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SIGMA FERRIES
The notices I’ve about this company are in fact very few: belonging to Simantonis family, which is mainly known for its successful
Greek shipping magazine named “Efoplistis” (Greek
word for “shipowner”), it seems to have operated only a single ferry, the
NERAIDA II, which was bought in spring 1989 to operate out of Piraeus to the Argosaronic islands of Aegina, Methana,
Poros, Hydra, Spetses and Porto Heli, a small town on
Argolic Peninsula in mainland Peloponnese, a very
interesting ferry route which has disappeared nowadays, when car ferries from
Piraeus to Argosaronic islands doesn’t go more far
than Poros.
The venture of this company, according to the notices I’ve (or I haven’t)
found, lasted only a season: at the beginning of 1990, the NERAIDA II was sold and
I’ve not further info about Sigma Ferries, nor I have before the Summer of
1989; after that period, I know Simantonis family
only as successful press publishers, which gave birth to “Efoplistis”
magazine in March 1993, and still is available at newsstands (or, as Greeks say,
at περίπτερα) after more than 30 years and during times which aren’t easy for publishing
industry.