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:
“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the—a—I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Affection, indulgence, and humor alike are powerless against the instinct of children to rebel. It is essential to their minds and their wills as exercise is to their bodies. If they have no reasons, they will invent them, like nations bound on war. It is hard to imagine families limp enough always to be at peace. Wherever there is character there will be conflict. The best that children and parents can hope for is that the wounds of their conflict may not be too deep or too lasting.”
—New York State Division of Youth Newsletter (20th century)
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents—but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards—and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)