Manuel Kulukundis | |
Birth Date: | 12 November 1898 |
Birth Place: | Greece |
Death Date: | (aged 89) |
Death Place: | Southampton, L.I. |
Occupation: | Bankrupt shipping magnate |
Known For: | At its height in the 1950s, the Kulukundis shipping business controlled 25 United States-flagged vessels |
Manuel Kulukundis (1898–1988) was a Greek shipping magnate, who during the 1950s controlled 25 US-flagged vessels, and acquired the Bull Lines. He was in controversy during the Korean war, for refraining to carry cargo to communist countries, entering in an agreement with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. His business was bankrupt by the mid-1960s.[1]
Manuel is a member of the Greek Shipping Hall of Fame.[2]