ANEK Lines
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| Traded as | (: ) |
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| Industry |
Shipping Transport |
| Founded | 1967 |
| Founder | Archbishop Irineos Galanakis |
| Headquarters | Chania, Crete, Greece |
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Area served
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Adriatic Sea Crete Aegean islands Italy Mediterranean |
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Key people
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Georgios Katsanevakis (President) Yannis S. Vardinoyannis (CEO) |
| Products | Commercial, passenger transport and cargo |
| Revenue |
 €1.57 billion (2015)
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 €162 million (2015)
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| Total assets |
€2.48 billion (2015)
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| Total equity |
€974 million (2015)
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| Owners | Yannis S. Vardinoyannis (37.52%) Amalia Vardinoyannis (26.62%) Piraeus Bank (24.17%) |
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Number of employees
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 1,630 (end 2015)
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| Website | www |
ANEK Lines (Ανώνυμη Ναυτιλιακή Εταιρεία Κρήτης, Anó̱̱nimi Naftiliakí Etaireía Krḗtēs) is the largest passenger shipping company in Greece. It was founded in 1967 by numerous shareholders who were inhabitants of Crete. It operates passenger ferries, mainly on Piraeus-Crete and Adriatic Sea lines.
Today the company is listed on the Athens Stock Exchange (: ) and 37.5% owned by Cyprus-based Sea Star Capital PLC (Yannis S. Vardinoyannis).
Also Amalia Vardinoyannis holds a 26.9% stake through her holding company Varmin.
In Crete protests broke out after the Typaldos Lines car ferry SS Heraklion capsized due a series of safety regulations violations. The ship sank on her way from Chania to Piraeus on 8December 1966, resulting in the death of more than 200 people.
In the aftermath a few hundreds of Cretans (traders, free-lancers, pensioners, farmers) following a proposal by the Association of Economists of the Chania Prefecture and the support of the Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, Irineos Galanakis, implement their idea to found a multi-shareholder shipping company.
Therefore, on
Exploitation, the Directorate of Technical Services and the Piraeus main agency
east Aegean and specifically the Piraeus-Syros-Mykonos-Ikaria-Fourni–Samos route and in September this new company undertook the Heraklion route which it is servicing by chartering Parent Company’s vessels
On 7 June 2011 ANEK Lines and Superfast Ferries created a joint venture for the Piraeus-Heraklion and the Patra-Igoumenitsa-Ancona routes with two RO-PAX ships on the first route (the ANEK-owned Olympic Champion and the Superfast-owned Superfast XII) and three in the second route (the ANEK-owned Hellenic Spirit and the Superfast-owned Superfast VI and Superfast XI).
Companies that are affiliates of ANEK Lines (larger than 10%) are outlined below. ANEK Group:
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