{"id":6981,"date":"2020-03-28T17:12:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/diana-shippings-ceo-has-covid-19\/6981\/"},"modified":"2020-03-28T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T14:12:28","slug":"diana-shippings-ceo-has-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/diana-shippings-ceo-has-covid-19\/6981\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Shipping\u2019s CEO Has COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simeon Palios, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Greek shipowner Diana Shipping, has tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diana\u2019s board of directors has appointed Semiramis Paliou, the company\u2019s deputy chief executive officer, on a temporary basis, a US SEC filing dated March 24 shows.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Simeon P. Palios has served as the CEO and chairman of Diana Shipping since 2005. He is also CEO and chairman of Athens-based containership owner Performance Shipping, <a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/272143\/greek-diana-containerships-becomes-performance-shipping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously known<\/a> as Diana Containerships.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Greek shipping magnate and owner of football clubs Olympiacos\u00a0and Nottingham Forest Evangelos Marinakis <a href=\"https:\/\/worldmaritimenews.com\/archives\/292410\/marinakis-diagnosed-with-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was also diagnosed with the coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After spending two weeks in isolation, Marinakis underwent a second medical test which turned out negative.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI \u2026 feel the obligation, in these critical times, to address a message inspired by experiencing this brief adventure of mine. It is worth staying at home to protect ourselves and our relatives. By staying at home, we shield ourselves and deny the virus intruding in our lives,\u201d <\/em>he said in a statement issued on March 24.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>World Maritime News Staff<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simeon Palios, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Greek shipowner Diana Shipping, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Diana\u2019s board of directors has appointed Semiramis Paliou, the company\u2019s deputy chief executive officer, on a temporary basis, a US SEC filing dated March 24 shows. Simeon P. Palios has served as the CEO and chairman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[360,1154,122,1396],"class_list":["post-6981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-ceo","tag-covid19","tag-diana","tag-shippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}