The upgrading of Greece’s largest port and its rising importance in international trade were some of the points noted during the official opening on Monday of extension works at Pier III and the inaugural stop of the giga-container ship “Cosco Shipping Taurus”, ANA reports.
The Pier III project is expected to be completed by August 2018 and be able to accommodate two giga-carriers at the same time. These are ships that can handle 20,000 containers of the standard 20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) each, Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis noted. In addition, “the placement in position of the new 80,000-ton floating reservoir will free more space at the air-congested ship repair zone.”
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