Israel welcomes Cyprus’ efforts to reinstate the Cyprus-Greece maritime passenger hyperlink and the potential of extending the connection to Israel.
A doable extension of the Cyprus-Greece sea reference to Israel will create a brand new marketplace for tourism between Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Europe, in accordance with a press launch on Sunday by the Deputy Ministry of Transport.
It additionally stated that in a current on-line assembly the Israeli Minister of Transport and Street Security Merav Michaeli and the Deputy Minister of Transport of Cyprus Vassilis Demetriades centered on this risk.
“They first reaffirmed the wonderful relations between Israel and Cyprus within the area of maritime transport, declaring that they are going to be additional strengthened for the mutual advantage of each nations,” it stated.
“The dialogue then centered on Cyprus` efforts to ascertain a maritime passenger connection between Cyprus and Greece by means of an open tender,” it added.
Michaeli and Demetriades shared the view that the potential of extending the Cyprus-Greece maritime reference to Israel will facilitate the free motion of individuals and can enrich the out there choices for transportation between the three nations, that are at the moment restricted to air transport.
It was recognised that the ocean connection may also serve the wants of particular classes of residents who’re unable to journey by air both due to medical causes, age or aerophobia.
The Israeli Minister of Transport and the Cypriot Deputy Minister of Transport additionally harassed that the creation of an alternate approach of transporting passengers by sea is a extra environmentally pleasant possibility in relation to air transport.