One-day seminar focuses on prospects, significance of 4 major ports linked with Egnatia motorway

A one-day seminar in Thessaloniki on Tuesday focused on the growth prospects and geopolitical significance of four ports linked with the Egnatia motorway, a state-of-the-art closed tollway that runs the breadth of northern Greece, from the border with European Turkey to the extreme northwest corner of the country.

Speaking at the event, the shipping ministry’s relevant general secretary for ports and ports policy, Evagelos Kyriazopoulos, said the four Egnatia-connected ports – Alexandroupolis, Kavala, Thessaloniki and Igoumenitsa, from east to west – are now set to serve as a gateway to southeast Europe and beyond for imported and exported goods, and now more so, for energy.

Kyriazopoulos reminded that a handful of north-south European roadways on the continent’s central and eastern halfs, such as IV, IX and X, now link up with the Egnatia motorway, which was recently privatized in an international tender.