World's busiest ports

The greater Athens area, including the port of Piraeus, became the seventh most important shipping center globally in the Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index after climbing one place.

The ports of Turkey appear to be the best customers of the two largest Greek ports, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, according to the fourth edition of the sectoral study on the Greek Port Industry, GREPORT2022, edited by George K. Vangelas, Thanos A. Pallis and Evi Kladakis.

Before China's Cosco Shipping arrived in Piraeus, the "Pearl of the Mediterranean" was listed 93rd in the the world's busiest seaports by cargo tonnage.

It has since climbed to 38th.