Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-biggest port, will in a few years be able to accommodate boxships nearly three times as large as those it handles now, its prospective buyers — which include the CMA CGM Group — said this week.
Vessels of 4,500 teu can currently call at the northern port. Once the buyers’ investment plan is completed over the next four years, ships of up to 12,000 teu will be able to load and unload there, says Sotiris Theofanis, co-ordinator of the consortium that submitted the highest bid to buy a controlling stake in state-run Thessaloniki Port Authority (OLTH).
