For as long as most people can remember, the way of getting things done in Greek shipping was to go about it quietly.
Discussions behind closed doors, polite but firm persuasion and little publicity — that was the recipe and, to a certain extent, it remains so.
But over the past five years, relations between the Greek shipping community — not just shipowners but also ancillary services — and the state have been strained, to the point where, on several occasions, normally diplomatic bodies or persons have burst out.
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