Kikilias: Port of Patras’ master plan approved

The Master Plan for the Port of Patras has been approved done the issuance of the applicable Presidential Decree, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Vassilis Kikilias, said.

According to the Ministry, this marks a pivotal step toward upgrading 1 of the country’s astir important ports. The caller model sets retired the port’s improvement strategy, including wide provisions connected onshore use, infrastructure projects, traffic management, and biology permitting.

As highlighted by the Ministry, the support is the effect of a lengthy process, to which the Patras Port Authority S.A. made a important contribution, some successful the readying signifier and successful the mentation of the indispensable studies and approvals.

Key provisions of the Master Plan

The Master Plan places accent connected strengthening cargo enactment and planetary connectivity, improving ferry services and rider facilities, and advancing tourism improvement done modern infrastructure, such arsenic the marina successful the Northern Port. It besides provides for vigor infrastructure, including Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities, and the enhancement of obstruction connectivity.

Particular absorption is placed connected the Southern Port, which is acceptable to go a cardinal hub for cargo and vigor activities, while the Northern Port will beryllium developed for tourism, passenger, and municipality uses.

As noted by the Ministry, the caller program establishes a stable model for concern and enhances prospects for occupation creation, while incorporating the requirements of European and nationalist biology legislation, with a view to ensuring the port’s sustainable operation.

The support forms portion of a broader strategy to upgrade the country’s ports and strengthen their relation arsenic drivers of growth, connectivity, and Greece’s vigor beingness successful the Eastern Mediterranean.

Kikilias stated: “The support of the Master Plan for the Port of Patras paves the way for further development, investment, and occupation creation. We are strengthening cargo activity, upgrading ferry services and services to citizens, and moving guardant with the improvement of modern tourism and vigor infrastructure.”

“The program is portion of the Ministry’s wide strategy to modernize and heighten the relation of ports successful the country’s maturation trajectory,” Kikilias added.