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ELECTRIC A YEAR OF
FERRIES DISTINCTION
Since 2019, the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Athens and In 2021, the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards jury
Isalos.net have co-organised a conference that would offer a selected Isalos.net as the winner of the “Award for Achieve-
common ground for mutually beneficial discussions between ment in Education or Training”. The jury awarded the Isalos.
Greek and Norwegian maritime stakeholders. This year, the net initiative for its overall contribution to training young
conference, held on 31 May at the Eugenides Planetarium, people who wish to pursue a career at sea and providing
was entitled “Electric Ferries: Establishing a new industry an effective communication channel between the shipping
in Greece”. The event’s main objective was the exchange of industry and the younger generation.
views and experiences between Greek and Norwegian ship-
ping industry representatives, focusing on the prospects of
electric ferries and short-distance ships.
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