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Atlas Maritime has been featured in the following publications:

" Leon Patitsas: ‘We will be better’: Tradewinds 26 May 11

‘’ Greek shipping families in the spotlight’’: Financial Times 21 August 2010

"Tulane University MBA Class Visits Atlas Maritime in Athens"-May, 2010
"Twenty-five MBA students from Tulane University escorted by Professor Mr. Yiorgos Bakamitsos visited Atlas Maritime’s premises to learn about the shipping industry and its practices. during their visit to Atlas, our Technical and Safety & Quality staff presented the Safety Management System and gave them an overview of the technical, as well as the operational, safety and environmental procedures of managing & operating oil tankers, while our finance team gave a presentation on shipping finance and how it has evolved over the past three years. The class was very impressed not only by the presentation given but also from the display of Greek hospitality by our entire office. Most of the students based in Houston, Texas have careers in the oil and gas industry and are members of large corporations such as BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and even NASA!"

" Younger Owners and ships dominate sector: Lloyd’s List 4 March 2010 "

"GREEK SHIPPING SUMMIT: TradeWinds 6 November 2009"

"Cleaning the beaches of Oinousses: Tradewinds 12 June 2009"

"Atlas Maritime pays tribute to family matriarchs: TradeWinds 29 May 2009"

"Atlas Maritime has an affinity for aframaxes: Lloyd' s list Thursday March 5, 2009"

"Voluntary cleanup of beaches at Oinousses - 30 May, 2009"

"The delivery of the new building Aframax tanker"Aspasia Lemos"Atlas Maritime expands its Aframax tanker fleet"-ELNAVI MAY 2009

"Mr. Leon Patitsas of Atlas Maritime Ltd, the youngest member ever, to be elected to the board."-February, 2009
"We have the pleasure to inform you that our Managing Director, Leon Patitsas, has been elected to the board of directors of the Union of Greek Shipowners together with 30 other board members that include some of the best names in Greek Shipping. The UGS is a very prestigious and influential Union and we are honored to be represented on the board of that Union."

"Atlas Maritime takes on the world"-Balkan Economy-June, 2008
"Members of the hosting Lemos-Patitsas family, known Greek and foreign shipowners business people and senior executives from all over the world, and showbusiness personalities, attended."

" Morality needed in addition to entrepreneurship"-Economic Outlook-December, 2007
"Perpetuator of the maritime tradition of the shipowning family Lemos, Leon Patitsas, Managing Director of Atlas Maritime Ltd, ..."

"Atlas bash to celebrate new Paleo Faliro Office"- Trade Winds- 21 December, 2007
"Atlas Maritime of Greece has inaugurated its new offices in Paleo Faliro with a special tribute to its shipping roots on the island of Oinousses."

“Atlas acquires third aframax tanker from TEN” – Lloyd’s List – 21 September, 2007
"Atlas Maritime of Greece has exercised its option to acquire a third aframax sister ship from New-York listed Tsakos Energy Navigation following an agreement reached earlier this year to take over Maria Tsakos and Athens 2004."

"Atlas buys three Ten aframaxes"-Trade Winds- 29 June, 2007
"Atlas Maritime of Greece is making a splash in the aframax sector with the purchase of three units from US-listed Tsakos Energy Navigation (TEN)."

"Atlas tries hand at the wet trades"- Trade Winds- 18 May, 2007
"Atlas Maritime is making its mark in the wet sector. The Leon Patitsas-led family business, which represents a multitude of generations active in the maritime sector, has a modest, albeit expensive newbuilding orderbook."

“It’s all in the timing” – Skuld – April 2007
"Leon S. Patitsas, 31, is a mechanical engineer and a Master of Finance. He wrote his Master’s theses at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and called it ‘Shipping: Is it a High Risk, Low Return Business?’ Now he is proudly putting his theories into practice and experiencing the immediate feedback from a real-world market.