Attica Group

CEOs from Greece's leading tourism businesses gathered at the "Reimagine Tourism in Greece" conference on Tuesday, where they discussed the industry's challenges and the urgent need for sustainable practices to ensure the long-term success of Greek tourism.

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Discounts on ferry and airfare will be available to substitute teachers for the 2024-2025 school year in order for them to travel to their placement and commissioning district.

Specifically:

Ship tickets

Discounts on shipping and airline tickets for the travel of newly appointed teachers of primary and secondary education in their area of assignment.

Greek shipping has now become an oligopolistic market, which is essentially controlled mainly by only 2 companies. The Attica group and the Seajets group are owned by Mr Marios Iliopoulos.

Attica Group announced on Friday its agreement with the Stena shipping company and China Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) for the construction of up to four very large environmentally friendly passenger ships, the value of which may exceed 800 million euros.

The increase in itineraries and ship occupancy, combined with the reduction in fuel costs, have boosted the operating profitability of Attica Group, which showed a net profit of 61.22 million euros in 2023.

The shipping group saw its turnover increase by 11% from 2022, with operating profits more than doubling and net profits more than tripling.

Grimaldi Group's Minoan Lines has now applied ticket price hikes of 2.4% for passengers and vehicles for the Piraeus-Crete route, with passengers paying an extra euro per trip and vehicles charged an extra euro per meter of length.

Similar increases, of the order of 2.7%, are also being applied by the other major ferry company that connects Piraeus with Crete, the Attica Group.

Attica Group and ONEX Group signed on Friday a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) for the green transition of Attica Group's ferry fleet and potential contributions by ONEX's subsidiary companies at the Elefsina and Syros island shipyards, worth one billion euros.

ANEK ferry company and Elefsis Shipyards are in discussions for the execution of a 1-billion-euro shipbuilding budget program for the modernization of the Attica Group fleet.