Sea Tourism

Ferry company ANEK LINES has announced new special discounts on ferry tickets for passengers traveling to Chania, Crete.

Greece appears among the top options of international cruise operators who are now drafting their 2014 schedules.

Merchant Marine Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said the Greek Government would offer its full support to the bill that simplifies the licensing and operation of waterways in Greek waters.

Two Greek companies recently joined forces in a bid to develop waterways across Greece and offer passenger transport via seaplanes.

Blue Star Ferries announced the one year anniversary since the ultra modern addition to its fleet, the Blue Star Patmos vessel, was launched on the the Piraeus-Chios-Mytilini route.

The third Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum will be held May 2015 in Athens, the event’s organizers confirmed recently.

NEL LINES has informed that due to the annual inspection of the THEOFILOS vessel, the following routes to the islands of the eastern Aegean, Ikaria and Samos, will be canceled from Sunday 23 June until Saturday 29 June…

ANEK Lines was one of the five Greek companies that participated this year in “Transport Logistics 2013,” the world’s largest exhibition for transport and logistics, held in Munich 4-7 June.

Four international cruise companies are currently in discussions with the Heraklion Port Authority to include the Cretan cruise destination as a homeport for their ships by 2015, according to the authority’s president and CEO, Yiannis Bras.

Greece’s cumbersome, complex and constantly changing legislative and regulatory frameworks in the pleasure boat segment and lagging marina infrastructure cost the country billions in lost tourism revenues each year, according to speakers at the 2nd Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum, which concluded last week in Athens.