{"id":26670,"date":"2021-04-05T17:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/greece-launches-sale-of-crete-port-stake\/26670\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T17:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:34:57","slug":"greece-launches-sale-of-crete-port-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/greece-launches-sale-of-crete-port-stake\/26670\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece Launches Sale of Crete Port Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Greece on Monday launched a tender for the sale of a majority stake in a port on the island of Crete, a popular tourist destination in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The conservative government has been keen to attract investment and upgrade its port facilities across the country after years of underspending and a decade-long financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Investors can submit expressions of interest for a 67% stake in the port of Heraklion, the busiest on Crete, by July 30, the country&#8217;s privatization agency, which is managing the sale, said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The port serves cruise ships, ferries and freight vessels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Greece is also selling majority stakes in the ports of Alexandroupolis and Igoumenitsa in northern and western Greece, as part of a privatization scheme aiming to raise 1.8 billion euros ($2.11 billion) this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 0.8511 euros)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou; Editing by Alison Williams)<\/p>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece on Monday launched a tender for the sale of a majority stake in a port on the island of Crete, a popular tourist destination in Europe. The conservative government has been keen to attract investment and upgrade its port facilities across the country after years of underspending and a decade-long financial crisis. Investors can &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[15219,342,1586,953,1398,1254],"class_list":["post-26670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-crete","tag-greece","tag-launches","tag-port","tag-sale","tag-stake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/26671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}