Entering by boat: Greece
What to do to enter Greece by sea: the procedures, the papers to present and the ports where you can clear in.
Based on official sources, checked on 28 October 2026.
Before you arrive
- Online procedure: e-TEPAI (taxe de plaisance) et Transit Log numérique — aade.gr/aadeapps2/etepai/
- Transit Log numérique (myAADE)
The steps
- By the day of entry at the latest: pay the TEPAI cruising tax online (boats over 7 m) and keep the receipt.
- Before or on arrival: apply for the digital Transit Log on myAADE.
- Arriving from outside Schengen (e.g. Türkiye): enter at a port with border control; non-EU nationals are registered in the EES.
- During your stay: keep the crew list up to date.
Papers to have on board
- Passports for the whole crew
- Visas, if your nationality requires them
- Crew list
- Boat papers (registration certificate)
Good to know
- TEPAI per month: €16 (7-8 m), €25 (8-10 m), €33 (10-12 m), €8 per metre above 12 m; fines from €190 to €1,100.
- The Transit Log mainly concerns non-EU boats (including the UK).
Ports of entry
The ports where you can clear in, and the services available there.
- AlexandroupolisCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- GlyfadaCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- IteaCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- KalamataCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- KatakolonCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- KavalaCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- LavrioCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- Le Pirée (marina de Zea)CustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- Nauplie (Nafplio)CustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- PatrasCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- PrevezaCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- PylosCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- ThessaloniqueCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- VolosCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
- VouliagmeniCustomsImmigrationHarbour office
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This information is gathered from public sources and sailors’ experience. It does not replace the country’s authorities, whose word is final: check before you leave.