Gregory callimanopulos shipping magnate
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Pericles G. Callimanopulos
PERICLES Callimanopulos dedicated most of his career to establishing an international liner company that would also serve the Greek economy.
His steady quest to achieve this vision makes him a unique figure in the annals of Greek shipping.
Gregory callimanopulos shipping magnate
He was born in Patras in 1892, into a family that only a few decades earlier had been prominent fighters in the Greek revolution against the Ottoman Empire. Courage and independence were also hallmarks of his shipping career.
Despite his studies in English, French and accounting, a scarcity of jobs in a desolate Greek economy just before the Balkan Wars forced the young Callimanopulos to emigrate to Egypt to find work after leaving school.
A first job in Alexandria set him on an early career in ship agency work and he rose to a managerial position in the network of Koulis & Co., for which he worked in both Piraeus and Alexandria.
His professional career was interrupted by the First World War when he served in th