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:
“Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement—a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“It is ultimately in employers’ best interests to have their employees’ families functioning smoothly. In the long run, children who misbehave because they are inadequately supervised or marital partners who disapprove of their spouse’s work situation are productivity problems. Just as work affects parents and children, parents and children affect the workplace by influencing the employed parents’ morale, absenteeism, and productivity.”
—Ann C. Crouter (20th century)