Ministry of Shipping

An operation to transfer approximately 150,000 tons of crude oil from the Greek-flagged Suezmax tanker Sounion to Delta Blue, using portable equipment, is under way at a safe anchorage point in the port of Suez.

A digital portal launched Tuesday provides travelers with essential information about their rights, vessel accessibility and ticket price fluctuations.

The "Passenger Rights" portal, an initiative of the Ministry of Shipping, aims to offer comprehensive resources regarding passengers' rights in maritime transport and is accessible at passengersynanp.yna.gov.gr. 

 The Greek-flagged tanker ‘Sounion’ has successfully extinguished all 18 fires that had been burning on board. The firefighting effort was completed on Sunday, October 6.

According to sources from the Ministry of Shipping, a specialized rescue team of 27 members, supported by the Aegean Pelagos lifeboat, carried out the operation.

The qualitative upgrading of maritime education is of primary importance, Cyprus' Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hatzimanolis said recently in Greece, at the opening ceremony of the Merchant Marine Academy of Chios, held under the auspices of the Tsakos Group and the Maria Tsakos Foundation.

Extended reactions were caused by the complaint of Mary Kotrotsou, the mother of Myrto who was found cornered in a boat garage while returning from Astypalaia.

New Democracy lawmaker and former shipping minister MIltiadis Varvitsiotis announced on Thursday he had resigned his seat in Parliament and is leaving politics, without citing a reason.

The surprise announcement was made after he informed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this morning, sources said.

A large fire is in progress that broke out in the early hours of Monday in Fygias Karystos in Evia, while through 112 an order was given for the preventive evacuation of the settlements of Kokkini and the Doctors' Building Cooperative. A few minutes ago, a precautionary evacuation order was given for Marmari as well.

On June 10, the new equipment of the Hellenic Mission Control Center (GRMCC) was put into operation for participation in the new system for receiving and distributing alarms, based on medium earth orbit satellites (Medium Earth Orbit Satellites for Search and Rescue / MEOSAR), as announced by the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy.

The Secretary General of Energy and Mineral Resources, Alexandra Sdoukou, referred to the priority of upgrading ports to energy hubs with the promotion of the use of RES and especially photovoltaics, participating in a working meeting on "Energy upgrading of ports through electrification" organized by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) with the participation of the Hellenic Elec