Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus Applied Sciences offers several approved graduate courses independently or in cooperation with universities and abroad. The university campus is in a grove 100,000 sq.m in the wider area which housed the Academy of Plato. The facilities are near the port of Piraeus with bus services and metro connection to the metropolitan area of Athens. Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus The Piraeus University of Applied Sciences (, A.E.I. Πειραιά Τ.Τ.), also known as Technological Education Institute of Piraeus (TEIPIR), is a public higher education institute supervised by the Ministry of Education and Research. It was created by a special law in
Port of Thessaloniki Port of Thessaloniki The Port of Thessaloniki () is one of the largest Greek seaports and one of the largest ports in the Aegean Sea basin, with a total annual traffic capacity of 16 million tonnes (7 million tonnes dry bulk and 9 million tonnes liquid bulk). As a free port, it also functions as a major gateway for the Balkan hinterland and southeastern Europe. The Port of Thessaloniki also contains the second largest container port in Greece, after the Port of Piraeus. In 2007 the Port of Thessaloniki handled 14,373,245 tonnes of cargo and 222,824 TEU's, making it one