An American transport vessel called the Endurance Vehicles Carrier delivered 3,000 Marines, military vehicles and equipment to Greece on Tuesday to participate in the NATO exercise dubbed “Atlantic Resolve 2020.”
The ship is docked at the port of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece.
The military exercises will be held in Romania, and the equipment will be sent there by rail.
MSC contracted ship ARC Endurance arrives in Alexandroupoli, Greece, to deliver U.S. Army 101st Combat Aviation Brigade to the European theater. It takes an outstanding team between U.S. & Greek military allies & port partners to execute an operation of this scale #UnitedWeSail pic.twitter.com/JP7gGTIDey
— U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (@MSCSealift) July 21, 2020
The transportation of troops and military equipment will begin on Thursday, July 23, in the presence of Greece’s National Defense Minister Nikos Panayotopoulos, US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt and chief of the General staff Lieutenant General Konstantinos Floros.