The Danaos Managerial Conference 2013, took place at our Piraeus office on Friday the 1st of November 2013. We were happy to welcome our colleagues from offices abroad and exchange our views and thoughts on our teams’ performance, as well as ways to enhance the communication amongst our offices and vessels.The event began with a warm welcome speech from Dr. Coustas and Mr. Prokopakis and continued with the presentations of our representatives: each office made an overall presentation incorporating an end of the year synopsis, discussing statistical data on crew hiring, retention and training. Moreover, after our lunch break, a Danaos workshop took place entitled “Managing Crisis and Media Handling”, enhancing our knowledge on how to handle critical situations/events, how to compose a press release, as well as how to “protect” ourselves in front of the camera. In addition at the end of the workshop, Mr. Prokopakis presented data on the operations of a vessel as well as general statistical information on the daily operational budget and crew retention.
 Closing this interesting and fruitful day, we had a tasteful dinner with a beautiful view of the Acropolis in a Greek restaurant.
 
The following day an excursion was on its way!
 
On Saturday, November 2nd, 2013, we organized a small trip for the Conference participants, especially planned for our colleagues visiting us from aboard.We had the chance to visit Delfi the famous centre of the Ancient World, the Omphalos (Navel of Earth) whose prestige extended far beyond the boundaries of the Hellenic World. We also visited the Treasury of the Athenians, the Temple of Apollo and the famous Delfi Museum. The visit was followed by a traditional lunch in a famous Greek Tavern, having a picturesque mountain view .
We are proud to have organised another eventful Conference and we thank you all very much for your contribution and for sharing your view and ideas at this very important, for our Company, meeting.