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Livanos (Shipping company, Greece)

Presentation of Livanos
M.G. Livanos
S. Livanos
S. Livanos Hellas
N.G. Livanos Maritime Co.

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Presentation of Livanos

Georges Livanos was born in 1926 in New Orleans. His father, Stavros Livanos, was a great figure in Greek shipowning circles. During the Second World War, Georges Livanos served in the American army in Japan. In 1946, he received a degree in economics from the University of Athens. In 1949, he founded his own company, Ceres Hellenic Shipping. Shortly after, he inherited his father's fleet of 30 ships, including the world's five largest supertankers.
Although rivals in business, the Greek shipowning families had close personal ties through the marriages of Georges Livanos' sisters. Eugenia Livanos married a competitor, Stavros Niarchos, and her sister Tina married Aristotle Onassis. After Eugenia's death, Tina divorced and remarried Stavros Niarchos, Aristotle Onassis' lifelong rival. Georges Livanos managed his naval empire from Lausanne (Switzerland). With over 100 ships, his fleet was the largest merchant navy in Greece. He also created a shipping company between the Greek Isles and was involved in the protection of ocean and coastal waters. Livanos was the founder of Helmepa, the Greek-based organization which pioneered maritime environmental awareness within the Mediterranean region. In 1994, his fortune was an estimated 3 billion dollars.
The Greek shipowner then diversified his activity and invested in real estate, as well as in the banking industry with Basil Goulandris, another Greek shipowner also based in Lausanne. Georges Livanos passed away in 1997, leaving his business to his son, Peter Livanos.

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Ivan Sache, 7 January 2006

M.G. Livanos

House flag of M.G. Livanos - Images by Jarig Bakker, 25 December 2004
Left, for ships sailing under the Greek flag
Right, for ships sailing under foreign flag

According to The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels (1959), the house flag of M. G. Livanos, a company based in Piraeus, is a blue triangular flag with a smaller blue triangle bordered in white with a white horizontal stripe and a white disk charged with a blue letter Λ.

For ships sailing under foreign flag, the Greek letter Λ is replaced on the flag by its Latin equivalent L.

Jarig Bakker, 25 December 2004

S. Livanos

House flag of S. Livanos - Images by Jarig Bakker, 5 January 2005
Left, for ships sailing under the Greek flag
Right, for ships sailing under foreign flag

According to The Caltex book of Flags and Funnels (1959), the house flag of S. Livanos, a company based in Chios, is white with a blue Greek frieze and a red letter Λ.

For ships sailing under foreign flag, the Greek letter Λ is replaced on the flag by its Latin equivalent L.

Jarig Bakker, 5 January 2005

S. Livanos Hellas

House flag of S. Livanos Hellas - Imags by Jarig Bakker, 14 September 2005

According to Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World (1995) [lgr95], the house flag of S. Livanos Hellas is white with a blue Greek frieze and a red letter L.

Jarig Bakker, 14 September 2005

N.G. Livanos Maritime Co.

House flag of N.G. Livanos Maritime Co. - Imags by Jarig Bakker, 14 September 2005

According to Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World (1995) [lgr95], the house flag of N.G. Livanos Maritime Co. is white with a blue Greek frieze and a blue letter L.

Jarig Bakker, 14 September 2005