Transport Ministry

The Transport Ministry has launched an investigation into reports that another potentially deadly collision between two trains was narrowly averted on Monday, and not thanks to the automated safety systems that should be operating on the national rail network.

A total of 749 cruise ships visited Türkiye's ports in the January-August period, bringing 1.2 million passengers, according to data from the Transport Ministry.

August was the busiest month in terms of cruise ship traffic at 176, but most passengers arrived in July at more than 315,000.

With the 250 new electric buses already on the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki, procedures for a new tender regarding another 700 new electric buses and trolleybuses in Athens and Thessaloniki are under way.

Public consultation has begun and the tender is planned to go live in October.

Athens taxi drivers will pull off the capital's streets on Thursday, their union, SATA said. The strike started at 6 a.m. and will end at the same time on Friday.

Taxi drivers will hold a protest rally at the Transport Ministry starting on Spyrou Patsi & Athinon Avenue near the city center at 9.30 a.m.

Cruise ships brought more than 135,000 holidaymakers to Turkish ports in the first four months of 2024, marking a 10 percent increase from a year ago.

In January-April last year, around 123,000 cruise ship passengers visited the country's ports.

Former transport and infrastructure minister Christos Spirtzis, who served under SYRIZA from 2016 to 2019, is demanding that his immunity from prosecution be lifted in relation to the ongoing investigations into the deadly train crash in Tempe last year, which cost the lives of 57 people.

Some 18 cruise ships visited Türkiye's ports in January, bringing nearly 20,000 visitors, according to data from the Transport Ministry.

This marked the highest number of cruise ship passengers visiting the country for the month of January since January 2011, when 20,712 passengers arrived in Türkiye on cruise ships.

Some 200 striking taxi drivers joined a motorcade across Athens on Tuesday, adding to the already considerable woes faced by commuters by the stoppage.

A drilling machine working near an underground line connecting Istanbul's central Mecidiyekoy district to the city's main airport accidentally bored through the ceiling of the metro tunnel and the rails, a video shared by Sozcu TV broadcaster showed on Saturday.

A single agency will be set up to manage the railway infrastructure in Greece by incorporating the three subsidiaries of state-run Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry has said.