Venezelos SA was a shipping company established in Athens in the 1960s.
The company was managed by Nikitas Venizelos who became a prominent Greek politician.
[1] By 1965 the company had a mixed fleet of 11 cargo ships and oil tankers.
[1] In 1966 they were owners of MV Joanna V, an oil tanker which attempted to break the blockade established to enforce UN sanctions against Rhodesia.
On 7 February they chartered the ship, then called MV Arietta Venizelos, to Yiorgos Vardinogiannis.