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 Piraeus the Greek government-debt crisis started in late 2009 the Greek government planned to privatize several state-owned assets. These assets are believed to be worth around 50 billion euros. One of these assets is the port of Piraeus. In October 2009 Greece leased docks 2 and 3 from PPA to the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company (in short: COSCO) for a 35-year-period. For its presence at the port COSCO is paying 100 million euros every year. Terminal 1 is operated by PPA S.A. and has a capacity of nearly 1 million TEUs. Terminal 2's capacity is 3 million TEUs and is