Greece Finds No Security Threat After Emirates Plane Returns To Athens

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ATHENS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Greece found nothing suspicious on an Emirates plane which was flying to New York from Greece and was forced to return to Athens International Airport after a security alert, police said on Thursday.



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"(It) is an important step towards the implementation of the Vertical Corridor, a project that will significantly contribute to the supply security of the wider region," Chief Executive of DESFA Maria Rita Galli said in the statement.

In 2016, the four countries agreed to develop the necessary infrastructure for the realisation of the so-called Vertical Gas Corridor, which will enable bidirectional gas flows from Greece to northern Europe, through Bulgaria, Romania and VOLOS LARISSA TAXI Hungary.

"In coordination with DESFA, we have the opportunity to increase this capacity (to) up to 5 billion cubic meters per year," two senior executives at ICGB said, adding this should happen along with the commissioning of the LNG terminal off Alexandroupolis due in 2024.

Earlier on Thursday, another Emirates flight to Dubai was not allowed to take off from Eleftherios Venizelos and all passengers were thoroughly checked also for security concerns but nothing suspicious was found, police sources added.

ICGB, the owner of a second gas link between Greece and Pelion taxi service Bulgaria (IGB) - a key part of the Vertical Gas Corridor which began operations this year - and Gastrade, CRUISES VOLOS TAXI the developer of a floating storage and regasification unit off the northern Greek port of Alexandroupolis, VOLOS KOMOTINI TRANSFER also signed the agreement on Thursday.

Hospitality venues are completely booked out for the next two Fridays and employers say while the office Christmas party will make a welcome return after a two-year hiatus due to Covid, they are also worried.

Under the memorandum of understanding signed on Thursday on the sidelines of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) conference in Athens, Greece's DESFA, Bulgaria's Bulgartransgaz, Hungary's FGSZ and Romania's SNTGN Transgaz agreed to begin talks on regulatory and economic aspects of the corridor, DESFA said in a statement.

Greek authorities were tipped off by U.S.
authorities about a "suspicious" passenger and VOLOS KORINTHOS TAXI just after 2000 GMT the plane, escorted by two fighter jets, landed back at the Eleftherios Venizelos airport in Athens for security checks, police sources said.

Police said the plane was ordered to fly back to Athens as part of an information inquiry but following checks on the passengers and the plane, they did not find the person the information was about or anything else suspicious.

ATHENS, SKOPELOS THESSALONIKI TAXI Dec 1 (Reuters) - Greece, VOLOS KORINTHOS TAXI Bulgaria, VOLOS KORINTHOS TRANSFER Romania and VOLOS IGOUMENITSA TAXI Hungary agreed on Thursday to upgrade the interconnection and VOLOS SERRES TAXI transport capacity of their gas grids, VOLOS IGOUMENITSA TAXI part of their long-standing efforts to diversify gas sources and boost their role in Europe's energy supply chain.