After 33 years as a shipbroker, ­Vasilis Kakoulidis is not easily shaken. Not even by an earthquake hitting during the middle of an ­interview with TradeWinds.

The tremor on 19 July was the biggest to strike Athens in two decades. But after a couple of minutes to check that family and staff in his office were all right, the owner and managing director of Oino Shipbrokers calmly walked back into the meeting room to continue the talk as if nothing had happened.