The local trade association sent a letter to shipping minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis asking him to revoke NEL's licence to operate to the island.

The traders mostly complain about severe delays to northern Greece’s major ports, Thessaloniki and Kavala, which has affected their summer business.

It comes at a time when the Greek government is considering suspending routes among the remote islands of the northern Aegean, including Limnos.

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