Statement on the alleged arrival of the IDF owned cruise ship Crown Iris at the ship-repair zone in Piraeus.
After cross-checking the available information that the cruise ship Crown Iris, owned by a company of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), is expected to arrive in the ship-repair zone for extensive repair and maintenance works at the Public Power Corporation (PPC) pier in Keratsini, Piraeus, the Administrative Board of our Union convened an emergency meeting to assess the situation.
We remind everyone that the Crown Iris is not an ordinary cruise ship. It belongs to the criminal army of the murderous state of Israel, which carries out a genocide against the heroic Palestinian people, who fight for freedom and for their own homeland.
The Israeli army uses this cruise ship to offer moments of “relaxation” to Israeli soldiers before they return to continue their criminal action, that is, slaughtering women, children, and civilians in Gaza.
We make it absolutely clear in every direction: they are not welcome.
They should not dare to bring it here, because quite simply no repair or maintenance work will be carried out.
No support for the butchers. We stood, we stand, and we will stand in solidarity with the just and heroic struggle of the Palestinian people until liberation.
We denounce the management of Piraeus Port Authority/COSCO, which, aligning itself with the New Democracy (ND) government, at the very same time that it expels ships seeking repairs in the ship-repair zone under the pretext that there is no available space, and rejects applications for the allocation of space at the PPC pier in Keratsini for new ship constructions, rushed with great speed and eagerness to satisfy the request of the Israeli army and to provide it with the necessary space.
We demand that they immediately revoke the approval for the allocation of space to the Crown Iris and make that space available to commercial ships wishing to carry out extensive repair works, and at the same time allocate the requested areas at the PPC pier in Keratsini for new ship constructions.
We call on the Piraeus Regional Union, all trade unions, and especially those involved in the port, to remain on militant alert and, in any case, not to participate in any work that facilitates this specific ship in its attempt to approach the ship-repair docks.
22.12.25
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