Dear TradeWinds,

As the years pass, one becomes accustomed to reading of the deaths of people one has known, but I was particularly saddened when I read in your columns today of the passing of my friend Elias Kulukundis.

I had known Elias both professionally and personally since the 1980s. I made some introductions for him when he was embarking on his first solo shipowning ventures and in the 1990s he invested some capital in the hedge fund which I co-managed with Jay Goodgal.