Meeting with Goldenport Holdings chief executive John Dragnis is like travelling back to the pre-Lehman era.. Before you sits a young, sharply-dressed shipowner with a famous father talking energetically about expansion ambitions and dividend payments for the family's listed venture..

While the company and the location for the interview at the London offices of investment bank Panmure Gordon & Co may be a blast from the heady recent past, Dragnis is under no illusions that he and Goldenport are operating in a very different world today..

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