“The sea for us here in Vrontados, fifty or sixty years ago, was a welcome path toward professional stability, since not everyone had the opportunity to study. So we turned to the ships, either on deck or in the engine room. We listened to stories from the older sailors and our imagination would run to the ports and seas of the whole world. We wanted to go there too — to see them, to get to know them, to live them ourselves. In this way, we made reality of everything we had heard from those who came before us,” says Chief Engineer Dimitris Kosmas.
Mr. Kosmas has twenty years of official service at sea, along with several additional years that were uninsured. As he points out, Greek merchant shipping owes a great deal to ordinary seafarers, to the vast workforce aboard the ships who worked hard to raise Greek shipping to such heights. “That is why our shipowners also support these local communities through their work and initiatives,” he adds.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Produced and presented by Antonis Karagiannakis