Families
Most Greek shipping has been run as a family business, with family members located in key ports or in key positions, and with marriages cementing relationships between commercial dynasties. These close-knit families have allowed financially sensitive information to be kept within the local community, with many transactions kept within trusted family networks.
The twentieth century saw more Greek shipping families established, including:
- Lemos of Oinousses
- Pateras of Oinousses
- Onassis of Smyrna
- Mavroleon
- Livanos of Chios
- Carras of Chios
- Goulandris of Andros
- Embeirikos of Andros
- Kulukundis
- Latsis of Peloponnese
- Negroponte of Syros
- Chandris of Chios
- Niarchos of Piraeus
- Economou
- Vintiadis
- Los of Chios
- Eugenidis
- Soutos of Samos
Other contemporary shipowners include:
- Tsakos
- Angelopoulos
Read more about this topic: Greek Merchant Navy
Famous quotes containing the word families:
“Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described—and will be, after our deaths—by each of the family members who believe they know us.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)