Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-01-11

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] PM Tsipras chairs meeting on social security reforms and the Greek programme

[02] Greece to open offers for Piraeus Port on Tuesday

[03] Tourist arrivals up 8.6 pct in Jan-Sept

[01] PM Tsipras chairs meeting on social security reforms and the Greek programme

The meeting is held at the prime minister's office in parliament with the participation of members of the government and associates of the prime ministers.

[02] Greece to open offers for Piraeus Port on Tuesday

Despite the fact that Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund has not published the number of binding offers submitted with Morgan Stanley in London, Merchant Shipping ministry sources told ANA-MPA that the only bid submitted to the Fund was by Chinese COSCO, while the other candidate, Danish Maersk, was seemed to be interest more in the Thessaloniki Port, with binding offers expected to be submitted in three months.

Under the terms of the tender, any possible buyer of Piraeus Port was committed to make investments worth 340 million euros in the port, mainly to boost sea cruise services, new tanks for ship repair and new infrastructure in the ship-building zone.

[03] Tourist arrivals up 8.6 pct in Jan-Sept

The statistics service, in a report based on a survey conducted by the Bank of Greece, said that arrivals from Europe -which accounted for the biggest part of arrivals (88.4 pct)- grew 7.9 pct, while arrivals from the EU jumped 17.1 pct.

Arrivals in the Athens airport accounted from 16.1 pct of all arrivals in the country, followed by the Heraclion airport (10.8 pct) and Rhodes (8.2 pct).

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