Car loading dock at Piraeus port ready by September

The announcement was made after a conference at the Port Authority of Piraeus (OLP) main offices between the managing directors of OLP, Giorgos Anomeritis, and ErgOSE, the large projects subsidiary of Hellenic Railways (TrainOSE), Kostas Spiliopoulos.

Pending work on the container and car terminals will be completed by end-June, the officials said.

Talks among TrainOSE, OLP, and shipping and

logistics companies have continued ahead of the expected completion of the car terminal area by September. The cargo rail line linking the Thriasio valley (which includes the refineries towns of Elefsis and Aspropyrgos) with the facilities of Chinese-owned container company Cosco in Neo Ikonio, 17 km long, was completed in February. An extension will be added to OLP.

The railway will convey goods and cars between OLP, through the Cosco container terminal, on to Thriasio, helping move merchandise and cars faster from Piraeus on to markets in the Balkans and Europe, and facilitate trade with Asia as well.amna

Cars handled through the Piraeus port reached close to half a million cars in 2012 (458,755), of which 403,970 were conveyed through OLP to other ports in the Mediterranean, while 54,785 were imported to Greece. OLP said the figures show an overall increase of 9.8 pct over 2011. The number of cars sent through Piraeus to other Mediterranean ports went up by 22.8 pct in 2012, while domestic imports dropped by 38.2 pct.

In March, Greece’s state-owned TrainOSE signed a major agreement with Cosco and Hewlett-Packard to use the facilities in the distribution of the American electronic giant’s products to European, African and Middle Eastern markets.

Source: ΑΜΝΑ