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Published:2019.11.06 News Sources:Qingdao Gute Ship Supplies Co., Ltd. Views: | |||
The Greek prime minister paid his first visit to China to cosco shipping group
On November 4, Greek prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis, who was invited to attend the second China international import expo, visited cosco shipping group. Xu lirong, chairman of cosco shipping group, together with crew representatives and staff representatives, welcomed prime minister mitsotakis to visit.
Xu thanked prime minister mitsotakis for his first visit to China since taking office, which was to the headquarters of cosco shipping group. He also thanked the new Greek government and relevant sectors for their rapid progress and approval of the Master Plan for the Piraeus port. Xu pointed out that with the joint efforts of cosco shipping and the Greek people, Piraeus port is now the largest port in the Mediterranean Sea and rated by the Baltic exchange as one of the world's top 10 hub ports. Xu Lirong said, the future in the Greek government and people from all walks of life, under the support of cosco shipping will be in strict accordance with the local laws and regulations, and environmental policy requirements, increase the investment and construction of the Piraeus, the Piraeus port in port, the leading European to promote the two countries in the broader field of practical investment cooperation to make positive contribution.
He thanked cosco shipping for its hospitality and explained the significance of his visit to the headquarters of cosco shipping group. He also thanked cosco shipping for helping the Piraeus port become the largest port in the Mediterranean in a relatively short time and directly creating more than 3,000 jobs for Greece. Mr. Mitsotakis said the Greek government had approved the master plan for Piraeus and was already in discussions on investment plans for the port's new container terminals, and he was confident about the prospects for infrastructure including cruise terminals and container terminals. He stressed that cosco shipping is right to invest in peikong and believes that the implementation of the master plan in the future will bring better development results to peikong. Mizotakis believes that the port's natural location determines its importance in the Mediterranean and even in Europe, and that it is an important investment for the two ancient civilizations to better integrate and develop.
The two sides agreed that the Piraeus port project is a bridge of friendship between China and Greece with ancient civilizations. Cosco shipping will work with Greece to further strengthen the friendly exchanges between the Chinese and Greek people, take the implementation of the overall plan as an opportunity, and promote the integration of the two civilizations and future cooperation.
Greek shipping and islands policy minister prachanda keogh tower Keith, deputy foreign minister, Mr Yannis, ambassador to Greece luo kanas, Chinese ambassador to Greece zhang qiyue, China ocean shipping group, xiao-wen huang hai-min wang, deputy general manager zhang for related functional departments and cosco shipping group headquarters, subordinates, related professional company director attended the meeting. In 2010, cosco shipping took over the operation of piagang no. 2 and no. 3 container terminals through a franchise. In 2016, cosco shipping completed the acquisition of 67 per cent of the Piraeus port authority (PPA) and became the operator of the whole Piraeus port. After 10 years of hard work, compared with the port in the world's container port ranking jumped from 93rd when I took over the position to 32nd. The port's container throughput increased sevenfold from 880,000 teus in 2010 to an estimated 5.8 million teus this year. In 2019, Puerto Rico surpassed valencia to become the largest port in the Mediterranean. At the same time, to the port for the hub of the "central sea fast line" from the original single port to the Czech republic services products and expand to railway diversified service products, covering Greece, north of Macedonia, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech republic, radiation nine countries, 1500 branches, 71 million people. Up to now, cosco shipping project has directly created more than 3,000 local jobs and indirectly created more than 10,000 jobs in Greece. It contributes 300 million euros a year to the local direct economy. |
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