instrumental for success.
These reforms are bringing about radical
changes, and their realization required political
courage and persistence, quite often facing
resistance; however, they are the only way for
turning transport organizations into modern carri-
ers and ensuring their viability.
Major Chronic Problems that had
to be Dealt with
The situation that the current government found
in transport may be considered as Greece’s fail-
ure to comply with EU directives (as in the case of
road haulage, where the country had been
T
ransport becomes again a growth instru-
ment, in conjunction with other changes
concerning the access of automobiles to
gas fuels, the activation of the logistics regime
and the establishment of transparency and com-
petition in the markets by abolishing barriers of
entry to the road haulage operator profession.
The Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and
Networks is responsible for completing the
reforms that are underway and for realizing their
financial and operational, as well as social, goals.
Both urban transport reform and the reform of the
railway system and the airports are complex ven-
tures, since their design and implementation rely
on, interact with, and are reflected on, multiple
stakeholder groups and dealing with them is
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Sweeping reforms in
transport
The Greek government is implementing a reform strat-
egy that reaches to the core of chronic problems in the
transportation sector, with the aim of ensuring that it
operates in an efficient manner, serving and respecting
the citizen, and responding to the challenges of our
times and the demands of the critical situation Greece
is going through.
By Panos Bouloukos
photo: Costas Lakafossis
