Veteran shipowner George Procopiou stole the limelight in a panel of top Greek owners at Posidonia on Monday, delivering memorable punchlines on everything from the state of the shipping markets to foreign policy in the Near East.

“Buy anything that is a ship, I would say anything that floats, because almost everything is very cheap now,” the principal of Dynacom and Dynagas told a Capital Link conference in an effort to spread confidence among hundreds of shipping executives in the audience.

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