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Ferryboat services between the Greek coastal town of Lavrion, near Athens, and Cesme, near Turkey's Izmir, will begin as of June 2, 2019, according to the Turkish shipping company which will operate along the route. Turkish newspaper the Daily Sabah reports...

Dramatic footage has emerged from a video of a Greek ferry fighting gale-force winds on its way from Venice, Italy to Patras, Greece. Christophoros Skamangas, the captain of the ferry ''Asterion II'' who is from the island of Syros, bravely battled the...

British ferry operators have been showing a great deal of interest lately in registering their vessels under the flag of Cyprus, Greek Deputy Minister of Shipping Natasa Pilides stated on Wednesday. P&O Ferries was the first large-scale British ferry operator which...

Greek crews are working to dislodge a ferry that ran aground on an islet near Santorini last week. The "Nearchos" ferry struck rocks near the island's volcano on Saturday. There were no injuries to the 13 crew and five passengers...

According to an article in the Greek newspaper Ethnos tis Kyriakis, the reason why Eleftherios Venizelos ferry was set on fire, a few weeks ago, was a short-circuit in a motor of a truck that was parked inside the ferry's...

The thick smoke in Greece's Eleftherios Venizelos Ferry that caught fire in the middle of the sea is still visible in new emerging images from the port of Piraeus, after the fire fighters managed to get deeper into the...

The fire fighters in the port of Piraeus are still struggling to completely extinguish a fire that started in the early hours of Wednesday local time, forcing the vessel El Venizelos to be evacuated. Despite the fact that some of...

Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated early Wednesday from a Greek ferry after a fire broke out in the car deck. The Eleftherios Venizelos, originally bound for Hania, Crete, returned to the port of Piraeus shortly after 0100 GMT, the...

A ferry carrying 255 passengers crashed into the port of Rafina, east of Athens, on Monday morning as it was setting sail towards the Cyclades. The "Flyingcat 4" was grounded in shallow waters. Passengers were evacuated by small boats to the...

For the first time in ten years, a ferry service was launched on Saturday connecting Thessaloniki, in northern Greece with the Aegean islands and Crete. The route, operated by ferry company Seajets, will run twice a week for three months...