Panagiotis Zafet
Chief Executive Officer, Seanergy Maritime

Panagiotis Zafet has been our Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors since inception. Mr. Zafet has extensive experience in the management of operations in the maritime shipping industry, as well as the purchase, sale and charter of vessels. Mr. Zafet started in the liner shipping industry in 1986 at Hellasco Shipping Ltd., of which he is a co-owner. Hellasco Shipping Ltd. is active in the trade of timber products and the regular service of vessels trading between Scandinavia, Greece and Cyprus. In 1991, he founded Balthellas Chartering S.A., a ship management and shipbroking company with 2006 revenues of approximately $25 million, where he currently serves as managing director. Under his leadership, Balthellas Chartering expanded its business from the commercial management of vessels into the full-scale management of multipurpose vessels of the highest ice class, container ships, timber carriers and dry cargo ships.

The fleet is trading worldwide with a strong presence in ice bound navigational waters such as the Baltic Sea, White Sea and the Sea of Azov. The Company also specializes in feeder container services offering mostly service in places with limited port infrastructures, such as in the East Mediterranean, North and West African ports, the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and the Far East. Mr. Zafet is also a co-owner and managing director of Hellasco Transport Ltd. Mr. Zafet has a law degree from the Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki and is fluent in three languages. He is a member of the Piraeus Marine Club and the Hellenic Shipbrokers Association.