Chios Marine Club hosted its Annual Christmas Reception for members and guests on Wednesday 17 December 2025 at the Club’s premises downtown Akti Miaouli at the Piraeus waterfront. The event was attended by a large number of participants, members and friends of the Club, with Members exchanging wishes for the upcoming Christmas and New Year Festive Season.
Our newly registered Companies Members were awarded by receiving the relevant plaque created for this purpose. The Event was honored, among others, by: Vice Admiral Trifon Contizas (Commandant of the Hellenic Coast Guard), Leonidas Manolakos (Deputy Governor of Attika/ Alternate Prefect of Political Protection and Coast Guard Policy), Capt. George Arvanitis (Master Mariner, Deputy Regional Governor for Shipping, Ports and Ferry Connections of the North Aegean), Captain (HCG) Christos Fragkias, Captain (HCG) Antonios Doumanis (Director of Seafarers’ Training Directorate), Vice Admiral Rt of the Hellenic Navy Athanasios Makris (Director of the office of the Deputy Minister of Shipping), Lieutenant Commander (HCG) Georgios Kalogerakis (Representative of the Deputy Minister of Shipping & Island Policy, of the Hellenic Parliament), Lieutenant Commander (HCG) Sapfo Kouni, Director General of the Hellenic Mariner’s Retirement Fund Georgia Maniati, Notis Mitarakis (MP for the Prefecture of Chios for ND at the Hellenic Parliament), Dimitris Vlachakos (Deputy Mayor of Piraeus), Nikos Chrysofakis (President of the Piraeus Municipality Shipping Committee), Nikolaos Manolakos (Former Member at Hellenic Parliament for Piraeus), Ioannis Malafis (Mayor of Chios Island, Greece), George Alexandratos (President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping), Rt Radm HCG George Barkatsas (Director-General of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping), Danae Bezantakou (A’ Vice President of International Propeller Club, Port of Piraeus), Dr. Nikolaos Liapis (President of Hellenic Institute of Marine Technology – HIMT), Theodosis Stamatelos (Director, Lloyd’s Register, Greece), Georgios Andreadis (Marine Chief Executive for Greece, Bureau Veritas), Andreas Travlos (South Europe Marine Business Development Manager, RINA), George Xiradakis ( President of the Association of Banking and Financial Executives of Hellenic Shipping), Admiral Rt (HCG) Dimitrios Tsiadis & Vice President of Federation of Chian Associations in Attica, Kostas Gargaropoulos (Board Member of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Capt. Panagiotis Gigis (President of Panhellenic Association of Merchant Navy Masters – PEPEN), Capt. Helen Papadopoulou (General Secretary of Panhellenic Association of Merchant Navy Masters – PEPEN), Capt. Apostolos Kountouris (Vice President of The Nautical Institute’s Hellenic Branch), Capt. Panagis Tzortzatos (Director of Cosmos Training Center), Dimitris Tatanis ( First Vice President of the Hellenic Maritime Club, Hamburg, Germany), Akrivi Brikou (Vice President of WISTA Hellas), Samantha Lourandou (Treasurer of WISTA Hellas), Elias Hajiefremidis (President of WIMA), Antonis Karagiannakis (Journalist and Radio Host of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation – ERT) and other Media representatives. The Event honored many representatives of the Chios Marine Club’s Companies Members and also Markos Tripolites (Former President of the Chios Marine Club).
Our guests received free of charge the Club’s 2026 Diary, which is also distributed free of charge via Golden Cargo SA to Members, Companies Members and Friends of the Club.
The President Capt. Antonis Pitsilos and the Board warmly thanked the Sponsors of the event: Cosmos Training Center (Capt. Panagis Tzortzatos), Triad Ltd (Katerina Theodosiou), Blue Marine Insurance (John Samoladas) and all those present wishing everyone a Happy Festive Season with good Health above all!
Plenty of traditional Greek food, spirits and soft drinks were offered to all guests with music organized by a DJ giving the opportunity to all for a great networking as the year ends and to the new guests to see the Club’s headquarters inaugurated a year ago.
