When I first entered the world of Maritime Commerce, I had to face not only a difficult and arduous task but also a vocabulary completely unknown to me, full of heavy and incomprehensible words that sounded strange to my ears. And yet, these words and expressions formed an encoded language that I had to learn quickly and use in everyday life.

My reaction was justified. Are there perhaps equivalent Greek words capable of expressing this jumble of foreign terms on which our modern shipping industry insists relentlessly? [...]

(from the author's Note)