Euploia Drydocks & Services Ltd is a well established company in the maritime industry. The company’s daily mission is to meet and exceed customer’s expectations by providing Products & Services of the highest standards in local and worldwide markets. How difficult is this to be achieved during the Pandemic having so many Principals to manage?
In general, the pandemic radically changed the way we communicated with the clients and the Principals. Clearly made our work more difficult, complicated and most of the time ineffective. In past, we were all accustomed to visiting customers at their offices, traveling abroad to visit our Principals and
even taking part in exhibitions in order to close new collaborations for the good future of our company. E-meetings was a good working tool that did the work as a substitute for almost 2 years, however, the negative impact of the pandemic restrictions is obvious to all companies in the maritime industry and in most working fields in general.
Our principals have had our highest attention during the pandemic restrictions and we continue to be in constant communication with them via video calls, telephone calls and emails. They too are anxious to leave behind the difficult times of the pandemic and to visit the clients so that we all move forward. We have been and still are in many cases the bridge between our principals and our clients trying to keep them close, which was a difficult task during the pandemic restrictions, due to the reduced accessibility attributed to working remotely from home. It took increased efforts to co-ordinate all business issues efficiently, in our efforts to serve our clients keeping our high standards; there have been cases of delays as well as other issues caused by the pandemic restrictions, but we always apply our 100% and our clients know that and appreciate our devotion. I believe that doing one’s best and putting clients above all is a matter of character and not a matter of gender. However, speaking for myself and my team, I should point out that women’s persistence on getting things done as well as their emotional side , at the end of the day make the positive difference.
In closing, I would like to emphasize that women certainly play an important role in the field of Ship- ping and as everything shows, the future looks bright for them.
* CO-PARTNER | DIRECTOR Euploia Drydocks & Services Ltd
The answer was provided for NAFS magazine issue 143 in its special report “WOMEN in SHEPPING”