“… and at the same time about 900 ships were repairing in Perama” says Mr. Stavros Kasidiaris, President of Association of Electricians Repairers and Shipbuilders and ECOMASYN, speaking about the ship repair activity in Greece when the shipyards were functioning.

According to the study made by the National Technical University of Athens, in the productive years of Skaramagkas shipyard 71 vessels were built and 22.000 workmen were employed. Nowadays, unemployment exceeds 90\% in the industry, while he stresses that the causes that led to this impairment of the ship repairing should be removed.

The speech of Mr. Kasidiaris was given in the context of the conference on “Industry, Ship Repairing and Development”, which was organized with collaboration of EVEP and the Union of Piraeus- Attica Industrialists (SVAP), a business initiative taken by A- Energy Investments in discussing critical issues facing the industries of Piraeus- Attica, the maritime industry and the ship repair sector, on Wednesday 28 September 2016 at the Handicraft Chamber of Piraeus (VEP).

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