Aegean Steam Navigation Company
Aegean Steam Navigation Company | |
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legal form | |
founding | 1883 |
resolution | 1911 |
Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
Seat | Istanbul |
management | Panos Kourtzis |
Branch | Shipping company |
The Aegean Steam Navigation Company PM Kourtzis & Co. ( Greek Ατμοπλοϊα Αιγαίου ) was an Ottoman shipping company . It was founded in 1883 by Panos Kourtzis and was based in Istanbul . The banker Georgios Zarifis , who had owned a patent for operating steamboats on the Golden Horn since 1880, held a 30% stake in the company.
At its greatest boom, the company had 12 passenger steamers from 250 to 3000 tons . They were named after port cities and islands: Panormos , Crete , Chios , Mytilini , Smyrna , Trabzon , Marseille , Brăila , Odessa , Iraklea , Kardif and Naples . The steamers operated between Istanbul and destinations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea . They carried passengers, goods and mail. They received no payment for transporting the mail. In return, however, they received a discount on the port fee.
Routes:
- Istanbul - Smyrna - Aegean Islands - Crete
- Istanbul - Thessaloniki - Volos
- Istanbul - Lesbos - Chios
- Istanbul - Varna - Galați
from mid-1887:
- Istanbul - Ereğli - Kozlu - İnebolu - Samsun - Trabzon - Giresun - Altınordu - Fatsa - Ünye - Samsun - Sinop - İnebolu - Koslu - Istanbul
from the end of the 19th century:
- Istanbul - Trieste
In order to gain independence from the price of coal, Panos bought Kourtzi's hard coal mines in Kozlu, Zonguldak and Karadeniz Ereğli. He also had a shipyard built in Istanbul where the ships could be serviced and repaired. The Mytilene Bank later acquired the Aegean Steam Navigation Company. In 1897, during the Turkish-Greek War , the company made losses. In 1911, in the course of the bankruptcy proceedings of the Bank of Mytilene, the Aegean Steam Navigation Company was dissolved.
literature
- Kristis Konnaris: Ιστορικό Αρχείο Αιγαίου "Εργάνη" , Mytilini 2007 ( online )
- Evridiki Sifneos: “What is the extraction of coal at Kozlu and Zonguldak mines profitable?” An attempt at an answer from the Courdgi papers in THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PORT-CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN BLACK SEA COAST AND HINTERLAND, LATE 18TH - BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY , Corfu 2017, pp. 109–121.