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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-11-01
CONTENTS
[01] Greek PMI down in October
[02] Rum Festival in Athens on 6 and 7 November
[03] Sailing boat with migrants missing; 45 migrants rescued
[01] Greek PMI down in October
Greek manufacturing sector fell deeper into recession in October as
both production and new orders fell in the month, Markit said on Tuesday.
The country's seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index PMI fell to
48.6 points in October from 49.2 in September, to a new five-month low,
Markit said in a monthly report. The October figure underlined a slightly
faster shrinking of the manufacturing sector, with production levels
by Greek manufacturers falling for the second successive month. Weak
demand was one of the reasons for the decline in production. New
orders volume fell further in October, at a faster rate compared with
September, while new incoming orders -domestic and abroad- remained
low. New export orders fell at the fastest rate since June, although
Greek manufacturers continued raising their workforce for the fifth
successive month. Pending works deteriorated significantly in October,
while average cost burden rose significantly, remaining on an upward
trend for the seventh successive month affected by higher steel and
dairy product prices. Meanwhile, Greek manufacturers continued lowering
the outflow prices in October, for the fourth successive month. Delivery
times slowed in the month
[02] Rum Festival in Athens on 6 and 7 November
Athens will be the capital of rum on November 6-7. A large festival,
the first rum festival for the rum, will be held at the Zappeion
Mansion organised by the bar Baba au Rum (World's 50 Best Bars 2013
and 2016) and the company Conf Expo Ltd. Founder of the festival is
Thanos Pournarous, bartender and owner of Baba au Rum and founder of
the magazine Fine Drinking.
A large number of foreign bartenders and rum industries will participate
in the festival.
"Bars in Athens have made significant progress," said Pournarous and
underlined: "Only a few cities worldwide can claim that they have a
higher position than Athens and these are London, New York and probably
Sidney. There are many Greek bars and bartenders that are internationally
acclaimed. For us is very important to prove that Athens is a pioneer
and we want to make Athens Rum Festival one of the best worldwide. It is
very important that people from the specific industry as well as people
that like fine drinking visit Athens."
[03] Sailing boat with migrants missing; 45 migrants rescued
A rescue operation is in progess in the sea region of Neapolis (southern
Peloponnese) to locate a sailing boat with an unknown number of migrants
on board.
The sailing boat called 112 and asked for help late Monday. The rescue
operation was launched with delay (early Tuesday) due to the adverse
weather conditions prevailing in the area that did not allow coast guard
vessels to sail.
Meanwhile,45 migrants and refugees that were located late Monday in the
area of Xiropotamos on Antikythera will be transferred to the port of
Neapolis with the ferry Porfyroussa. The foreign nationals arrived on
Antikythera with an unidentified vessel.
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