For sale: the port of Piraeus – Telegraaf.nl

ATHENS –

In the search for capital Greece has now still put the largest port in the country in the window. That writes the German weekly Der Spiegel Saturday. The sale of a majority stake of 67 percent in the port of Piraeus should take place within a few weeks

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With the arrival of the new Greek government led by the leftist party SYRIZA, would put an end to the policy of cuts and privatization. Now the new authorities seem nevertheless succumbed due to the acute financial distress. The previous government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was planning to do the port of hand.

According to reports from China investors would want to incorporate the seaport of Piraeus. For example, the Chinese state-owned COSCO since 2009 an interest in the container port, which also already operates.

The Greek Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis brings currently visiting the People’s Republic. He invited include Cosco but other investors bid on the port. It is not yet clear how much the sale of the port must yield to the Greek government.

Greece is in a hurry with the quest for money. Without emergency assistance or other income to the treasury of the ailing Greeks would next month be empty

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