TAGS: Taxation, Finance The tax administration is starting to process data received from fuel flow monitoring systems installed at gas stations, and to conduct unscheduled inspections when they become aware that businesses’ systems have remained inoperative for many hours, the head of the Independent Authority of Public Revenue, Giorgos Pitsilis, said on Friday. Up until […]
TAGS: Environment, Justice, Focus It seems there is a conspiracy of silence surrounding the Agia Zoni II shipwreck off Salamina, with the exact causes that led to the tanker sinking and spewing fuel oil into the Saronic Gulf yet to be pinpointed. There is a swirl of rumors and speculation that is aimed at diverting […]
Seafarer handed suspended sentence (file image/pixabay) The captain of Lassea, the ship embroiled in the Agia Zoni ll oil spill off the Greek coastline, has been handed a two-year suspended sentence by a Piraeus court. The sentence was given on September 28, according to local news provider the Greek Observer. The tanker Agia Zoni ll […]
PEMEN is now calling for the buyer of Agia Zoni II’s cargoes to be revealed. Image Credit: Hellenic Coast Guard In the latest twists following the sinking of bunkering vessel Agia Zoni II earlier this month off the Port of Piraeus, Greece, there are now suggestions that the vessel’s sinking may have been the result of sabotage, […]
As the government scrambles to play down the repercussions of a sunken oil tanker that has polluted much of the Athenian coastline, the trial of crew members of a cargo vessel dispatched to help pump the fuel out of the wreck appeared to descend into farce. The Lassea tanker had been helping pump the residual […]
By MarEx 2017-09-22 20:22:32 Greek media report that the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) did not receive a notification about the Agia Zoni II spill until three days after the vessel went down. EMSA dispatched a spill response vessel to the scene within hours of learning of the problem, EU Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management […]
On September 20, captain and first engineer helping to clear oil spill have been arrested on the charges for smuggling fuel. The vessel ‘Agia Zoni II’ reportedly sunk in the Saronic Gulf and the oil present in its cargo started leaking into the surrounding waters. The crew members were assisting in clearing the oil spill […]
Greece’s Evalend Shipping is vehemently denying an allegation of fuel smuggling after Libyan authorities detained one of its chemicals tankers this week to investigate its crew. The 20,000-dwt Levante (built 2008) has been held since 27 August when the Libyan coastguard intercepted the vessel as it was ballasting about 25 miles off the country’s coast, […]
TAGS: Energy, Business The Panhellenic Federation of Fuel Station Owners and Oil Traders (POPEK) has raised the alarm over continuing problems that distort the country’s fuel market, insisting that government decisions aimed at tackling smuggling have not been enforced. Estimates put the losses that the Greek state incurs because of fuel smuggling at 300 million […]