Egnatia

A greedy business environment and an inept state apparatus are a lethal combination causing disasters in Greece. The railway tragedy at Tempi was only partly due to human error. It was mainly the result of a systemic failure of a...

A tragedy similar to what happened a few days ago in Essex, England, where 39 migrants from Asia were found dead in a truck, was avoided at the last minute in Xanthi, Greece on Monday morning. Following a routine police...

According to local news portal ''Xanthi Times'', eleven people, all of which were migrants, were burned alive on Saturday morning after the bus that was transferring them to Greece's city of Thessaloniki crashed into a truck, near the city of...

A senior privatization agency official of the Hellenic Republic Assets Development Fund (HRADF) said on Thursday that Greece will launch a tender for the long-term lease of the Egnatia toll road in order to unlock the country's next tranche...

Greek police intervened on Thursday to remove a group of about 200 refugees and activists who were blocking both directions of Egnatia motorway -- a main road that extends from the western port of Igoumenitsa to the eastern Greek–Turkish...

Five people were killed and fourteen were injured in a car pile-up involving some 40 vehicles in northern Greece on Sunday morning, authorities said. The tragic accident happened shortly after 10:30pm Greek time (7:30am GMT) on Egnatia motorway at the...

The Greek Minoan Lines said it will add a new terminal in Trieste, Italy as an extension to the existing  ferry Route Patras-Igoumenitsa, Ancona and return trips. The Italian port will be connected with the company's ferries with three departures...

The excavations are undertaken by the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and the 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classic Antiquities. According to the archaeological agencies, the subway digging takes place in areas that have seen little subsequent building activity,...