The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport ( el, Υπουργείο Υποδομών και Μεταφορών) is a

government department Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энцикло� ...

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...

headquartered in

Cholargos Holargos ( el, Χολαργός, also: ''Cholargos'') is a suburb of Athens, Greece, located northeast of the city center and about away from Syntagma Square. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Papagou-Chola ...

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

. The current minister is

Kostas Karamanlis Konstantinos A. Karamanlis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Αλεξάνδρου Καραμανλής; born 14 September 1956), commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis ( el, Κώστας Καραμανλής, ), is a Greek politician who served as the ...

in the

Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis The Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in on 9 July 2019, following the Greek legislative election in July 2019. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of New Democracy, was sworn in as Prime Minister of Greece on 8 July. The government consists of ...

History

The ministry is the successor of the old Ministry of Transport and Communications (Υπουργείο Μεταφορών και Επικοινωνιών), with which the

public works Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and constructed by the government, for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community. They include public buildings ( municipal buildings, sc ...

portfolio of the

Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works The Ministry of the Environment, Urban Planning and Public Works of Greece ( el, Υπουργείο Περιβάλλοντος, Χωροταξίας και Δημοσίων Έργων, commonly abbreviated as ΥΠΕΧΩΔΕ). Following the electoral ...

was merged on 7 October 2009. A further merger with the Ministry of Development and Competitiveness created the Ministry of Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks on 21 June 2012, but this was reversed on 25 June 2013.

List of ministers

Ministers for Transport and Communications

Ministers for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2009–2012)

Minister for Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2012–2013)

Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2013-2015)

Alternate Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2015)

Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (2015–2016)

Ministers for Infrastructure and Transport (since 2016)

Subordinate agencies

Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board The Hellenic Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board (AAIASB, el, Επιτροπή Διερεύνησης Aτυχημάτων και Ασφάλειας Πτήσεων, ΕΔΑΑΠ) is the air accident investigation agency of Greece. I ...

Organization
" Air Accident Investigation and Aviation Safety Board. Retrieved on 20 June 2011.

References

External links

Ministry website
Infrastructure and Transport Transport organizations based in Greece Infrastructure and Transport

{{Greece-gov-stub