The Board of Port of Piraeus Authority (PPA), following the adoption by the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of the environmental conditions, approved three steps to expand cruise facilities in the port.
The first one entails approval of the construction of the project “Expansion of the Passenger Port of Piraeus - Cruise South Side”, while the second approval of the notice for a contract providing technical consultancy services for the same project and finally, approval of the funding application and other accompanying documents to the project.
Due to the increase in traffic at the cruise port of Piraeus (+151% over the last decade from 2002 to 2012), the construction of new generation cruise ships (over 300 metres), it was decided in the context of the Investment Program of PPA SA (2010 - 2015) to extend the southern part of the passenger port, a project that will make the port of Piraeus the main hub the Mediterranean cruise sector, the port said in a statement.
