{"id":126122,"date":"2025-11-09T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T11:09:23","slug":"us-to-make-strategic-shipping-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126122\/","title":{"rendered":"US to make strategic shipping investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/kikilias_-1.jpg\" alt=\"US to make strategic shipping investments\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/kikilias_-1-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[InTime News]<\/p>\n<p>Shipping Minister Vassilis Kikilias told the intergovernmental Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) summit in Athens on Thursday that strategic American investments in Greek ports and shipyards can be expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime minister has ordered that discussions with our American counterparts begin on how to strengthen shipyards and ports, here and in the United States, so that they can be connected to each other,\u201d Kikilias said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming weeks and months, we will move forward with an agreement regarding American strategic investments in Greece, in the area of infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever dominates the sea, dominates trade and energy,\u201d Kikilias noted, recalling that over 80% of global trade is transported by sea.<\/p>\n<p>He said Greece has 20% of the world\u2019s merchant fleet, making it a crucial factor in the energy supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[InTime News] Shipping Minister Vassilis Kikilias told the intergovernmental Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) summit in Athens on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69,18533],"class_list":{"0":"post-126122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-shipping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}