Paul Ioannidis. Video frame from YoutubePaul Ioannidis, who was one of the closest friends and associates of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, died at the age of 97 on Saturday, May 1.Ioannidis was a lifetime member of the Onassis Foundation’s Board of Directors. He was appointed as such by Onassis himself. When Onassis died…
New Bedford Seafood Plant to Get $602,000 Investment
The parent company of Seatrade International has landed a $602,000 state-backed loan to upgrade its seafood processing and distribution facility at 10 North Front St. in New Bedford.
East Coast Seafood, LLC, will use the loan to buy new scallop and lobster processing equipment, install automation processes, increase packaging options, and adjust order logistics, according to a news release from MassDevelopment.
Seatrade International says the plant upgrades will improve efficiency, product quality, and lead to quicker lead times on order shipments. The news release said the project could create 80 jobs over the next year. This loan will help a Massachusetts seafood processing and distribution company, East Coast Seafood, LLC, grow jobs, get products to market more efficiently, and in turn help maintain the Commonwealth s national and global leadership in the seafood industry, said MassDevelopment President and CEO Dan Rivera
Tony Nash, Derek Dickins and Themis Vokos taken in the very early days of Seatrade A look back over the half-century history of Seatrade and this its flagship magazine, first launched by company founder Themis Vokos 50 years ago.
The vision of Seatrade founder Themistocles Vokos was to create a news medium that would focus on the business of maritime transport, appealing as much to the owners of cargo and the financial and trading communities as to traditional shipping – an ‘Economist’ for the sea transportation industry.
At a time when ideas about the globalisation of trade were starting to be recognised, the new magazine was intended to cover the patterns of global seaborne trade, as much as the operational and technical sides of the industry. Seatrade’s first editor Robert Hawkins was hired from the Financial Times and a network of correspondents was set up covering Australia, South America and the Middle East, as well as the more established shipping centres in