Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy (Greece)

The headquarters of the Ministry of Shipping at the Port of Piraeus.

The Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy is a government department of Greece.

History

It was founded as the Mercantile Marine Ministry (Υπουργείο Εμπορικής Ναυτιλίας) in 1936. On 19 September 2007, it was merged with the Ministry for the Aegean and Island Policy (Υπουργείο Αιγαίου και Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής) to form the Mercantile Marine, Aegean and Island Policy Ministry (Υπουγείο Εμπορικής Ναυτιλίας, Αιγαίου και Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής).[1][2] The latter was abolished on 7 October 2009 and the shipping portfolio fell under the new Ministry of the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping. It was re-established as the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries (Υπουργείο Θαλάσσιων Υποθέσεων, Νήσων και Αλιείας) on 30 September 2010, but was again abolished on 27 June 2011 and merged with the Ministry of Regional Development and Competitiveness to form the Ministry of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping.[3] It was re-established as the Ministry of Shipping and the Aegean on 21 June 2012.[4][5] It was abolished on 26 January 2015, and merged into the Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism. It was then reestablished as the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy on 23 September 2015 in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.

List of Ministers for Mercantile Marine

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Georgios Katsifaras 5 July 1982 5 June 1985 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Gerasimos Arsenis 5 June 1985 26 July 1985 Panhellenic Socialist Movement Also Minister for National Economy and Finance
Efstathios Alexandris 26 July 1985 23 September 1987 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Evangelos Giannopoulos 23 September 1987 18 November 1988 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Vasileios Sarantitis 18 November 1988 17 March 1989 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Antonios Dedidakis 17 March 1989 2 July 1989 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Aristotelis Pavlidis 2 July 1989 12 October 1989 New Democracy Coalition Government
Nikolaos Pappas 12 October 1989 11 April 1990 Caretaker government and National unity government
Konstantinos Mitsotakis 11 April 1990 1 October 1990 New Democracy
Aristotelis Pavlidis 1 October 1990 3 December 1992 New Democracy
Alexandros Papadongonas 3 December 1992 13 October 1993 New Democracy
Georgios Katsifaras 13 October 1993 22 January 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Kosmas Sfyrios 22 January 1996 25 September 1996 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Stavros Soumakis 25 September 1996 13 April 2000 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Christos Papoutsis 13 April 2000 24 October 2001 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Georgios Anomeritis 24 October 2001 7 July 2003 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Georgios Paschalidis 7 July 2003 10 March 2004 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Manolis Kefalogiannis 10 March 2004 19 September 2007 New Democracy

List of Ministers for Mercantile Marine, the Aegean and Island Policy (2007–2009)

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Georgios Voulgarakis 19 September 2007 13 September 2008 New Democracy Resigned
Anastasios Papaligouras 13 September 2008 7 October 2009 New Democracy

List of Ministers for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (2009–2010)

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Louka Katseli 7 October 2009 7 September 2010 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Michalis Chrisochoidis 7 September 2010 30 September 2010 Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers for Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries (2010–2011)

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Giannis Diamantidis 30 September 2010 27 June 2011 Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers for Development, Competitiveness and Shipping (2011–2012)

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Michalis Chrisochoidis 27 June 2011 7 March 2012 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Anna Diamantopoulou 7 March 2012 17 May 2012 Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Yannis Stournaras 17 May 2012 21 June 2012

List of Ministers for Shipping and the Aegean

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Konstantinos Mousouroulis 21 June 2012 25 June 2013 New Democracy
Miltiadis Varvitsiotis 25 June 2013 27 January 2015 New Democracy

List of Alternate Ministers of Shipping and the Aegean

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Thodoris Dritsas 27 January 2015 28 August 2015 Syriza
Christos Zois 28 August 2015 23 September 2015 New Reformist Radical Reconstruction Caretaker Cabinet

List of Ministers of Shipping and Island Policy

Name Took Office Left Office Party Notes
Thodoris Dritsas 23 September 2015 Incumbent Syriza

External links

References

  1. ↑ Κυβέρνησις ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ Α. ΚΑΡΑΜΑΝΛΗ Από 10.03.2004 έως 19.9.2007 (in Greek). Athens: General Secretariat of the Government. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Κυβέρνησις ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ Α. ΚΑΡΑΜΑΝΛΗ Από 19.9.2007 έως 7.10.2009 (in Greek). Athens: General Secretariat of the Government. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Κυβέρνησις ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ Α. ΠΑΠΑΝΔΡΕΟΥ Από 6.10.2009 έως 11.11.2011 (in Greek). Athens: General Secretariat of the Government. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Με 39 μέλη η κυβέρνηση του Αντώνη Σαμαρά. in.gr (in Greek) (Athens). 21 June 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
  5. ↑ Κυβέρνησις ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ Κ. ΣΑΜΑΡΑ Από 21/06/2012 έως σήμερα (in Greek). Athens: General Secretariat of the Government. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
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