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 death of an engineer of the Arctric Reefer in 1994.

Goerge Trantalides is a quiet- spoken man with steely will. While some lawyers insist the Greek Supreme Court decision is an anomaly that will never be followed up, others say implications are terrifying for anyone who is a share who is a share- holder of a shipping company. What is for certain is that Trantalides’s victory on behalf of the Filis family is no one- off.