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Crash between ministers in Greece on the privatization of the port of the Pireo
For the ministry of Finances the procedure will continue, while Marina Mercantile confirmation the stop
February 10, 2015
the concord does not reign sovereign in the new guided Greek government from Alexis Tsipras. The minister of Finances, Yanis Varoufakis, has assured that the procedure of privatization of the port of the Pireo will continue, refuting the precedence so declarations of exponents of the executive of Athens that had guaranteed that the iter it would be stopped.
Today in a note the ministry that it supervises to the political economic-financial institution has confirmed that the position of the ministry is positive regarding the privatization of the Pireaus Port Authority (PPA), that previews the cession of 67% of vital its like established from the precedence government, and of the contract in being with shipowning group Chinese COSCO, than in the port of the Pireo manages a container terminal through the Piraeus branch Container Terminal (PCT).
Of opposite opinion the vice minister of Marina Mercantile, Theodoris Dritsas, than yesterday to the Parliament, after sources of the ministry of Finances had assured the prosecuzione of the privatization procedure, has guaranteed the will of the government to block is the privatization of the Harbour Authority of the Pireo that of the Harbour Authority of Salonicco.
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