Piraeus Container Port
Piraeus Container Terminal
Piraeus Container Port
The Container Port of Piraeus is one of the top ten container ports in Europe. The Container Terminal is principally engaged in the development, operation and commercial utilization of the existing Pier II; and included in the future plans is the construction of Pier III, so as to achieve a substantial growth in the container throughput and handling capacity.
As of October, 2009, China's COSCO assumed ownership of the Piraeus Container Terminal SA. Since then, in 2012 it handled 8.633.907 tonnes of cargo and, 3.163.755 TEU's (Twenty-foot equivalent unit) in 2013, making it the busiest cargo port in Greece and the largest container port in the country and the East Mediterranean Sea Basin.
CEΟ and Captain, Fu Cheng Qiu, has stated that the, "Piraeus Container Terminal is being converted into the first large scale state-of-the-art modern container terminal in Greece. It will be a challenging but achievable task to win the confidence of the customers to bring the container throughput to the peak volumes of 3.7m TEU's."
