PIRAEUS Top Stories
Greek finance minister takes charge of socialist party
Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos speaks during a news conference in Athens, on Thursday, March 15, 2012.
The Guardian: With general elections due to take place as early as 29 April, Venizelos's selection as leader of what has traditionally been the country's biggest leftist force is seen...
Euro 2012 Team of the Week: Hat-trick heroes Gerrard, Gomez & Huntelaar debut
Schalke's Raul of Spain, center, celebrates after scoring the second goal with Edu from Brazil, left, and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar of the Netherlands during the German first division Bundesliga soccer match between FC Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010.
Goal: Each week, Goal.com selects the best performers from Europe's top leagues, honouring the best players eligible for Euro 2012. This week, Spain lead the way with three...
Greece debt swap deadline raises tensions
Protesters hold a banner with a European Union flag in central Athens on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. About 7,000 people took part in two separate, peaceful marches in a drizzly Athens, against the center-left government's austerity plan to ease Greece out of a major debt crisis.
BBC News: Investors remained tense ahead of a deadline for a Greek debt swap deal that may determine whether or not the country can remain in the euro. Investors have until 2000...
Lionel Messi wants to be coached by Marcelo Bielsa - here are the possible successors ...
Referee Turienzo Alvarez, left, shows a yellow card to FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match against Espanyol at Cornella-El Prat stadium in Cornella Llobregat, Spain, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012.
Goal: The Catalan coach remains coy over his future and has yet to commit to a fifth season at Camp Nou. So if he does decide to leave, who could possibly step in? Goal.com...
 
Piraeus Port back in the black in first quarter2012-05-14
Kathimerini: PiraeusPort Authority (OLP), the operator of Greece’s...
Piraeus port container traffic posts growth2012-05-12
Kathimerini: PiraeusPort Authority SA (OLP), which operates Greece’s biggest port, said containers handled at Pier I in the first quarter rose 46...
Piraeus terminal is thriving2012-04-23
Kathimerini: Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT), the subsidiary of China’sCosco, is going from strength to strength through Dock II of the country’s main port, as in the first...
Interest expressed in Egyptian arm of Piraeus Bank2012-04-05
Kathimerini: The sale of the Egyptian arm of Greece's Piraeus Bank, valued at over $200 million, has attracted five potential...
Post office employee shot, killed in Piraeus2012-03-29
Kathimerini: An employee in the central post office of Piraeus died of a gunshot wound on Thursday, after witnesses said that a man,...
Car plunges into sea in Piraeus2012-03-19
Kathimerini: A car plunged into the sea in the port...
Armed robber detained by DIAS officers in Piraeus2012-03-13
Kathimerini: A 43-year-old man was to face a Piraeus prosecutor on Tuesday after...
US-flagged ship on fire off Greece's Piraeus port2012-03-12
The Guardian: ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say a fire has broken out on a US-flagged vehicle carrier ship carrying 28 people off the country's main port of Piraeus. A coast guard statement says firefighting ships are trying to extinguish the blaze on the Alliance...
Athens, Piraeus not joining 2-day pharmacists' strike2012-03-07
Kathimerini: Pharmacies in Athens and Piraeus will be operating as normal on Thursday and Friday,...
Athens, Piraeus pharmacies says 'no' to strike2012-03-06
Kathimerini: Pharmacies in Athens and Piraeus are not participating in a two-day national strike set to take place on Thursday and...
 
 
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