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Pages in category "Mediterranean port cities and towns in Greece" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total.
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Port cities and towns in Greece (1 C) Pages in category "Ports and harbours of Greece" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Until the 3rd millennium BC, Piraeus was a rocky island connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year. It was then that the area was increasingly silted and flooding ceased, thus permanently connecting Piraeus to Attica and forming its ports, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia.
Earnings from shipping amounted to €35.4 billion in 2014, [12] while between 2000 and 2010 Greek shipping contributed [citation needed] a total of €280 billion [12] (almost the country's public debt in 2014 and 4.5 times the receipts from the European Union in the period 2000–2013). [12]
The Port of Thessaloniki (Greek: Λιμάνι της Θεσσαλονίκης) is the main maritime gateway to Southeast, Central and Eastern Europe, strategically located in Northern Greece close to the major Trans-European motorway and railway networks with direct access to the Southeastern European countries.
As a result, Greece's shipowners left Piraeus en masse in favour of operations in London, New York, Alexandria and other major shipping cities. Today the port of Piraeus ranks 7th in Europe and the 1st in the Mediterranean in terms of TEUs transported through it each year. [40] [41]