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EXPRESS FERRIES – AEGEAN CARGO
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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