Piraeus

Since it lies well apart from the main town, a tiny Piraeus to a microscopic Athens , they seem almost to turn their backs on it.

It will also have to deal with the public's likely worries about Piraeus's proposal.

China also has port projects in Piraeus, Greece, and Naples in Italy that have raised eyebrows.

"Piraeus is not a colony, " Pamboukis says confidently.

Also on Wednesday, a maybe navy minesweeper scold scoured carryer' s( Piraeus) harbour for potentially explosives.

Under the terms of the contract, COSCO will manage Pier II and Pier III of Piraeus Container Terminals for 35 years.

Even as rioters crowd central Athens and taxi workers strike, Metro passengers race at 48 mph from the Port of Piraeus to the far suburbs.

Simultaneously, brilliant and daring sabotage operations were carried out by Greek agents against Axis shipping in the Piraeus.

COSCO, China's leading shipping giant, successfully won a container operation project for Piraeus port in 2008.

Piraeus is Greece's largest port, just six miles from Athens.

But its most important infrastructure deal in Europe has been its investment in the Greek port of Piraeus.

The Greeks have already received a big investment in the Piraeus port in Athens.

Like other Greek banks, Piraeus has been getting capital injections from the government since 2008.

But that is exactly what the dockworker unions in Piraeus had feared.

We will work with Greece to manage well the Piraeus container terminal and increase its capacity to 3. 7 million TEUs by 2015.

Piraeus Bank SA tumbled 3. 8 percent to 3. 78 euros, the lowest price in three weeks.

Piraeus Bank sank 6. 7 percent to 3. 65 euros.