The Corinth Canal will reopen to navigation on June 1, 2023 and for four months, that is until September 30,, the Canal’s managing company announced on Friday. The Corinth Canal company said that the final stages of restoration work on the canal will resume on October 1 and will continue …

The Corinth Canal has closed again to sea traffic and will re-open next summer, the Corinth Canal Company said in an announcement on Tuesday. According to the statement, the Canal closed at 07:00 a.m. on October 4, 2022, The first phase of the re-operation of the Corinth Canal ended on …

Some 200 crossings through the Corinth Canal have been recorded since it reopened on July 4. The managing company of the Canal sees the number of crossings to have reached over 6,500 by October. The Canal reopened after substantial landslides over the last couple of years and the completion of …

The Corinth Canal has been operating normally since Monday, July 4, 2022, while the first crossings have already taken place, the managing company said Tuesday noon, dismissing media reports of the previous day about a temporary closure. The Corinth Canal Corporation (AEDIK) said in an announcement that the Canal operates …

The Corinth Canal will temporarily reopen for three months on Monday, July 4,  2022, to accommodate summer maritime traffic. It will close in the winter months for restoration works and will open again for 4 summer months in 2023 and close again for the completion of the works. The project …

The Corinth Canal will reopen for ships in July, the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations SA (HCAP) said on Wednesday. The reopening will be temporary, though, over the summer and will shut down again for a few months in autumn in order to complete repair works and stabilize the …

Work on the walls and basin of the Corinth Canal will begin in January 2022, Deputy Environment & Energy Minister Nikos Tagaras said last Thursday. The canal was shut down in January 2021 and remains closed to sea traffic ever since after the last of a series of landslides made …

More landslides occurred in the Canal of Corinth last week creating headache to the experts trying to restore the previous ones that they have forced the shut down of the Canal since January. A new, big landslide occurred on Thursday, July 16, 2021, on the slope of the Peloponnese side. …

Cruise passengers held their breath as a 22.5 meter wide cruise liner became the largest boat to pass through Greece’s 26-meter narrow Corinth Canal last week, its operator Fred Olsen said in a statement. Carrying 929 passengers on board, the Braemar cruise liner narrowly managed to squeeze through the rocky …

The company managing the Corinth Canal said in a statement that marine traffic has not be halted. There is only a partial limitation for ships crossing, the company said in a statement. Early Thursday afternoon, rocks fell into the Canal and local media reported that the passage was closed to …

Rocks detached from the walls of the Corinth Canal and forced the managing company and the Greek Coast Guard to temporarily close the water passage for ships and yachts on Thursday afternoon. So far the reason for the rock-slide is not known. For the time being it is also not …

The Corinth Canal remains closed to marine traffic after  big rocks fell into the water due to landslides on Monday. The Greek Coast Guard immediately decided to close the Canal for ship and yacht passage. An impressive drone footage by group Up Drones shows the whole damage that has immense …

Greece’s Shipping Ministry closed the Corinth Canal for marine traffic on Monday after torrential rains caused a big landslide and rocks fell in the middle of the canal passage making traffic impossible. The Canal will remain closed for about 15 days, the ministry said. Video footage from the area show …

The Fire Service of Corinth launched a big rescue operation on Monday, to bring a French tourist to safety. The woman had fallen down the slope of the Canal of Corinth. Ιt was a tree that saved her life. She had managed to hold on a tree until the rescuers …

Thousands of motorists are trapped on the Athens-Corinth highway since the early morning Monday due to the damages caused by storm Geryon in Kinetta, western Attica. Closed is also the old national road Athens-Corinth.Both directions of the highway were closed to traffic short after the dawn, immobilizing hundreds of private …

Magic Johnson is crazy about Greece, he feels like a “Greek God” and is dressed like one too. The 63-year-old NBA legend is touring Greece for the second summer in a row and is enjoying the Greek seas, the culture and the food. The Phoenix 2 crew put on a …

Earvin Magic Johnson is not only an NBA legend but also “the best ambassador for Greece” in summer 2022. With his spouse and friends, he has been touring the islands in the Aegean and the Ionian Seas since the start of July, having fun. He captures every moment in the …

The Greek Coast Guard located and seized 46.71 kg of cocaine in a freighter anchored near Corinth and arrested 23 foreign nationals, all crew members, late on Monday. The ship had set sail from a Brazilian port and was going to dock at a coastal facility in the area of …

Colonies of jellyfish appeared on the shores of the Ionian Sea, this summer and they reached the Greek sea from the coastal areas of Spain, France and Italy. According to Professor of Environmental Chemistry of the Chemistry Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Konstantinos Phytianos, no one can say …

The deadly flood where two people died in Agia Pelagia on the island of Crete has triggered the intervention of the local judicial authorities that ordered an urgent preliminary investigation. The head of the Prosecutor’s Office of Heraklion, Thanasis Galina, ordered on Monday an urgent preliminary examination for the deadly …