Motor Oil S.A. and Public Power Corporation PPC S.A. announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding agreement whereby they undertake the responsibility to establish the framework and carry out, through a Joint Venture scheme, investment projects related to the green Hydrogen sector. The participation of MOTOR OIL (HELLAS) S.A. in the joint [...]
by Professor Vassilis Papadakis, Vice Rector of International Cooperation and Growth at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) The Athens University of Economics and Business is one of the most extrovert tertiary institution in Greece. Its impressive, for its size, Erasmus program, hosts more than 370 European students every year. To strengthen its [...]
Of optimist outlooks and of missing elements by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Fitch Ratings may have not been kind enough to grant Greece the much-awaited upgrade from BB to BB+, which would bring Greek paper just one notch short of investment grade (the same disappointment was felt when Moody’s denied the same upgrade last November – [...]
Athens, 10 January 2022 PRESS RELEASE Euphoria in the Shipping World Is it for real? Slide2Open Shipping Finance 2022 Phygital Conference Experience What a difference a year makes! Compared to our previous conference, most markets have taken off with unprecedented ferocity. But is this going to be one more shipping boom and [...]
The Greek government decided to extend travel restrictions with Albania at least until January 24. The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that all Albanian nationals traveling to Greece, regardless of their vaccination status, are obliged to present a negative PCR test taken no longer than 72 hours prior to travel, or [...]
Dr. Anna Bredima (abredima@yahoo.gr) talks to Katalin Dobranszky-Bartus, Director of Economic and Financial Affairs at European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA, katalin.dobranszky@ecsa.eu) Taxonomy comes from the Ancient Greek word “taxinomia”, meaning “the science of classification”. As there has been a steady retreat of the biggest world banks from shipping, the sector is in [...]
The Chinese company HAI ROBOTICS announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Greece's Voyatzoglou Systems, in a joint effort to offer more smart warehousing solutions to the supply chain in Greece and the Balkan area. The alliance marked the third the company has ever concluded in Europe as it keeps securing more footholds [...]
How the divisive/contentious Greek political system reached consensus over the pandemic (but, please, don’t tell them!) by Antonis D. Papagiannidis With a time-lag of some weeks over European countries, Greece is coming under the new-fourth or fifth – depends on how you count them – wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the lightning spread of [...]
The Hellenic Aviation Authority has announced new rules for traveling to Greece, coming into force from 06:00 Monday, January 10, 2022 and valid until Monday, January 24, 2022. The new rules are: All travelers older than 5 years old, regardless of nationality and vaccination status, must have been tested negative by PCR within the last [...]
An Italian museum is lending a fragment of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, in what both sides hope will become a permanent return that might encourage others to send their own pieces of the works back, too. Sicily’s regional archaeological museum said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Acropolis Museum in Athens for [...]
