Short-Sea Cargo Services
Kymaros Cargo is the freight arm of the group. We run scheduled short-sea services in the central Aegean, carrying trailers, project cargo and containerised freight between Piraeus, Lavrio and the Cyclades. The division exists because our instrument customers kept asking us to move things, and it has since grown into roughly a third of group turnover.
The fleet
Three vessels are on the water. Anemos II is our Ro-Ro workhorse and covers the Lavrio rotation. Kalliroi is a general cargo vessel used for project and break-bulk work that will not fit a trailer deck. Stavento B is the smallest of the three and serves the ports where the other two cannot berth at all states of tide.
Reefer capacity is limited and worth booking early: Anemos II carries 24 reefer plug points and the other two vessels have none. Between June and September those 24 points are effectively sold out on every sailing, and a late booking will be refused rather than promised and then dropped.
Schedule and booking
The core rotation is weekly: Piraeus, Paros, Naxos and back to Piraeus, with the Lavrio leg running separately and more frequently. Timetables are published twice yearly and the winter version carries deliberate additional slack, for reasons we have written about at length elsewhere.
The booking cut-off is 16:00 EET on the day before sailing. This is a hard cut-off rather than a guideline — the stowage plan is built after it closes, and cargo added afterwards has nowhere to go. Bookings can be made by telephone or through the cargo desk by email.
Dangerous goods
We accept dangerous goods in IMDG classes 3, 8 and 9, subject to correct declaration and packaging. We do not carry class 1 explosives or class 7 radioactive material on any vessel, and this is not negotiable regardless of quantity or consignee.
A dangerous goods declaration must reach the cargo desk a full working day before the booking cut-off, not at it. Undeclared dangerous goods discovered during loading are refused and reported, and the shipper carries the cost of removal from the quay.
Cargo condition and claims
Where cargo is carried in a hold rather than on a trailer deck, condition monitoring data is available on request as part of the voyage record. Our own vessels are fitted with the hold monitoring equipment the instruments division builds, which means a moisture claim against us is argued from the same timestamped record we would use to defend it. Shippers occasionally find this uncomfortable. We think a shared set of facts is better for everyone than two competing recollections.