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The Port of Patras moves 70% of its freight traffic to and from Italian ports. It is Greece's primary maritime link to Central Europe, a core node on the EU's TEN-T corridor, and the exit point for a substantial share of Greek agricultural...
Volos funnels 3.5 million ferry passengers a year toward the Sporades islands, anchors 12 yacht charter operations in the Pagasetic Gulf, and serves as the primary service hub for Mount Pelion. It received 47 cruise ship calls in 2023 and...
The Port of Volos handled approximately 4.8 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, making it Greece's third-largest cargo port by tonnage. By the end of 2024, the first nine months alone tracked toward surpassing that figure. The European...
Volos entered 2026 with more processing capacity under construction than at any point in the past two decades. Myloi Thessalias is commissioning specialty flour lines for Middle East markets. Kyknos is upgrading its Nikaia facilities. The...
Thessaloniki's ICT and BPO cluster absorbed 42,000 square metres of new office space in the first three quarters of 2024. That figure represented 38% of total office demand across the city. At the same time, the average time to fill a...
Thessaloniki processed and exported €2.14 billion in agri-food products through its port in the twelve months to March 2025. That figure rose 7.3% year on year, driven by olive oil price premiums and cereals demand from Egypt and Turkey....
Athens added 31.8 million airport passengers in 2024, a 12.8% year-on-year increase. Five-star hotel occupancy across the metropolitan area averaged 78.4%, with average daily rates climbing 8.2% to €165. The Grand Hyatt, the One&Only...
Athens crossed an inflection point sometime in 2024 that most European hiring leaders have not yet registered. The city's tech ecosystem now tracks 847 digital enterprises generating more than €1 million in annual revenue. Its scale-ups...
Greece's four systemic banks posted aggregate pre-tax profits of €4.2 billion in 2023. Non-performing loans dropped from 45% in 2016 to 6.8% by early 2024. The Athens Exchange listed new offerings as foreign portfolio investment followed...
Cretan agri-food exports, dominated by Heraklion Prefecture, grew 23% in value between 2020 and 2024. Direct employment in processing and packaging plants across the same period barely moved, holding flat at approximately 18,200. That...
Heraklion's hotel groups committed €147 million in hospitality capital expenditure during 2024 alone, with combined announcements from Aldemar Resorts and Grecotel pushing the pipeline well past €200 million for the current cycle. New...
Heraklion's port processed 2.1 million TEU equivalent units in 2024, handled 680,000 cruise passengers, and served as the logistics gateway for 60% of Crete's containerised imports. The numbers describe a port operating at industrial...
Ioannina is building for growth it cannot staff. The airport terminal expansion completed in 2024 doubled passenger capacity to 300,000. Ryanair and easyJet are negotiating new seasonal routes from Basel and Munich for Summer 2026, adding...
Epirus dairy exports grew 14% year on year in 2024. That figure sounds like a success story. It is, until you examine who is left to sustain it. The University of Ioannina's Agriculture Department, the region's primary pipeline for food...
Epirus has a headline unemployment rate of 15.8%. It also has metal fabrication workshops that cannot fill a CNC operator vacancy in under six months. These two facts coexist without contradiction, and together they define the central...
Larissa's industrial zone processed €42 million in private investment during 2024. Three facility expansions totalling 15,000 square metres of new industrial space received planning approval in the same year. Renewable energy component...
Larissa sits at the geographic centre of Greece's north-south freight corridor. The E75 motorway runs through it. The national rail network converges on it. The Thessaly plain surrounding it produces more agricultural output than any...
Thessaly's unemployment rate stood at 14.2% in the first quarter of 2025. In the same quarter, technical roles inside Larissa's agro-processing zone took an average of 94 days to fill. Those two figures describe the same labour market....
The Port of Patras moves 70% of its freight traffic to and from Italian ports. It is Greece's primary maritime link to Central Europe, a core node on the EU's TEN-T corridor, and the exit point for a substantial share of Greek agricultural...
Patras now hosts more than 100 active ICT and deep-tech startups. Technical headcount across the cluster grew 12 to 15 per cent in 2024, outpacing Greek national ICT growth by a third. The University of Patras continues to produce roughly...
Western Greece has never had more money earmarked for its agri-food sector. The Recovery and Resilience Facility alone allocates €112 million to the region for automated sorting lines, photovoltaic-powered mills, and digitised supply chain...
Thessaloniki's ICT and BPO cluster absorbed 42,000 square metres of new office space in the first three quarters of 2024. That figure represented 38% of total office demand across the city. At the same time, the average time to fill a...
Thessaloniki processed and exported €2.14 billion in agri-food products through its port in the twelve months to March 2025. That figure rose 7.3% year on year, driven by olive oil price premiums and cereals demand from Egypt and Turkey....
Thessaloniki's port processed approximately 470,000 TEU in 2023. By end of 2026, throughput is projected to reach 520,000 TEU, a compound annual growth rate of 5.1%. The capital has followed: €200 million committed to Pier 6...
Volos funnels 3.5 million ferry passengers a year toward the Sporades islands, anchors 12 yacht charter operations in the Pagasetic Gulf, and serves as the primary service hub for Mount Pelion. It received 47 cruise ship calls in 2023 and...
The Port of Volos handled approximately 4.8 million tonnes of cargo in 2023, making it Greece's third-largest cargo port by tonnage. By the end of 2024, the first nine months alone tracked toward surpassing that figure. The European...
Volos entered 2026 with more processing capacity under construction than at any point in the past two decades. Myloi Thessalias is commissioning specialty flour lines for Middle East markets. Kyknos is upgrading its Nikaia facilities. The...
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