But it was not the sea captain who founded Greek shipping company Tsakos Shipping & Trading.
It was 12-year-old Panagiotis Tsakos, the elder Tsakos’s grandson and captain of his local soccer team.
“I must be the youngest commodore ever. Even younger than Peter Evensen,” he said, referring to the Teekay chief executive.
The Tsakos empire heir apparent, son of Tsakos Energy Navigation chief executive Nikolas Tsakos, accepted the annual honour on behalf of his grandfather today at the Commodore Gala at CMA’s Shipping 2015 conference in Stamford.
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