US Secretary of the Interior Burgum visits ONEX Elefsis Shipyards

The visit of the US Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, successful Greece is the archetypal visit of a curate of the caller Trump administration.

More specifically, Burgum visited the ONEX Shipyards successful Elefsis connected September 11.

According to ONEX, this lawsuit “highlights the strategic value of the Group for the revival of the Greek shipbuilding manufacture and underlines the adjacent practice betwixt Greece and the United States successful the shipyard sector. The visit confirms that the Group enjoys the trust and support of some governments, which admit its vision and potential.”

ONEX Group Chairman and CEO & President of the Hellenic Shipyards Association, Panos Xenokostas, welcomed the US Minister, who was accompanied by the Minister of Environment and Energy, Stavros Papastavrou.

Panos Xenokostas presented ONEX Group’s concern program and the advancement of projects successful caller years. At the halfway of the discussions was the financing from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), which is simply a strong vote of assurance successful the Group and its strategy for the wide upgrade of Elefsis Shipyards.

“ONEX Elefsis Shipyards is simply a almighty illustration of what we tin execute when we work with our allies to recognize this administration’s vision for American supremacy successful the vigor sector,” said Burgum.

He added that “this concern not lone strengthens the economies of the United States and Greece, but besides shields our vigor infrastructure, while depriving it of captious revenues from adversaries who question to undermine state and stability worldwide. It was fantabulous to visit this captious vigor hub up close, which contributes decisively to the diversification of LNG sources for the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe.”

Having already proven its capabilities successful Syros, ONEX continues its dynamic concern successful Elefsis, with infrastructure projects, technological modernization and the improvement of a strong accumulation basal of planetary standards.

The improvement program includes:

Construction of ample commercialized ships and enlargement of the shipyard’s accumulation capacity.

Construction of coastal ships and tugboats to strengthen Greek coastal shipping and larboard infrastructure.

Strengthening defence enactment with high-tech projects and adjacent practice with planetary partners.

Development of investments successful the vigor sector, with an accent connected vigor transition done innovative technological solutions for shipping and the strengthening of competitory economies successful the epoch of artificial intelligence.

Creation of an Integrated Logistics and Innovation Center, arsenic a trade, shipping and technology hub for Eastern Europe.

Xenokostas stressed that ONEX has made a semipermanent committedness to creating a halfway of shipbuilding and technological excellence successful Greece. He pointed retired that the advancement of the projects successful Elefsis creates thousands of jobs, strengthens the home defence manufacture and puts the state backmost connected the planetary shipbuilding map.