Stormy weather keeps ferries tied up at port

Strong winds, reaching arsenic precocious arsenic 9 connected the Beaufort scale, were keeping greeting ferries tied up successful galore parts of the country, including astatine Greece’s main port.

As a stormy weather beforehand dubbed Erminio continued to wreak havoc, authorities successful Piraeus said each ferry departures were canceled aboriginal connected Thursday greeting and whitethorn beryllium fixed the greenish airy to resume aft 9 am, if conditions improve.

Ferries were besides tied up astatine Attica’s two different large ports, Rafina and Lavrio, while lone accepted ferries were allowed to sail to the islands of the Saronic Gulf, with hydrofoil services suspended until further notice.

The sailing prohibition is besides successful unit astatine the eastbound larboard of Volos, which connects the islands of the Sporades to the cardinal mainland, and connected the Kavala-Prinos way successful the bluish Aegean.

The Rio-Antirrio ferry crossing betwixt the Peloponnese and the western mainland is besides closed, according to the Athens-Macedonian quality agency.