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 for top 100 container ports in 2015 Piraeus ranked 8th in Europe and 3rd the Mediterranean sea. The port of Piraeus is expected to become the busiest port of the Mediterranean in terms of container traffic by 2019. Until the 3rd millennium BC, Piraeus was a rocky island connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year. It was then that the area was increasingly silted and flooding ceased, thus permanently connecting Piraeus to Attica and forming its ports, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of