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The third group of state property targeted for privatization by the Troika includes airports, roads and ports. Solely from the port of Piraeus, where the state controls 74.14 percent, nearly 260 million Euros can be obtained. Other nearly 102 million Euros can be taken from the port of Thessaloniki, where the state owns 74.27 percent of the shares. In this group falls Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, where the proposal is to extend its concession. The same goes for Attiki highway, which connects Athens with the airport. This category includes all ports and airports on Greek islands and outside big cities, for most of which studies and expert assessments have already been prepared.
The fourth group of privatization goals includes unlisted companies, which are one hundred percent state owned. These are the Athens metro, which is estimated at over 2 billion 831 million Euros, bus transportation in the capital, whose value is over 2 billion 223 million Euros, the Greek State Railways, which is estimated at over 4 billion 799 million Euros and the tram transportation of Athens, costing over 213 million Euros.
In the fifth group the Troika has included the real estate of the state. As Servaas Deroose said in a statement for Vima newspaper: "Sell beaches. This way you will reduce your debt and you will develop tourism.”