A carpenter who gave his name as Costas laments the decline of Perama. "Trade unions created problems," he said. "They started strikes and wanted more money and in the end companies moved elsewhere." ...
PERAMA, Greece, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- For several decades the heart of Greece's ship repair industry was beating at Perama, a western suburb of Piraeus port, until the Greek debt crisis broke out in ...
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Coco Palms Resort redevelopment on Kauai secures financingThe resort, which has been closed since 1992 after sustaining damage from Hurricane Iniki, will reopen as a Kimpton property. More tech ...
Athens, Greece – The Chop-Chop cafe on Athens’ western outskirts no longer lives up to its name. Time is the only luxury here, where men with little work, no money and a mountain of debt live out the ...
PERAMA, Greece—Most weekdays, Thanassis Tziombras, a 50-year-old worker at the shipbuilding zone here at the main Greek port of Piraeus, is up before dawn and out looking for work by 6 a.m. Some 40 ...