Diana Shipping's President: Why We Win

TheStreet.com recently sat down with Anastassis "Stacey" Margaronis, president of Diana Shipping, the dry bulk carrier based in Athens.

Margaronis has worked for Diana nearly his entire career, joining the company in 1980, well before it went public. Like his boss, Diana CEO Simeon Palios, and like executives across the Greek dry-bulk trade, Margaronis comes from a long line of shipping pros whose histories interconnect in a complex network of familial and business relationships across the centuries. Margaronis's father was a shipping lawyer, and his uncle a ship owner. And in the early part of the twentieth century, his grandfather worked as a captain on a ship owned by the grandfather of Simeon Palios.

TheStreet.com: How is Diana preparing for an eventual rebound in the economy, after such a severe collapse? ...