Port of Thessaloniki
Passenger terminal from afar
Location
Country:	Greece
Location:	Thessaloniki
Details
Owned by:	Thessaloniki Port Authority
Type of harbor:	Natural/Artificial
Size:	155 ha (1.55 sq km)
Employees:	2,000[1] (2007)
General manager:	Lazaros Kanavouras
Statistics
Vessel arrivals:	2,096 vessels (2008)[2]
Annual cargo tonnage:	14,373,245 tonnes (2007)[3]
Annual container volume:	222,852 TEU's (2007)[4]
Passenger traffic:	162,731 people[5] (2007)
Annual revenue:	US$ 93 million (2007)[6]
Net income:	US$ 32 million (2007)[7]
Website:	www.thpa.gr

The Port of Thessaloniki is one of the largest Greek seaports and one of the largest ports in the Aegean Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 16 million tonnes (7 million tonnes dry bulk and 9 million tonnes liquid bulk).

The Port of Thessaloniki is also the second largest Greek container port after the Port of Piraeus.

Contents 1 Statistics 2 Terminals 2.1 Container terminal 2.2 Cargo terminal 2.3 Oil and gas terminal 2.4 Passenger terminal 3 References

[edit] Statistics

In 2007 the Port of Thessaloniki handled 14,373,245 tonnes of cargo and 222,824 TEU's making it one of the busiest cargo ports in Greece and the second largest container port in the country .

General statistics between 2007 and 2008 ^[8]

Years	2007	2008
Cement*	871,936	810,311
Liquid bulk*	7,618,622	7,347,922
Dry bulk*	7,740,920	6,215,012
Containers (TEU's)	408,212	222,824
Total*'	16,231,478	14,373,245

* figures in tonnes

[edit] Terminals

[edit] Container terminal

The terminal has a storage area of 350,000 m² and a storage capacity of 4,696 TEU's in ground slots. ^[9]

The container terminal is currently being expanded by 36 hectares after an investment of around US$600 million from the Hong Kong based company Hutchison Port Holdings.^[10] The Hong Kong based company won the tender after surpassing the first offer made by COSCO Pacific, which offered around US$ 500 million for the development of the container terminal.

In 2009 Hutchinson didn't find the money to pay for the concession of the port and so they lost it.

[edit] Cargo terminal

The cargo terminal has a storage area of 1,000,000 m² specializes in the handling of wide cargoes: metal products, ore, chemical products (chloroform, asphalt, chemicals, mineral oils), general cargoes, timber, bulk cargoes and food products.^[11]

The terminal also serves as a major transshipment hub in the Aegean — Black Sea area being used by other Balkan countries like Serbia, Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro.

[edit] Oil and gas terminal

The oil and gas terminal has a total storage capacity of 500,000 m^3[12] and an annual traffic capacity of 9,000,000 tonnes per year.

[edit] Passenger terminal

The Port of Thessaloniki has one of the largest passenger terminals in the Aegean Sea basin which handled around 162,731 passengers in 2007.^[13]

[edit] References