Tender to expand and manage Kavala port in 2009

(ANSA) - ATHENS - In 2009 a call for bids will be published for the building of a new logistics area in the Greek port of Kavala, eventually there will be an additional tender for the management of the entire port system. The announcement was made by the managing director of the Macedonian port, Nikos Panaghiotopoulos. The calls for bids will be made once ongoing renovation and extension work on the port structure is complete. According to the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade, Dubai Ports World, which participated in the tender for the ports of Piraeus and Salonica, as well as several Chinese firms, have expressed serious interest in the initiative and paid official visits to the Greek Ministry of Mercantile Marine and the Kavala Port Authority.
October 6