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The Istanbul City Lines has updated a regulation that previously required people to carry their pets in cages when commuting by ferries, it said in a statement on its official website on July 25. 

Animals had to be carried inside cages with muzzles, according to the previous regulation.

Turkey has so far built nine hybrid ferries for Norway, which is one of the world's leading maritime nations, the deputy board chairman of Yalova-Altınova Shipbuilders Inc. said on July 12.     
 

Paros is one of those gorgeous Greek islands that seems to be a bit off the radar. While it is every bit as beautiful as other places in Greece, it is often glossed over by visitors in favor of other places. Those who do end up at Paros, however, are completely enchanted. The island is charming and filled with traditional villages where the people go about their daily lives.

The Istanbul Municipality banned the passage of heavy vehicles on ferries in Istanbul on June 7, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Heavy-laden vehicles such as lorries and trucks will no longer be permitted to travel via sea on ferries, according to decision.  

Ferry operator Scandlines said Wednesday it has evacuated all its ferries in the Danish town Rodby and suspended ferry traffic between Denmark and Germany due to security reasons following a telephone threat, reported Reuters. 

"All ferry operations have been suspended, and the ferries will be emptied as soon as the police allows them to go to port," a Scandlines spokesperson said.

Ferry links to Greece's remote islands are at risk of being severely downgraded in the next few years unless the right planning is made immediately and the necessary funds for subsidizing such routes are secured, coastal shippers warn.

As ferries remained anchored in Greek ports Thursday for the third day in a row due to a seamen's strike, the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies (HATTA) hit out at the seamen's union (PNO) for the protracted action, saying it was holding the Greek tourism sector hostage.

Ferries will remain tied up at ports across Greece on Tuesday and Wednesday because of a 48-hour strike called by umbrella union of Greek seamen, PNO.

Seamen are protesting social security reforms and changes to labor market regulations demanded by the country's lenders.

Two people were rescued after the car they were in fell into the harbor of Volos in central Greece on Tuesday night.

Two people working at the port dove into the water, broke the car's window and pulled out the passenger and driver after the vehicle shot off the docking bay right beside the ferry Proteus, which had just arrived from Skiathos and was unloading.

Police and Coast Guard officers in the port of Piraeus were on Monday investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an undocumented migrant found hanged from a kiosk near a passenger ferry terminal.

The gruesome sight was first seen by a passer-by who alerted the authorities.

According to sources, the man was a 25-year-old Syrian refugee.