greeks of Smyrna Welcomed the Hellenic Fleet in Asia Minor
The Day Greeks of Smyrna Welcomed the Hellenic Fleet in Asia Minor Crowds gathered to welcome the Hellenic Fleet in Smyrna in May 1919. Public Domain On May 14, 1919, thousands of Greeks of Smyrna wore their best clothes and rushed to the city’s seafront to get a glimpse of the Hellenic navy. On that […]
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Greeks own 59% of EU fleet
Greeks own 59% of EU fleet Shipping has operated and continues to operate as “a beacon of stability in a volatile global environment,” the president of the Union of Greek Shipowners, Melina Travlos, said on Thursday. In a statement on the occasion of the Posidonia international shipping exhibition, to be held in Athens on June […]
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Ceres Shipping invests in a fleet of 60 ships to carry CO2
Ceres Shipping invests in a fleet of 60 ships to carry CO2 New innovative technological solutions that contribute to the protection of the environment have always attracted Greek shipowners. It is no coincidence that they are also pioneers in investments in liquefied natural gas carriers. In this context, yesterday’s announcement by the Greek shipowner Panagiotis […]
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Moskva: The Flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Has Sunk
Moskva: The Flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Has Sunk Russia confirmed that Moskva has sunk. Credit: Credit: Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0/Wikipedia Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet has sunk after being damaged by an explosion on Wednesday, Russia’s defense ministry said on Thursday. The ship, a symbol of Russia’s military power, leading its […]
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Ukraine Claims to Have Struck the Flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Ukraine Claims to Have Struck the Flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Moskva seen from the air in 2009. Credit: Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0/Wikipedia Russia’s defense ministry confirmed on Thursday that an explosion aboard Moskva, the flagship of the country’s Black Sea Fleet, has “seriously damaged” the vessel. The ministry’s statement said: “The cruiser Moskva’s […]
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Fireships: How Greece’s Daring Sailors Fought the Turkish Fleet
Fireships: How Greece’s Daring Sailors Fought the Turkish Fleet The painting “The Burning of a Turkish Frigate” by Konstantinos Volanakis shows Greek sailors setting fire to a Turkish vessel in the War of Independence. Credit: Konstantinos Volanakis/Public Domain Silently, with mute prayers to St. Nicholas and the Virgin Mary during the Greek War of Independence, […]
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Thenamaris received the newly built Seaduchess
Thenamaris received the newly built Seaduchess The 103 ships reached the fleet of Thenamaris after the last addition of the tanker SEADUCHESS. Seaduchess is a newly built VLCC. It was built in 2022, in the Japanese shipyards, Imabari, and has a capacity of 309,800 dwt. With the addition of SEADUCHESS, the Thenamaris tanker fleet, according […]
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Size of Greek fleet remains the same, y-o-y
Size of Greek fleet remains the same, y-o-y The Greek merchant shipping fleet was unchanged in January compared with the same month last year, totaling 1,833 ships, after a 1.8% decline recorded in the same months in 2020/2019, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said on Friday. The Greek fleet’s capacity was 39,604,587 deadweight tons (dwt) […]
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The strength of the Greek merchant fleet was stable in January
The strength of the Greek merchant fleet was stable in January The strength of the Greek merchant fleet showed signs of stability during the first month of the year. In particular, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority ELSTAT, the strength of the Greek merchant fleet in January 2022, compared to the corresponding lists of January 2021, […]
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Clarksons – Greek-owned fleet increases its share [tables]
Clarksons – Greek-owned fleet increases its share [tables] The Greek-owned fleet remains the largest in the world with 5,774 ships, 410 million dwt and 242.3 million gt according to the data provided to ot.gr by the leading shipping brokerage house Clarksons. Also, the Greek-owned fleet in terms of gt constitutes 16.5% of the world fleet, […]
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Το μη-επανδρωμένο σκάφος Ranger εκτόξευσε αντιαεροπορικό βλήμα μεγάλου βεληνεκούς RIM-174 ERAM (Video)
Το μη-επανδρωμένο σκάφος Ranger, του προγράμματος GFO (Ghost Fleet Overlord) του Αμερικανικού Ναυτικού, πραγματοποίησε εκτόξευση αντιαεροπορικού βλήματος μεγάλου βεληνεκούς RIM-174 ERAM (SM-6) στη θάλασσα. Η δοκιμή εντάσσεται στο ευρύτερο πλαίσιο δοκιμών μη-επανδρωμένων σκαφών σε διάφορους ρόλους, μάχης και υποστήριξης. Το πρόγραμμα GFO βρίσκεται, από το Σεπτέμβριο του 2019, στη δεύτερη φάση, δηλαδή στη φάση δοκιμών […]
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Greek-owned shipping fleet worth $132 billion
Greek-owned shipping fleet worth $132 billion The value of the Greek-owned merchant shipping fleet grew over 32% in the past three years and now stands at $132.58 billion, data from consultancy VesselsValue show. The active fleet consists of 4,546 ships with a total value of $117.59 billion. To those add the 187 vessels under construction, […]
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Another newly built LNG Carrier in Capital Gas’ fleet
Another newly built LNG Carrier in Capital Gas’ fleet Capital Gas Ship Management Corp. took successful delivery today of the newbuilding LNG Carrier ‘Adamastos’, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries, S.Korea. With cargo capacity of 174,000 m3, the vessel is highly efficient, propelled with XDF engines and equipped with the latest available technologies, including an air […]
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Modernizing passenger shipping fleet requires €3 billion
Modernizing passenger shipping fleet requires €3 billion Greek passenger shipping firms will need to invest €3 billion by the end of the decade to renew their fleet, which is aging and being overused, experts say. Shippers will also have to build more environmentally friendly ships. Some money will be available through the EU, but most […]
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XRTC – More than 3 billion euros are needed to renew the coastal fleet
XRTC – More than 3 billion euros are needed to renew the coastal fleet The required funds for the renewal and upgrade of the coastal fleet in the next decade range between 2.6 -3 billion euros, while in addition more than € 100 million are needed to upgrade the fleet to newer ships. The above […]
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