9th Naftemporiki Shipping Conference-Koronakis: Positive steps in shipbuilding and repair

Konstantinos Koronakis, President of the Manufacturing Department astatine the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and CEO of KORONAKIS SA, addressed the 9th Shipping Conference organized by “Naftemporiki”.

Asked whether the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry has entered the “new century” and whether it is making efforts to pull investments, Koronakis replied: “The Piraeus  Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with the different two bodies, are among the bodies that created this maritime cluster, Maritime Hellas.”

“About 383 companies person managed to present results implicit the years, without immoderate superior vessel repair successful our country. This, for each of us, was doubly difficult. Because we not lone had to physique something successful Greece but we besides had to export it to countries that person vessel repair, which did not want it”, helium added.

Support for Greece

“We thought that – and not lone us, I americium talking astir the Hellenic Shipbuilding and Repair Association, so I americium talking astir each these companies that thought precisely similar that – we started successful Greece and we support Greece” and added “now I spot very positively the steps that were taken, with the assistance of the Hellenic Shipbuilding and Repair Association. Thank God that two ample shipbuilding and repair bases person travel to life”, said Koronakis.

“This will marque our lives easier and much innovative”, helium underlined.

“We ever had the shipowners connected our side, of course, who honored us with their trust. But present we besides person the shipbuilding and repair industry, which makes this synergy much, overmuch easier”, stressed Koronakis.