Trade Winds 20/10/2000 Lawyers delay trial on sinking A long- awaited hearing on the 1994 sinking of the ore carrier Iron Antonis, which claimed 24 lives, has again been postponed by the Piraeus court. The case was due to be heard
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Trade Winds 15/02/2002 Bereaved relatives move to freeze assets of Hellenic Register execs Relatives of the 24 seafarers who died in the 1994 sinking of the ore carrier Iron Antonis are trying to get a whopping EUR 24.6m ($12.8m) in compensation from
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Shipowner Andreas T. Petrakis has been sentenced by a Greek court to seven years jail over sinking of the capsize bulker Iolcos Victory, which went down off South Africa seven years ago. The lives of the Greek master and three seamen aboard
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Trade Winds 03/05/2002 OWNERS SHAKE IN FEAR AFTER RULING An opera – living Athenian who studied law in Britain has Greek shipowners shaking in their boots after winning last week’s ground- breaking judgment that held Costas Comninos personally accountable for the
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