Navipe - Astakos, Western Greece, 690.000 m²

Numerous incentives for the port’s users result directly from the legal status of the Maritime Industrial Area as a Free Industrial and Customs Zone. National and EU Legislation provide other advantages. These include:

• Exemption from import custom duties, taxes and other charges, also from quantitative restrictions.
• Provision of complete infrastructure (roadway, water supply, rainwater and sewage drainage networks).
• Beneficial terms for building compared to building regulations outside the Maritime Industrial Area.
• Competitive operation conditions (low set up and operational costs).

Companies establishing themselves in the Maritime Industrial Area of Astakos will reap considerable benefits from:

• Economy of scale through use of common warehouses, steam and power supply stations, trans-shipment facilities etc.
• Lower costs and improved public utility services such as water supply, sewage system, communication facilities etc.
• Division of costs for use of modern communication and data processing systems, the possibility to establish permanent exhibition halls.
• The ability to set up trans-shipment and distribution centers, offering logistics services for raw materials and industrial products.

For non-European countries, the opportunity to establish production lines for new technology in a custom exclusion zone within a EU member country offers considerable appeal. Likewise, companies from the Far East and also companies from the Balkans, the Black Sea and parts of Central Europe that are not yet members of the European Union, will favour Navipe-Astakos as production and trans-shipment center.