AGAPITOS express ferries
Aegean Cargo
The
company AGAPITOS EXPRESS FERRIES was founded in 1992 by Kostas
and Ioannis Agapitos after the “divorce” of Agapitos
Bros; the six ferries of the former company were equally divided between
Agapitos Lines and Agapitos Express Ferries, while the ships “Express Olympia”,
“Aigaion” and “Kyklades”,
soon renamed “Express Efvoikos”, were assigned to the
latter company, together with the licences of the routes to Paros,
Naxos, Ios, Santorini and Eastern Cyclades.
In 1994 the “Aigaon” was substituted by the new ship
“Express Santorini”, and the “Express Efvoikos” sold to Ventouris
Lines. The bankruptcy of this company and of the parent company Ventouris Sea Lines led to a considerable growth of
Agapitos fleet: the “Express Efvoikos”returned home
under the name “Express Danae” for the new Saronikos Islands line (Aegina - Methana - Poros - Hydra - Spetses) and the new “Express Apollon”,
former “Apollo Express 1”,
strengthened the presence of the company on Cyclades routes. The following year two more
former Ventouris ships joined the fleet: the “Express
Athina”, directly from V.S.L. bankruptcy, and the
“Express Hermes”, bought from Ventouris Ferries with
her operating licence for Rafina – Andros – Tinos – Mykonos line, even if Agapitos
decided to employ the “Express Athina” on this line.
On that year also the “Express Afrodite” was acquired
to serve Syros, Tinos and Myconos
islands. In November 1999 Minoan Flying Dolphins acquired all the ferries of Kostas Agapitos’s company and
“Agapitos Express Ferries” stops its services. Surprisingly the company comes
back in 2001 with a two- ro/ro ship service between Piraeus and Heraklion, with very interesting financial figures; soon
the ships were chartered by Anek which rebranded the ships as Anek
Cargo. Agapitos acqyired later many other ro/ro’s like the “Aegean Glory”, the “Aegean Sun”, later
renamed “Archagelos” and, in recent times, the
“Acacia” and the “Aegean Fantasy”, ferries which were usually chartered to Anek Cargo, the cargo division of the Cretan company. There
are regular rumours about a comeback of Kostas
Agapitos on passenger ferry market, a fact which happened for a while with the
“Athina” operated by Nova Ferries, but these rumours
until now remained only rumours.
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