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Blue Star Ferries won a distinction<br>at the annual «Efkranti» awards
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Athens, February 11, 2011
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Blue Star Ferries, member of Attica Group, has been awarded with the “Best Strategic Communication Award” at the annual “Efkranti Awards”.  The prize consummates the company’s continuity and consistency regarding its stable, transparent and substantial communication policy.
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“Efkranti Awards” is an annual event organized by the Magazine “Naftika Chronika”, in cooperation with the Hellenic Association of Maritime Economists, highlighting the maritime personalities of the year that marked 2010 with their progress, proposals and contribution. The organizational committee of the awards is characterized by its essential experience in the maritime life and ensures its credibility and objectiveness since it is comprised by higher education professors, reputable shipping press editors, journalists of the shipping reportage as well as columnists of the periodical press.
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Blue Star Ferries would like to thank the press society and also the members of the Hellenic Association of Maritime Economists for this distinction and to express its commitment to practice with responsibility, policies based on transparency and open dialogue.





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