Washington visit for maritime affairs minister

[InTime News]

After London, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy Vassilis Kikilias will visit Washington this week for contacts with US authorities officials, members of Congress and representatives of the shipping and vigor industry.

The visit will statesman astatine the Department of Energy, where Kikilias will sermon vigor strategy and maritime argumentation issues. The trip besides includes important meetings connected Capitol Hill.

The curate will conscionable with Republican senators Jerry Moran and Todd Young, who are playing a starring relation successful legislative initiatives to make the home shipbuilding industry, which is simply a cardinal precedence of the Trump medication successful airy of contention with China.

The pursuing day, helium will conscionable with Greek Congressman Gus Bilirakis, known for his strong enactment connected issues concerning Greece. Subsequently, a visit to the White House Office of Management and Budget has been scheduled.

The docket besides includes meetings with the improvement concern instauration DFC and its main concern officer, arsenic well arsenic with Congressman Jimmy Patronis.

Kikilias’ beingness successful the American superior takes spot astatine a clip when practice betwixt Greece and the US successful the maritime and shipbuilding assemblage is acquiring peculiar geopolitical importance, with Washington recognizing Greece’s decisive relation successful maritime transport, vigor information and determination stability.