{"id":92543,"date":"2021-09-08T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2021\/09\/portrait-aleco-keusseoglou-president-of-the-societe-dexploitation-des-ports-de-monaco\/"},"modified":"2021-09-17T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T14:45:53","slug":"portrait-aleco-keusseoglou-president-of-the-societe-dexploitation-des-ports-de-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2021\/09\/portrait-aleco-keusseoglou-president-of-the-societe-dexploitation-des-ports-de-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"PORTRAIT. Aleco Keusseoglou, President of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d’exploitation des ports de Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monaco Tribune went to meet this yachting enthusiast, who has helped to boost the number of visitors to Monaco’s three ports since taking up his post in 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

It all started on one of the boats of the family’s luxury cruise company Sun Lines Cruises. “I was practically born on a boat,” smiles Aleco Keusseoglou (61), as he recalls his childhood memories. “Until I was nine years old, I lived on a boat for six months of the year”. So naturally when you learn to walk on water and spend your days sailing, your love of the sea and yachting is bound to last forever.<\/p>\n\n

The company had to be made more dynamic, more commercial. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Arriving in Monaco in 1972 from his native Greece, which he visits whenever he can, the native of Lausanne (Switzerland) grew up in the Principality, before continuing his studies in Switzerland and the United States. Destined to take over his father’s family business one day, Aleco Keusseoglou soon found himself at the head of Sun Lines Cruises. “My father died when I was quite young,” he confides. “I had to take over the business”.<\/p>\n\n

Initiator of the Cala del Forte acquisition in Ventimiglia <\/h2>\n\n

A master in the practice and already very skilled in the maritime domain, the man who became a Monegasque in 2008 made the Greek-based cruise ship company prosper before selling it in 2000. Back in the Principality, Aleco Keusseoglou was given a mission. “Prince Rainier, who was close to my father, shared with me his vision to protect Monaco’s ports with the creation of a seawall. Then the company had to be made more dynamic, more commercial”.<\/p>\n\n

In 2004, H.S.H. Prince Rainier asked him to take over the presidency of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d’exploitation des ports de Monaco. Aleco Keusseoglou officially took up his post on 1st January 2006. Alongside a team of forty-two people who “do a wonderful job” and under his influence, the turnover and profit of the ports of Monaco exploded. Eight million euros in turnover and four million euros in profit in 2006 to twenty-three million euros in turnover and thirteen million euros in profit just before the Covid crisis.<\/p>\n\n

>> READ ALSO:<\/strong> PORTRAIT. Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Deligeard, superhero of the seas<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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