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The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Greek: Υπουργείο Υποδομών και Μεταφορών) is a government department of Greece headquartered in Cholargos, Athens. [ 1 ] The ministry is currently headed by Christos Staikouras, who also served as Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis .
The headquarters of the Ministry of Shipping at the Port of Piraeus.. The Ministry of Shipping and Insular Policy (Greek: Υπουργείο Ναυτιλίας και Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής) is a government department of Greece responsible for managing the nation's maritime and shipping sectors, as well as developing policies concerning the country's numerous islands.
Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea.
Transport in Greece has undergone significant changes in the past two decades, vastly modernizing the country's infrastructure and transportation. Although ferry transport between islands remains the prominent method of transport between the nation's islands, improvements to the road infrastructure, rail, urban transport, and airports have all ...
The regions of Greece (Greek: περιφέρειες, romanized: periféreies) are the country's thirteen second-level administrative entities, counting decentralized administrations of Greece as first-level. Regions are divided into regional units, known as prefectures until 2011.
This is a list of ministries of Greece. Greece is a country in Southern Europe, politically considered part of Western Europe.Greece is a parliamentary republic.Executive power is exercised by the president of the Republic and the government.
The traditional geographic regions of Greece (Greek: γεωγραφικά διαμερίσματα, lit. 'geographic departments') are the country's main historical-geographic regions, and were also official administrative regional subdivisions of Greece until the 1987 administrative reform. [ 1 ]
Flag of the Hellenic Coast Guard flown in front of the Coast Guard offices in Rethymno Harbour. The Hellenic Coast Guard is under the authority of the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy, [9] which is headed by a commandant and assisted by two deputy commandants who all have the rank of vice admiral (Antinavarchos).