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The huge port city of Marseille, France was founded by Greeks back in 600 BC, when the first immigrants established a trading colony.

One of the largest ships in the world, the newly built "OOCL Piraeus", arrived earlier in the week for the first time in the port of Piraeus, Greece. The Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd (OOCL) vessel was greeted at a...

An oil spill from a cargo ship in the Port of Thessaloniki on Thursday has alarmed authorities who are racing against time to prevent pollution from spreading further. Although the spill is relatively small, covering an area of approximately seventy...

The ancient Greek city of Ephesus on the coast of Ionia, located in the western province of İzmir, is set to once again have a harbor on the Aegean coast, according to an ambitious new project. Turkish daily Hurriyet reports...

Greece announced on Thursday it had received two offers for the majority stake of the Alexandroupolis port, a key point of entry to Europe for arms and energy imports. One is by Quintana, an American company with interests in the...

US forces are preparing for what is described as the largest-ever military landing in Greece, which is scheduled for November at Alexandroupolis. A large number of helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), tanks, cannons, and artillery are expected to reach the...

The port of Alexandroupolis in north-eastern Greece has assumed strategic importance for the U.S., the American ambassador to Greece said

Greece's port of Piraeus has now become the Mediterranean’s top container-handling port, it was reported on May 19. The port, located just outside Athens, handled the equivalent of 5.65 million 20-foot long containers in 2019, rising to become the top...

The U.S. State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Matthew Palmer, declared on Saturday from the border city of Alexandroupolis that "We are here to underscore our firm commitment to this project, to...

The Greek authorities have recently given the green light for the reintroduction of a ferry connection between mainland Greece and Cyprus, a line that has stopped operating since 2000. The decision to speed up all necessary measures was taken following...