Kavala

Firefighters in the northeast of the country are continuing to battle a fire that broke out in a remote forested area on a ridge of Mount Pangaio near Kavala.

A large contingent of 75 firefighters, four aircraft and a helicopter are attending the scene of the fire, which broke out Friday shortly after noon.

With targeted audits and extensive cross-checks of myDATA and data from courier companies, auditors from the Independent Public Revenue Authority identified, in the first half of 2024, more than 52 businesses that make sales online but do not declare the revenue from them, as they do not issue the relevant invoices or receipts.

The “wave” of bad weather affecting our country since yesterday is worsening today, with the main features being rain, thunderstorms and high lightning activity. The phenomena are expected to weaken late Thursday evening.

More than 6,000 passengers on the two cruise ships that “docked” today at the port of Thessaloniki -most of them Americans and Canadians, but also Britons and other Europeans. With “ally” the good weather, most of them poured into the sunny city, opting for the four-hour city tour, with visits to the most important sights, such as the White Tower, St.

In the northern Greek port city of Kavala, an ultra-luxury Greek hotel owned by Egypt and built by Mohammad Ali Pasha has become a base to not only explore Kavala, but also Greece's historic ties to the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the broader Middle East.

Tourism revenue could reach a record €21 billion in 2023, a National Bank of Greece report estimates.

The final amount will certainly smash the record €18.17 billion receipts of 2019, the final year before the Covid-19 pandemic. While tourism recovered strongly in 2022, after two lean years, revenue, at €17.63 billion, fell short of a new record.

Coastal shipping companies on Thursday began offering ticket discounts of up to 50% on passenger ferries departing from the ports of Piraeus, Rafina, Thessaloniki and Kavala, following a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis where they were asked to cut transport costs for the average Greek family.

A Czech tourist has died after collapsing on a beach on the northern Aegean island of Thasos, with eyewitnesses saying that it took 51 minutes for an ambulance to reach the scene.

The woman, who was aged between 45 and 50, is understood to have collapsed shortly after emerging from swim at Astrida beach, in the southern part of the island.

Illustration. BIRN/Igor Vujcic

Major players in global shipping, the Laskaridis brothers are known in Greece for their initiatives to clean the seas of rubbish and scrap single-use plastics.

An An-12 plane of a Ukrainian airline carrying "dangerous" cargo crashed shortly before 11 p.m. last night in northern Greece near the town of Paleochori, about 40 km from Kavala.

#BREAKING | Ukrainian plane Antonov 12 crashed in Greece. pic.twitter.com/d5ikrGEvrs

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