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07 Jun 2018

DFDS Completes Acquisition of U.N. Ro-Ro

Danish shipping and logistics group DFDS has completed the acquisition of Turkey’s largest operator of Ro-Ro freight ships and will be a major player in the strong and continuously growing trade between the EU and Turkey. In April, DFDS signed an agreement with the owners of  U.N. Ro-Ro to acquire the shares in the company, said a press release from the company. “All relevant authorities have now approved the transaction and I am very pleased to announce that on 7 June we completed the deal. U.N. Ro-Ro and its strong Mediterranean shipping network are now part of DFDS,” says Niels Smedegaard, CEO & President of DFDS. U.N. Ro-Ro operates…

13 Mar 2018

Migrant Influx Puts Greek Port on Edge

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The migrants bolted across a street and clambered over a fence into the Greek port at Patras, scouting around for trucks to stow away in. Dozens at a time scaled a 2-km stretch of fence one afternoon last week, playing cat-and-mouse with police officers who pushed them back only for the men to try again hours later. They are part of a growing number of migrants in Greece trying daily to smuggle themselves onto ferries at Patras to get to Italy. It's a dangerous passage but it has become more appealing since the closure in 2016 of the overland Balkan route to northern Europe.

06 May 2015

At Greek port, Migrants Try for Italy

Rapper Mahdi Babika Mohamed's journey to a better life in Europe started in his native Sudan and passed through Libya and Turkey before abruptly ending in a squalid abandoned factory at Greece's western port of Patras. There, the 37-year-old is one of hundreds of migrants making desperate attempts to board ferries to Italy by hanging on to the underside of cargo trucks - usually unsuccessfully. "We come from a country in war to another war here in Patras," said Mohamed. Patras is no longer on the frontline of Greece's migrant crisis as it was six years ago when authorities shut down a makeshift camp in the port where hundreds of migrants had lived in squalid conditions.

23 Sep 2014

ecoTAURuS Aims to AccelerateTerminal Process

Photo courtesy of Inlecom

Inlecom Systems Ltd (Inlecom), the transport and logistics research and innovation company, has launched ecoTAURuS, the e-transport solution for real time truck – terminal collaboration and planning of actions. The new service has been designed specifically to speed up and optimize the loading and unloading process in multimodal terminals and has been supported via the European FP7 Research and Development EcoHubs project. ecoTAURuS delivers a service that allows stakeholders…

04 May 2001

ANEK Lines Takes New Ship

Greek ferry operator ANEK Lines was scheduled to take delivery of the newly built Hellenic Spirit from Norwegian shipyard Fosen Mekaniske Verksteder A.S. The vessel is the second newbuilding from the Norwegian shipyard after Olympic Champion. The two ships cost ANEK Lines $221 million, financed by a syndicated loan led by JP Morgan Chase. The new ships can cover the sea route from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona in Italy in 18 hours.

06 Jun 2001

Fire On Greek Ferry

A fire in the engine room of a Greek ferry carrying 531 passengers and 111 crew from Venice to the Greek port of Patras left the vessel out of control near the Italian coast, the Merchant Marine Ministry said. It said no one on the ferry Aretoussa, owned by Greece's Minoan Lines, was injured in the fire, which was quickly extinguished by the crew. - (Reuters)

05 Nov 1999

Eleven Immigrants Killed In Ferry Fire

At least 11 illegal immigrants died in a fire last Monday on an Italy-bound Greek ferry with more than 400 people aboard, Merchant Marine Ministry officials said. They said the body of a man, believed to be another Kurd immigrant, was found by firefighters in the back of a truck in the garage where a fire broke out. "We also found two passports but have not verified if they belonged to stowaways or regular passengers," one official said. Like 10 others - eight men and two women - found dead in the garage level of the Superfast 3 ferry, the latest victim appeared to have suffocated from smoke. All 307 passengers and most of the 106 crew…