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1. Piraeus Port: A port of large sizes.

The port of Piraeus is the largest passenger port in the

world and one of the largest ports in Europe. It has 44 km

seawalls and facilities covering inland port areas in 4 municipalities

of Piraeus, Keratsini - Drapetsona, Perama and Salamina. It

serves annually 40.000 ship arrivals/departures, 18.000.000

passengers, 3.000.000 vehicles, 500.000 vehicles - goods (car-

terminal) and 2.500.000 containers (PCT and PPA).

The port of Piraeus is a port of complex activities: It

exercises work in 7 sectors of port activity: (a) Coastal

shipping, (b) Cruise, (c) Car-terminal, (d) Ro-Ro, (e) Containers, (f)

Ship repair and (g) Environmental and Logistics operations. It is

the main port of coastal shipping, connecting mainland Greece and

the islands, the main cruise port (50%), the main port for

containers (90%), the main port for cars (95%) of the country.

It is the only port that offers all the required port services: water,

fuel oil, solid and liquid receptacle tankers, residual oil, electricity,

fiber optics and internet, victuals, repairs, environmental services

and it is fully connected to all activities with modern computer

systems.

The port of Piraeus is the only major port in the

Mediterranean, which has been certified by ESPO and Lloyd's as

ECOPORT. It employs 15 contiguous and revolving programs of

environmental protection for the land, water and gas space control,

wit a cost of 2.224.000 euros.

The port of Piraeus, under the management of PPA SA, is one
of the few companies in the country which operates 365 days a

year, with 24 hours of continuous operation, applying all
Community and national rules of Transparency.

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