This is our history, our pride. As you can see the trip of our company through the years with various subjects and adventures. Multitasking is in our DNA.
1966
1966
1984
Operated the shipping department with agency activities of passenger’s vessels, from Patras to Ancona – Italy. Later on, in 1986 developed in the chartering of ships in the line of Patras – Trieste, a pioneering business with a great correspondence of truck drivers and their companies.
1984
In the meanwhile, our travel agency established in Othonos Amalias with the distinctive title «Patras Karlos Tours».
1984
1986
We began our cooperation with tobacco industries, and we took over their whole operation, as tobacco collection from the farmers, forwarding to the ports of Mesologgi, Volos, Amfilohias and Nafplion, issuance of charter parties with the shipping lines, transportation of the goods and loading to general cargo vessels.
1988
Bananas import allowed from ACP countries and later from dollar zone countries. Great station of our business was the port of Aigion, where becomes transit center of bananas.
1988
1994
Another well-aimed activity of our group was the establishment of a national network of currency exchange bureaus. We were performed all over Greece as Patras, Athens, Igoumenitsa, Kos Island, Corfu, Zakynthos, and Kalamata.
1995
After our clients request we expanded to the port of Nea Peramos – Kavala where we installed inside the port warehouse with cooling chambers with the view to handling cargos of our bananas clients.
1995
2000
We added to our company portfolio the activity of growing fresh fish and trading seafood using owned refrigerated trucks, and transport them in several EU countries.
2001
2001
2011 to today
The new era
We developed a company of solar energy parks.
Due to the evolution of transport methods in the banana cargo from reefer vessels to container vessels, we settled at the port of Thessaloniki. There, we formed cooling chambers for our clients’ needs, for storing and controlling of their sensitive cargo.
Consecutively, at the port of Piraeus, we started transacting customs clearances to our bananas clients. In 2017 we constructed cooling chambers for storing, handling and acting quality control of the cargoes in the area of Aspropirgos.
Today our business activities consist of a wide range of services, such as shipping agency, customs clearance, cargo handling and forwarding, trading operations and total or partial outsourcing of those. The headquarters of our group is located in the centre of Patras, a lovely and convenient city. Our perspective remains bright with new and higher objectives imposed from Mr. Nick Karlos, the successor of our family-culture company. We keep looking skyward.
“Today our business activities consist of a wide range of services, such as shipping agency, customs clearance, cargo handling and forwarding, trading operations and total or partial outsourcing of those.”
