But that was the very difference of the Greek owners compared to the north European competitors. They knew how to operate an old vessel (no longer wanted by the owners who built her).A family run business, with Masters and officers who knew the owner in person and all together run the ship efficiently. By the way, Arkadiki (which meand in Hellenic Arcadian, after the south part of Greece prefecture of Arcadia) still maintains its registered office but the D.K.Efstathiou family do not own a ship at present.

Thanks Acrop. She was built as the ILSE SCHULTE (Schulte & Bruns, Emden). I have a few more old Greek tramp ships still working 1980s to upload! Were it not for the perseverance of Piraeus ship investors they would have all been scrapped prematurely..

Owners was Demetrios K. Efstathiou