Head of Greece's Biggest Port Piraeus Resigns
The head of Greece's biggest port Piraeus will step down, a statement said on Wednesday, after the port was once more named as a target for privatisation in the country's cash-for-reforms negotiations with international creditors. Chief Executive Yiorgos Anomeritis has headed the port since 2009. In February, he had informed the new leftist-led government he would stay on until the company's annual shareholder meeting -- which takes place on Saturday -- to help the government in their first months in power. Piraeus Port is majority state-owned and China's Cosco has been operating two of the port's cargo piers since 2008. The sale of…
Inchcape Shipping Celebrates 25th Anniversary of ISS Greece
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), the world’s leading maritime services provider, has this month celebrated the 25th anniversary of its operations in Greece by hosting its annual senior management conference in Athens, close to the company’s Greek head office in the Port of Piraeus. Over 170 ISS employees, including the entire senior management team, congregated to enjoy three days of strategic development activity, events, networking and customer engagement. The packed three day agenda featured a number of highlights including the announcement of the ISS Employee of the Year 2014, presented by ISS’ Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr John Coghlan, to Richard Reyes of ISS GMT, Manila.
EU Countries Propose MARPOL Amendments in Prestige Response
The Secretary-General of IMO, William O’Neil, received from all the fifteen Member States of the European Union, each of which is a Party to the MARPOL Convention, a set of formal proposals to change certain provisions of the MARPOL Convention. In essence, the proposals call for further acceleration of the phase-out timetable for single-hull tankers, an immediate ban on the carriage of heavy grades of oil in single-hull tankers and for the Condition Assessment Scheme (adopted in 2001 in the wake of the 1999 Erika incident) to be applied to tankers of 15 years of age and above. The proposals will be circulated among all IMO Member States and Parties to MARPOL prior to their consideration at the 49th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC)…
