{"id":2487,"date":"2026-04-24T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2026-04-24T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:07:00","slug":"vassilis-kikilias-on-greek-owned-ships-in-the-persian-gulf-we-communicate-with-them-three-times-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Vassilis Kikilias on Greek-owned ships in the Persian Gulf: We communicate with them three times a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About the consequences of war in a geostrategic region like the <b>Middle East<\/b>, <b>Minister of Shipping<\/b> <strong>Vassilis Kikilias<\/strong> spoke to CNN Greece.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the economic consequences are unpredictable, as <b>20% of the world&#8217;s oil<\/b> comes out of the Seaway of Hormuz, <b>25% of the world&#8217;s natural gas<\/b> is traded, as well as fertilizers and other products.<\/p>\n<p>According to <b>Vassilis Kikilias<\/b>, there are <b>11 Greek-flagged ships<\/b> within the <b>Gulf of Persia<\/b> and <b>several times as many Greek-flagged ships outside the Straits of Oman<\/b>, and even more Greek-owned ships for which Greece has no jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nevertheless, when and if they have Greek seafarers and because they belong to Greek shipowners, of course there is concern. <b>From the operations room of the Ministry of Ministry of Shipping and Insular Policy, they are contacted three times a day with them, every day<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. <b>Kikilias<\/b> also said that <b>there is care and concern for Greek seafarers<\/b> <b>who want to go back<\/b> as has already been done with ten seafarers who wished to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vassilis Kikilias, Minister of Shipping, spoke to CNN Greece about the consequences of war in a geostrategic region such as the Middle East.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}