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OOCL’s New 24,188 TEU Container Vessel Named OOCL Piraeus
Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd. (OOCL) hosted the naming ceremony of a brand-new 24,188 TEU vessel container today at the Dalian COSCO KHI Ship Engineering Co., Ltd. (DACKS) shipyard. The mega containership is named as OOCL Piraeus, and becomes …
May 30, 2023 / Vessels
Euroseas Ltd. Announces Agreement to Acquire a 1,740 teu Container Vessel, built in 2006 and Agreement to Enter into a Three-year Charter for the Vessel
Euroseas Ltd. (NASDAQ: ESEA, Euroseas), an owner and operator of container carrier vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for containerized cargoes, announced on Tuesday (Sep 07) that it has agreed to acquire M/V Piraeus Trader, a 1,740 teu …
Sep 8, 2021 / Vessels
Greek navy minesweeper Kallisto damaged after collision with containership Maersk Launceston
A Greek navy minesweeper and a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship collided Tuesday outside the country’s main port of Piraeus, leaving two navy crew slightly injured and prompting the evacuation of the severely damaged military vessel.It was not …
Oct 27, 2020 / Accidents
Piraeus Port Authority held Inauguration ceremony for the “Cruise Terminal Expansion” project
The inauguration ceremony of the Cruise Terminal Expansion project was held Tuesday (Feb25 at the cruise terminal of Piraeus. It is a project with an initial budget € 120 million, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through Priority …
Feb 28, 2020 / Curious
MSC Lirica To Homeport In Piraeus For Summer 2021
MSC Cruises will deploy MSC Lirica to the Eastern Mediterranean market in summer 2021 and she will homeport in Piraeus (Athens), Greece for the entire season.MSC Lirica will offer a newly-designed innovative itinerary 7-night cruises on 23 separate …
Jan 23, 2020 / Cruise
FSL Trust sells two LR2 product tankers
FSL Trust Management Pte. Ltd., as trustee-manager of First Ship Lease Trust (FSL Trust), announces that wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Trust have executed Memoranda of Agreement to sell two LR2 product tankers, FSL Piraeus and FSL Perth, to an …
Nov 20, 2019 / Vessels
One of world's largest container ships docks at Port of Piraeus, Greece
COSCO Shipping Pisces, one the world's largest container ships with a capacity of 20,000 TEU, docked at Greece's Piraeus port on Friday afternoon, after sailing nearly a month from China.It's the ship's first voyage since it was delivered on Jan. 15 …
Feb 19, 2019 / Vessels
Port Authority of Piraeus Signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ports of Venice and Chioggia to strengthen the cargo flows
The CEO of the Port Authority of Piraeus, Captain Fu Chengqiu and the President of the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority, Pino Musolino, during a meeting held at the PPA headquarters, signed yesterday a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at …
Feb 12, 2019 / Curious
Greece-registered carrier collides with Marine Dept vessel in Johor new port limits (VIDEO)
A Greece-registered bulk carrier has collided with the Malaysian Marine Department vessel MV Polaris that is anchored in the Johor new port limits Sunday morning.The carrier named Pireaus was en route from Singapore to the Tanjung Pelepas Port in …
Feb 11, 2019 / Accidents