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House flag of Athenian Sea Carriers - Image by Jarig Bakker, 3 February 2006
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The company traced back to the Kyriakou
Shipping and Trading Co. (thus explaining the K on the house flag),
established seven generations ago in 1852. In 1979, the company entered
the petroleum products business by ordering eight products carriers
from the Kherson shipyard, then in USSR. In 1992, the company became
solely engaged in the petroleum products sectors.
Athenian Sea carriers was the first shipping company to obtain ISO 9001
certification for the desgin, development and provision of training
courses to its seafarers. The company flagships are two Suezmax tankers
called Athenian Freedom and Captain X. Kyriakou.
Source: Company website
Minos Kyriakou (b. 1942) established in 1965 Athenian Tankers Inc.,
with two small tankers he already owned. He initially built his
business on the transportation of vegetable oils. In 1976, he
established two oil trading corporations, Bacoil International and
Athenian Oil Trading Inc., which trade petroleum products worldwide. At
the age of 38, Minos became the youngest member of the Lloyd's Register
of Shipping Committee in London, which oversees some 60 committees.
In 1999 Minos Kyriakou expanded his activities by establishing Antenna
Group, the leading media group in Greece and the Greek-speaking world.
In 1997, Kyriakou took over the Panellinios athletics club. The club
organizes the Athens Tsiklitiria international meeting; in 1999,
Maurice Green ran the 100 m in 9"79 (world record). In 2002, the IAAF
decided to include the Athens meeting among the seven meetings of the
Super Grand Prix. Kyriakou is also President of the the Hellenic
Olympic Committee.
Source: Hellenic Olympic Commitee website
Ivan Sache, 1 October 2006
According to Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World (1995) [lgr95], the house flag of Athenian Sea Carriers is horizontally divided yellow-blue-yellow (c. 1:4:1) with a white letter K (for Kyriakou) in the middle.
Jarig Bakker, 3 February 2006