Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries (Greece)

The building of the Ministry of Maritime Commerce in Piraeus harbor, Greece

The Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries of Greece (Greek: Υπουργείο Θαλάσσιων Υποθέσεων, Νήσων και Αλιείας) resulted from the merger of the Ministry for Mercantile Marine (Υπουργείο Εμπορικής Ναυτιλίας), founded in 1936, and the Ministry for the Aegean (Υπουργείο Αιγαίου), founded in 1985. The two ministries were merged in 2007 to form the Ministry for Mercantile Marine and Island Policy.

The latter was abolished on 6 October 2009 but re-established under its new name on 7 September 2010. The ministry was again abolished on 17 June 2011 and merged with the Ministry for Regional Development and Competitiveness.

List of Ministers for Mercantile Marine

	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Notes
	Georgios Katsifaras	5 July 1982	5 June 1985	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Gerassimos Arsenis	5 June 1985	26 July 1985	Panhellenic Socialist Movement	Also Minister for National Economy and Finance
	Efstathios Alexandris	26 July 1985	23 September 1987	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Evangelos Giannopoulos	23 September 1987	18 November 1988	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Vassileios Sarantitis	18 November 1988	17 March 1989	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Antonios Dedidakis	17 March 1989	2 July 1989	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Aristotelis Pavlidis	2 July 1989	12 October 1989	New Democracy	Coalition Government
	Nikolaos Pappas	12 October 1989	11 April 1990		Caretaker government and National unity government
	Konstantinos Mitsotakis	11 April 1990	1 October 1990	New Democracy
	Aristotelis Pavlidis	1 October 1990	3 December 1992	New Democracy
	Alexandros Papadoggonas	3 December 1992	13 October 1993	New Democracy
	Georgios Katsifaras	13 October 1993	22 January 1996	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Kosmas Sfyrios	22 January 1996	25 September 1996	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Stavros Soumakis	25 September 1996	13 April 2000	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Christos Papoutsis	13 April 2000	24 October 2001	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Georgios Anomeritis	24 October 2001	7 July 2003	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Georgios Paschalidis	7 July 2003	10 March 2004	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Manolis Kefalogiannis	10 March 2004	19 September 2007	New Democracy

List of Ministers for Mercantile Marine, the Aegean and Island Policy

	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Notes
	Georgios Voulgarakis‎	19 September 2007	12 September 2008	New Democracy	Resigned
	Anastasios Papaligouras	12 September 2008	7 October 2009	New Democracy

List of Ministers for Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries

	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	Party
	Yiannis Diamantidis	7 September 2010	17 June 2011	Panhellenic Socialist Movement

See also

• Cabinet of Greece

External links

• Webpage of the Ministry