Ships and ferries throughout Greece will remain docked at the country’s port on Wednesday, April 17 following a decision by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation to join the 24-hour nationwide strike called by the Confederation of Employees of Greece (ADEDY). Central demands of the strike are action to deal with inflation …
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UPD Greece: Air traffic controllers, seamen unions join 24h strike on Sept 21
Air traffic controllers and several seamen unions said on Tuesday that they will join the 24-hour panhellenic strike on September 21, 2023. The strike is being launched by several workers unions and social organization in order to protest the new Labor Law. UPDATE: The Air traffic controllers strike has been …
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Greece’s Seamen Federation extends strike to Dec 13
The Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) announced an extension of the 48-hour sailors’ strike for all categories of ships until December 13, 2021. The extension strike starts at 00:01 on Sunday, December 12, and ends at midnight on Monday, December 13, state run news agency amna reports on Saturday evening. The …
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Ferries, ships docked as Greece’s seamen go on 48h strike, Dec 10-11
Ferries and ships will remain docked as Greece’s seamen federation PNO has announced it will launch a 48-hour strike on December 10-11, 2021. The strike will affect all categories of ships. It will start at 00:01 on Friday, December 10 and end at midnight Saturday, December 11, 2021. According to …
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Ferries to remain docked at Greece’s ports due to seamen’s 48h strike
Ferries will remained docked at the country’s port as Greece’s Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation PNO is launching a 48-hour strike starting on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. The two-day PNO strike by the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) starts at 6.01 a.m. and ends at 6:01 a.m. on Friday, November 12. The Federation …
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Ferry with 120 passengers tested “positive” to dock at Piraeus port (UPD)
120 seamen, passengers on ferry “Eleftherios Venizelos”, have been tested positive to coronavirus. The infection cases add to another 40 tested positive on the two previous days. The ferry with 383 passengers and crew on board and chartered by a Turkish company remains anchored off the port of Piraeus since …
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Ferries docked on Sept 24 due to 24h general strike in Greece
Ferries and ships will remain docked on Tuesday, September 24, 2019, due to a 24-hour strike decided by the Greek Seamen and Dockworkers Federations, PNO and PENEN. The PNO leadership decided to launch the 24-hour strike nationwide for crew of all ships categories. Ferries and ships will remain docked from …
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Ferries to remain docked due to 24h strike by the Greek seamen union
Ferries and ships will remain docked at Greek ports for 24 hours after the Greek Seamen Federation PNO decided today to launch a strike scheduled for Wednesday, July 3, 2019. The PNO meeting was held in order for the federation to examine the new proposals by ship owners for the …
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Ferries, ships to remain docked due to Greece’s sailors 24h strike
The Greek Seamen Federation has announced it will launch a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, April 18th 2018. The strike will affect all types of ships and ferries that will remain docked as of 06:00 a.m. on the strike day. In a statement, the Federation PNO said the strike aims to …
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Ferries and ships to remain docked as Greece’s Seamen launch 24h strike
Ferries and ships across Greece’s ports will remain docked after the Greek Seamen Federation decided to launch a 24-hour strike. The strike will start at 00:01 a.m. Friday, January 12th 2018 and will end Friday midnight. The date of the strike has been chosen to coincide with the day government …
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Greece seamen union extends strike until May 19/2017
The Pan-Hellenic Maritime Federation (PNO) decided to launch a 48-hour strike for all categories of ships on May 16-17 2017. The strike will start at 00:01 Tuesday May 16th and end at 24:00 on Wednesday, May 17th.and ending at 24.00 on Wednesday, 16 May. The PNO warns of escalating its …
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No ferries on May 1st 2017 as Greek sailors on 24h strike
All passenger ferries will remain docked across Greece on Monday, May 1, as the Pan-Hellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) will go on a 24-hour strike to mark May Day. Among claims, the Greek seamen are demanding that their labor and social security rights are restored to pre-memorandum levels and that collective …
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Seamen Federation ends strike on Sat, Dec 10/2016
The Greek Seamen Federation (PNO) decided with 10:4 votes to end the strike on Saturday morning. Ferry boats and ships will operate as usual – however at first with some modifications. The PNO said, however, that the problems have not been solved and that there may be similar actions in …
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Crete Strike: Angry farmers throw flares at seamen, set offices of shipping company on fire (videos)
The port of Heraklion on the island of Crete turned into a battle field when hundreds of raging farmers attacked striking seamen and set the ticket offices of ANEK shipping company on fire on Friday evening. Angry about the ongoing strike of the seamen, the farmers threw flares at a …
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Seamen strike extended until Dec 11/2016, shortages on the islands
The Greek Seamen Federation (PNO) decided to extend its strike until 06:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 11th 2016. Minister for Maritime, Panagiotis Kouroublis, reassured the strikers that there will be no change in the taxation of the seamen neither in 2016, nor in 2017 and 2018 – however without success. …
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Every winter… in the Aegean Sea: Ferry sailing in bad weather (video)
Every winter the same procedure. Greek sailors fighting the rough sea and the bad weather to transfer passengers and transport goods between the mainland and the islands. This time, the video of Blue Star Ferry Paros reminded me of the poem of Greek poet and academic Zacharias Papantoniou, the poem …
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Greek seamen on 24h strike, Nov 6/2013
The union of Greek seamen PNO decided to join the 24-hour strike launched by private sector union umbrella GSEE on November 6th 2013. Ferries and ships will remain docked at the major harbors of the country.
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UPD: Two cargo vessels collide off SW Greece, “PiriReis” sinks, 10 seamen missing
Two cargo vessels collided in the early morning hours of Monday with one of them to have sunk 78 nautical miles south west of Methoni, Peloponnese. Cargo ship “PiriReis” under Cook Islands flag with 17 Syrian seamen crew “sunk within 7 minutes” survivors said according to Greek media. Eight seamen …
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Greece’s Seamen on strike, May 1/2013
Greek seamen federation PNO will launch a 24-hour strike on May 1st 2013.
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Greek seamen on 24h strike, Apr 16/2013
Greek seamen union PNO will launch a 24-hour strike on April 16th 2013. The strike will start Tuesday at 6 a.m. and end on Wednesday 6 a.m.
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