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House flag of Ceres - Image by Jarig Bakker, 8 December 2005
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Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises Ltd. is one of the largest and
oldest shipping companies worldwide, doing business in several sectors
of the maritime industry, and is specialized in ship management. Ceres
is certified since 1998 with the ISO 9002 standard for the quality of
services, and was the first major shipping company in the world to
achieve the ISO 14001 environmental certification (1998).
Ceres operates a fleet of 42 tankers, bulk carriers, and inter-island
ferries.
The Livanos family has a great interest in this firm founded in 1949, family shipping interests in fact going back to 1824. In spring 2005, its tanker fleet was sold to Euronav (formerly part of CMB, Belgium).
Source: Company website
Ivan Sache & Jan Mertens, 7 January 2006
According to Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World (1995) [lgr95], the house flag of Ceres is blue with a yellow border and quartered by a yellow cross and a central yellow diamond. The first and third quarters are charged with a ship over three straight waves, all white. The second and fourth quarters are charged with a yellow wheat sheaf, which is the symbol of Ceres, the ancient Roman goddess of agriculture, known in Greece as Demeter.
Jarig Bakker, 8 December 2005
The flag shown on Josef Nuesse's website shows a garb of 18 yellow flowers in the first and fourth quarters.
The galleys from their design and the way their flag
is flying are pointing to the fly whereas I would have expected them
to be shown sailing to the hoist. Unfortunately there does not appear
to be a sleeve on Josef's flag so there is nothing to confirm whether
it is shown the right way around
Jan Mertens & Neale Rosanoski, 26 November 2006