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Shipping Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis resigned on Monday morning over the brutal murder of 36-year-old ferry passenger Antonis by crew members last week. Two of the four arrested crew members of the ferry “Blue Horizon” were jailed until their trial. Varvitsiotis was forced to resign by the Prime minister, state broadcaster …

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Nektarios Santorinios, the SYRIZA MP for the Dodecanese islands and former deputy minister for shipping, has died. He was 50 years old. Santorinios died of cancer in a hospital on his native Rhodes, in the southeastern Aegean, according to an announcement on Monday. The Greek Parliament held a minute of …

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“Τhe green digital vaccination certificate, the rapid tests and self tests will be used for voyages with ferries,” Greece’s Shipping and Islands Police Minister Giannis Plakiotakis said on Tuesday. He said that ferries with cabins will start with 55% occupancy and 50% ferries without cabins. Health protocols will be reviewed …

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Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis was transferred to an ICU bed for precautionary reasons on Tuesday morning. The Minister was tested positive on Covid-19 a week ago and has been hospitalized in Evangelismos Hospital in Athens since last Saturday. According to media, Plakiotakis developed fever and his oxygen levels dropped at …

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Greece is shielding all its maritime borders with thermal cameras and radars, that is in the Aegean and the Ionian Sea as well as off the island of Crete. “Our islands have a continental shelf and EEZ and we will defend our national rights,” Minister of Shipping and Islands Policy, …

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With five days delay and under the heavy attack by political parties of the Greek opposition Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis inspected some areas affected by the oil spill in the Saronic Gulf. In a press conference he dismissed opposition claims that the state reacted with delay to the ecological disaster …

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