{"id":654007,"date":"2026-05-20T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654007\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:01:12","slug":"breaking-news-deme-van-oord-jv-kicks-off-thessaloniki-dredging-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/654007\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: DEME, Van Oord JV kicks off Thessaloniki dredging program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ThPA S.A. \u2013 Port of Thessaloniki has mobilized a consortium of Van Oord and DEME Group for the dredging operations in the area \u2013 part of the Pier 6 expansion project.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/breydel-768x593.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Dimitrios Moutsakis, Project Director-Pier 6 at ThPA <\/p>\n<p>According to the Port, the expansion of Pier 6 is a pivotal investment not only for the Port of Thessaloniki but also for the port ecosystem of Greece as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project leads to a drastic strengthening of the infrastructure of ThPA S.A. and consists of the expansion of Pier 6, with an additional length of 513 meters, a width of 306.5 meters, and the significant dredging of the navigation channel and the vessels\u2019 maneuvering area, for the safe mooring of even the ULCV type vessels (Ultra Large Container Vessels),\u201d the Port said.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of the program, the Port of Thessaloniki will:<\/p>\n<p>serve simultaneously a higher number of container vessels,<br \/>\nbe able to accommodate Ultra Large Container Vessels of up to 24,000 TEU, a unique feature for Northern Greece,<br \/>\nincrease the total capacity of the Container Terminal from 650,000 TEU today to 1,500,000 TEU, strengthening its competitiveness towards the destinations of Southeast Europe,<br \/>\nenhance its position within the port industry as well as the country\u2019s connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The financing of the project will be covered from the own existing capital of ThPA S.A. as well as from banking loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ThPA S.A. \u2013 Port of Thessaloniki has mobilized a consortium of Van Oord and DEME Group for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,235081,4135,451,3,142984,452,453,282110],"class_list":["post-654007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-deme","tag-greece","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-thessaloniki","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-van-oord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}