Quality education, gender equality, tapping into industry and innovation, and protecting the marine environment are the four key areas of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that Greece is aiming to achieve in the immediate future, said Greek Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis speaking at the “Third Economist Sustainability Summit for South East Europe and the Mediterranean” held in Athens.

Shipping Minister Ioannis Plakiotakis on Wednesday presented the new framework for the public procurement and tendering of ferry services for 'limited-traffic' routes to remote Greek islands.

Greece need to assume a more active role in formulating shipping policy on an international level, and in promoting its role in peaceful progress in SE Europe, Shipping and Island Policy Minister Giannis Plakiotakis said in Parliament on Sunday.