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Week 37 - 2011
  • Greek shipping grows larger and younger
  • Greek Ship Owners’ Response To FinMin
  • Shipping on standby as government plots incentives
  • Load Line quietly ups bulker fleet
  • Hellenic Carriers Limited reports 2011 interim unaudited results
  • 34th GL Hellas Committee - 100 Million GT Celebrated, Container Shipping in Focus
  • Greek entrepreneurship is on the rise despite economic crisis
  • ICTSI plans to buy two main Greek ports
  • RS working group has met with officials of Ministry of Development, Competitiveness & Shipping
  • Navios Sagittarius bulk carrier detained in Denmark for 8 weeks

    • Week 36 - 2011
  • Almi leads world in recognising people as key resource
  • ABCML Takes Delivery of Its New Bulk Carrier Built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, South Korea
  • Embiricos grabs bargain VLCC
  • Eurobulk in line for five big boxships
  • Thenamaris extends Samsung LNG order
  • Irika Shipping sentence
  • Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and Greek shipowners suffered from the deceit
  • Greek Shipping Minister: "Citizen safety above all"
  • Dimitroula and Romilda make their final voyage
  • Revoil subsidiary: Delivery and charter of a dry bulk carrier

    • Week 35 - 2011
  • The inheritor. [ Fairplay's interview with Haralambos Fafalios ]
  • Navios under scrutiny on Cosco front
  • Star, Euroseas, Seanergy, Globus on course to better days
  • Eurobank-Alpha Bank merger deal welcomed
  • Qatari Greek bank bailout looks like strategic bet
  • Deputy development minister and PM's aide resigns
  • 13th Ann Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum, 12 October 2011

    • Week 34 - 2011
  • A peek at Greece’s shipping coffers
  • Deputy development minister and PM's aide resigns
  • Greeks smell blood as yards cut prices
  • Cosco Facing Threats of Ship Seizures by Greek Shipowner
  • GenMar given NYSE warning
  • Brokers say Dynagas and Samos Steamship Co have ordered more vessels from South Korean yards

    • Week 33 - 2011
  • Greek Owners Show There’s a First Time for Everything!
  • Polembros ups China bulk tally
  • Bank moves on Newlead
  • NewLead in talks with its lenders to develop capital structure
  • Star Bulk Takes Delivery of Capesize Vessel "Star Mega"

    • Week 32 - 2011
  • ‘High time’ for Greek consolidation
  • HMD wins MR tanker pair
  • Norwegian Bank to finance up to $4B LNG ship orders
  • Weak market hits Crude Carriers ahead of merger
  • Globus Maritime Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter & Six Months Ended June 30, 2011
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended June 30, 2011

    • Week 31 - 2011
  • Squeeze will lead to consolidation of a younger Greek fleet
  • Petrofin analyst predicts shipping slump will last
  • Greek fleet deal is ‘all in the family’
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces Delivery of New Handysize Vessel
  • Thenamaris opts for Marorka's energy management system
  • Cutting red-tape, applying more transparency and wiping out bribery are the three requirements Greek shipowners have
  • Another Container Shipping Company Reports Trading Figures Losses Reduced at Diana Containerships

    • Week 30 - 2011
  • Akti Miaouli - From the Market Place
  • Greek secondhand buys rise
  • Greek owner on handysize track
  • DryShips Inc. And Oceanfreight Inc. Announce Merger Agreement
  • Danaos Corporation appoints Evangelos Chatzis as Chief Financial Officer
  • Costamare Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results
  • TEN follows the downward trend

    • Week 29 - 2011
  • Heated scenes on Piraeus waterfront as ships divert
  • No-one bids for Greek container facility
  • Piraeus achieves select environmental standard
  • Mitropoulos speaks out on piracy
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum launches physical supply ops in Panama
  • Star Bulk intends to offer and sell 16,500,000 common shares
  • Into these Volatile Markets Goes Star Bulk
  • Economou v Cosco
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited Declares Quarterly Dividend $0.15 per Share

    • Week 28 - 2011
  • The Richest Greeks in Europe – Greek Rich List 2011/12
  • Shipping magnate John Coustas: Getting Rich in Greece
  • Safe Bulkers to buy up to 10 ships next year
  • Nautilus Marine Acquisition Corp. Announces Pricing of $48,000,000 Initial Public Offering
  • Target Marine looks to Hong Kong listing
  • Shell takes Angelicoussis VLGC for at least $700,000 per month
  • HSH Nordbank battles Omega
  • List of Omega Navigation’s unsecured creditors is led by V.Ships
  • Marrying the Bankers’ Greatest Nightmare with the Advisors’ Dream – Omega Navigation Files Chapter 11
  • Navios adds two product tankers
  • Cruise re-think as passenger ship bodies bury their differences
  • Insight: Greek shipyards need building up
  • Chengxi Shipyards in… Greece

    • Week 27 - 2011
  • Greek ship buys down dramatically
  • Thenamaris heads new Greek LNG charge
  • Megacore is no more
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises and Certain Subsidiaries File for Reorganization Relief Under Chapter 11
  • Star Bulk moves to new executive offices and appoints Mr Kleopas as Chief Operating Officer?
  • Libra Group Announces Internship Program with Greek America Foundation
  • Cruise firms react to new legal framework
  • 'Greek owners already contribute enough'
  • Seafarers pressure Paboukis over Euro 1.3bn penson shortfall
  • ELPE merger with Petrola
  • Maersk expects rates to return to healthier levels during second half of 2011

    • Week 26 - 2011
  • Ordering lull over as Greeks commit $3bn to new projects
  • Owners place orders to profit from LNG demand
  • Daewoo and Hyundai clinch LNG carrier orders from Angelicoussis
  • Lion Shipbrokers sets up shop in Piraeus
  • ESS expansion continues with a new office in Athens, Greece
  • Greek Shipowner: First to Order G-Type Engine
  • Cargill Reveals the Name of the World's Largest Kite-Powered Vessel
  • Wärtsilä signs Dynamic Maintenance Planning contract for six LNG carriers operated by Ceres LNG Services Ltd
  • Kaminco introduces the FIRST and ONLY Fiscally & Globally Certified Marine Bunker Measurement Solution
  • Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum: Cruise Growth Potential and Investment Opportunities for Greece, Eastern Med and Black Sea

    • Week 25 - 2011
  • Akti Miaouli - People & Places
  • Greek tonnage rises
  • Greece tops order tally with $1.7bn investment
  • 12 Greeks in the Lloyd's List Shipping Top 100
  • China Development Bank Interested In Greek Shipping Bank
  • China steps up lending to Greek owners
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Ranked “The Second Best Performing Shipping Company for the Year 2010” by Marine Money International
  • DryShips Announces Exercise of Option to Construct 7th Generation UDW Drillship

    • Week 24 - 2011
  • What Greece can learn from shipping
  • Top 15 Greek owners (tonnage)
  • Trading places: Greeks are spreading their bets
  • Young people showing increasing interest in a career at sea
  • Diamantis Pateras sets up LPG outfit with DVB Bank
  • Diana Containerships Inc. Announces the Delivery of the Panamax Container Vessel, m/v Maersk Madrid
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces the Acquisition of a Containership by its Joint Venture, Euromar LLC.
  • Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Announces Acquisition of Two MR2 Product Tankers With Employment
  • Shipping Industry Summit Steers Into the Blue
  • Wide margin of Greek-Chinese business ties stressed in Greek-Chinese Business Forum in Athens
  • SHIP DESIGN: G L links with N T U A in search for smart aframax
  • Ariana Psomas*: Sigmaglide enhances fuel efficiency while reducing ghg emissions
  • A list of Greece's new cabinet announced on Friday, June 17

    • Week 23 - 2011
  • 60 largest ownerships control over 90% of the Greek fleet
  • Greeks slow pace of orders in first five months
  • Adelfia bides times on SPP bulker option
  • Akis is Back - Blank Check Equity Raise
  • Noka Shipping banned from U.S. waters for five years
  • China, Greece hold forum to boost business ties
  • Piraeus chief attacks privatisation
  • In Greek Port, Storm Brews Over Chinese-Run Labor
  • Europe and Asia to work together on fighting piracy
  • 29th General Assembly of HELMEPA Members
  • Lloyd’s Register supports Athens 2011 Special Olympics
  • Sea Tourism Congress to be held June 21st-22nd, Athens
  • ABS Seminar "LNG & LPG Carriers- Updates for the Maritime Industry", Athens - 21 June 2011

    • Week 22 - 2011
  • Greek boost for Korean builders
  • Veniamis: Outlook and prospects for shipping remain uncertain
  • Greece’s beacon of hope is all at sea
  • Greek Shipping and the Economy
  • Union of Greek Shipowners, UGS Annual Report 2010-2011
  • Tsirigakis launches new investment vehicle
  • Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers Greek Branch «Orderbook Havoc in a marginal Market.Scrap or Trade? »
  • The Exhibition 'Let's Change Habits... not the Climate' on the island of Psara

    • Week 21 - 2011
  • Greece: Industry comments underline diffeneces with the admin
  • Greece to sell port stakes
  • Greece: can’t afford Santorini salvage
  • Greek operator mulls new order
  • Costamare profit pips analysts’ forecasts
  • Maran Tanker Management Further Leads In Sustainable Shipping
  • IMO's MSC issues guidelines on private security guards

    • Week 20 - 2011
  • Fewer But Larger Ships For Greek Ship-Owners
  • Greek owners shift bets
  • ‘Tanker moguls’ flock to Intertanko annual event
  • Germans quit submarine contract at Hellenic Shipyards
  • Capesize owners urged to consider scrapping
  • Box Ships Inc. Takes delivery of its fourth and fifth containership
  • GL software for German, Greek and Dutch companies
  • Technology Outlook 2020 launched in Greece
  • Shipowners can bind cargo owners to arbitration in salvage agreements
  • 3rd Annual SIAM Conference 2011: Cost Efficiency, New Trends & Their Impact

    • Week 19 - 2011
  • Gratsos urges owners to insist on ‘more profitable’ fuel-efficient ships
  • Ferrymen slam "Dead Letter" pay agreement
  • Newbuilding bug infects Technomar
  • NewLead scuttles bond plan
  • Angelicoussis switches more VLCCs to LNGCs
  • The Bahamas Maritime Authority looking to establish full office in Greece
  • A lighthouse of knowledge in Piraeus

    • Week 18 - 2011
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Merger may prompt exit from spot market for Crude Carriers fleet
  • Young chem-tanker fleet bides time
  • Posidonia moves
  • Jim Walsh passed away on 16/Apr/11
  • Ferry fares to become cheaper
  • 3rd Maritime Security & Anti-Piracy Conference, 22-23 June 2011, Athens-Greece

    • Week 17 - 2011
  • Shipowners invest $2 billion in new vessels
  • New Ships - Greek orders
  • Greek veteran on suezmax tack
  • BG agrees first $175m contract for Deep Sea Metro drillship
  • Top Ships Inc. announces new charters for M/T Ionian Wave and M/V Cyclades
  • DryShips Announces Signing of Restructuring of $1.1 Billion Facility and Exercise of 2 Options to Construct UDW Drillships by Ocean Rig UDW Inc.
  • Piraeus' role undisclosed as Cosco Pacific doubles profit
  • Shipowners awaiting UK banking reform decision
  • Election of members of the Governing Council of the Union of Greece Marinas

    • Week 16 - 2011
  • Greek owners emerge as chief players in rush for newbuildings
  • Tankers, bulkers and box ships are all in the newbuilding mix
  • Opinions split on spin-off offerings
  • Ferry operators look to cover lost ground
  • Aegean goes for GL fleet management software
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Announces Expansion Plans in Panama
  • Amarcon and Technava Start Collaboration in Greek and Cypriot market
  • PPA: Presentation to the Association of Institutional Investors

    • Week 15 - 2011
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Greek Shipowners Union on piracy
  • Greek pair in first-ever box orders
  • Box Ships prices IPO below the range at $12, sells more shares
  • Maersk Sells Three Ships to Diana for Leaseback
  • Frangou loses FFA fight
  • OneWay to NY, Please – Part II
  • Aegean Bunkering decides for GL fleet management software
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Closing of its Public Offering of Common Stock
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces Proposed Private Offering of $120 million Senior Secured Bonds Due 2016
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc. Announces Entering Into an Amendment of the Maturity Date of Its Current Debt Facilities
  • Record year for cruising in Rhodes
  • Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum 21-22 June 2011, Athens, Greece

    • Week 14 - 2011
  • Greek orders will continue, but ships will be different
  • Radical renewal grips Cosmoship
  • Danaos Corporation Adds Largest Vessels Using New Facility
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. announces filing of IPO Registration by its wholly-owned subsidiary Box Ships Inc.
  • Navios Maritime Partners L.P. Announces Public Offering of 4,000,000 Common Units
  • Petrofin Bank Research: Key Developments and Growth in Greek Ship-Finance, April 2011
  • Flurry of finance for listed companies
  • Somali pirates free Greek oil tanker
  • Azerbaijan and Greece sign contract on cooperation in sea transportation
  • Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum - Athens, 21-22 June 2011
  • IMO - The race begins

    • Week 13 - 2011
  • Minister on shipbuilding fund
  • Greeks hold steady in changing times
  • Athens, Summit: Building for the Future, to be April 6, 2011
  • Ouhua wins box ship pair
  • China's Ex - Im leads stable of lenders in Danaos re-financing exercise
  • GenMar receives olive branch
  • INTERVIEW-Dry bulk ship glut to ease amid record scrap-Navios
  • Greek tanker operator implements trim optimisation
  • DNV: Dedicated energy efficiency group established in Piraeus
  • Piraeus Union for Maritime Arbitration new Board of Directors April 2011
  • Plotting the piracy counter-strike

    • Week 12 - 2011
  • Caution rules as Greek and Chinese refrain from ordering
  • Greece Targets Cruise Ship Companies for Port Infrastructure
  • Deputy Minister of Culture & Tourism Asks London’s Greeks for Support
  • Long-term 'non-doms' hit by latest U K budget
  • Greek ferry operator NEL looks to buy Turkish peer
  • Thenamaris and Evalend join Greek dash for boxships
  • TEN orders two – sells one
  • Paragon swaps bulkers for box ships
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces Participation in Scorpio's Handymax Tanker Pool

    • Week 11 - 2011
  • Fewer ships flying the Greek flag
  • Greek owned fleet grows while share slips
  • Anomeritis sees Piraeus cruising to higher profits
  • Piraeus Port Authority: Financial Reports For The Full Year Of 2010
  • Marinakis to enter rigs with two new jack-ups
  • DryShips bulker splits in two
  • Facilitating business links with Greece
  • Rothman Institute, Fairleigh Dickinson, Madison, hosts Angeliki Frangou, Navios Maritime CEO
  • Mcquilling Partners Group Announces Establishment Of Mcquilling (Hellas) Limited

    • Week 10 - 2011
  • Greek-flag oceangoing bulk carrier fleet is top quality
  • Ship owners avoid second hand ship purchases on increased market concern
  • Piraeus broking outfits to merge
  • China reportedly doubles Greek fund
  • Should shipping be Greece’s meal ticket?
  • Greek Tanker Crew Receives Award From USCG & Sunoco Inc. For Rescue
  • Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum, 21-22 June 2011 Athens, Greece
  • The Discreet Enigma of George Economou: A Greek Magnate Unveils His Unique Art Collection in Athens

    • Week 09 - 2011
  • Ministerial decree backs experience to boost home flag
  • Cosco-Piraeus tension threatens Greek park
  • End of an era for Epirotiki
  • Vardinoyannis expands with another tanker for Avin fleet

    • Week 08 - 2011
  • Research and Markets: Greece Shipping Report Q1 2011
  • Shipping revenue rebounds as home-flag remains steady
  • Shipping dominant in China talks
  • Chinese ship funding may reach $10 bln\
  • Tsakos tipped as latest Greek to order
  • Mitropoulos and Round Table maintain anti-piracy pressure
  • DnB NOR, NordLB, UniCredit Will Increase Shipping-Finance Deals
  • Top Greek ports official quits in row

    • Week 07 - 2011
  • Greece - Shipping revenues up 13 pct in 2010; another bad tourism year
  • Greek Maritime Affairs minister leaving for China on Saturday
  • Greek shipowner wants four tankers from Brodosplit
  • London Greeks reiterate backing for Imo managed fuel levy
  • Ship management: Investors balk at ‘insider manager’ deals
  • Values on verge of a big plunge
  • Cost cuts help Piraeus return to profit
  • NewLead charters out LR1s
  • Athens Shipbuilding Conference - 6 April 2011, Ledra Marriott
  • Athens Seminar - Ship to Ship Transfer Operations - 3rd March 2011, Piraeus Marine Club

    • Week 06 - 2011
  • Pirates hijack Greek oil tanker off Oman
  • England Mandates Greek Ship Owners to Relocate
  • In a year of vigiliance Greek shipping remains on course
  • A small fleet with designs on the world
  • Greek Tiger Lines set to make direct call in Subic
  • NEL Lines Joins Forces with Turkish Company
  • GenMar concludes tanker sales
  • Emissions trading plan is ‘burden on shipping’

    • Week 05 - 2011
  • Greeks will stand or fall by the wisdom of investment
  • Pateras makes a relaxed return
  • Star Bulk Announces Spyros Capralos to Succeed Akis Tsirigakis as CEO and President
  • Overreach hits Georgiopoulos empire
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.: Preliminary Results for Fourth Quarter 2010
  • New Harbour Corps aims to change role and end collusion
  • Eurobulk Ltd Managed Container Carrier Tiger Bridge Repairs Completed On Schedule
  • Greek Fourlis to build 100M leva retail centre in Sofia

    • Week 04 - 2011
  • Appeal court decision seen as major boost for Piraeus
  • Greek shipping magnate Vassilis Constantakopoulos dies
  • CMRE in landmark loan
  • Greek ship-owners miss China hand
  • New ships may hit freight rates
  • Owners fighting for finance
  • Almi clinches bank finance for first half of mega-order
  • Navios Maritime Partners L.P. Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2010
  • EU regulators block merger of Greece's two biggest airlines

    • Week 03 - 2011
  • Age old problem of manning thought to be behind Anangel move
  • Shipping contraction seen
  • Hellenic P&I club opens for ships up to 25,000 gt
  • Greece predicts cruise boom

    • Week 02 - 2011
  • Greek Merchant Fleet Remains Largest in World
  • Piraeus records boost in vehicle traffic
  • Izmir-Thessaloniki cruise route
  • Shipping call for a steady government hand on the tiller
  • PM to meet Greek Shipowners Union management on Thursday
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Announces Quarterly Dividend payable February 1, 2011
  • Lomar snaps up three Hellespont chem tankers
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Time Charter Contract for m/v Melite
  • Frangos settles epic Haji-Ioannou ‘gifts’ feud
  • DryShips’ tanker purchase draws fire
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Pricing of $350 Million 8 1/8% Senior Notes Due 2019
  • Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd. Announces Proposed Offering of $250 Million Senior Notes due 2019
  • Star Bulk Carriers Corp.- Two Capesize Newbuildings: Debt Finance Agreed, Star Epsilon: One Year Time Charter

    • Week 01 - 2011
  • Greek investors push all barriers in 2010 s&p market
  • New outfits born in Piraeus but 2011 will be more about fleet dynamics
  • A bumpy ride aheadt
  • EU gives Greece ultimatum on crews
  • All Europeans can skipper Greek ships, court ruling says
  • Minoan Lines...
  • 2011 finds Greece mostly without 'spectre' of cabotage
  • Greece considers housing illegal immigrants on ships
  • Greek Cyprus to license offshore oil, gas exploration

    • Week 52 - 2010
  • Greece-China shipping sector cooperation expanding
  • Chinese banks eye piece of shipping pie
  • Latsis Group Acquires The Majority Stake Of Hellenic Petroleum
  • Investors wary of DryShips tanker plan
  • Newlead to raise $115m
  • Stealthgas Inc. Announces: New Charter Arrangements, Financing of LPG new buildings, Departure of CFO Andrew Simmons
  • Minoan pulls out of Hellennic Seaways sale
  • Jeppesen aids Greek ECDIS training

    • Week 51 - 2010
  • Greek owners display diverse views on 2011
  • DryShips unveils tanker ambitions with 12-ship order
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Buyback of $131.3 Million Mandatorily Convertible Preferred Stock
  • Refinery shipment for Delta Maritime
  • Owners mull finance options

    • Week 50 - 2010
  • PwC survey on shipping crew : The number of available Greek officers is decreasing
  • Gratsos: Politics rather than understanding dictate devisions
  • Competition on the up in newbuilding P&I market
  • Three-ship buy marks Pateras' comeback
  • Arch Cru: Spearpoint launches legal action against Greek shipping firm
  • DryShips Prices
  • Industry giants join global taskforce
  • Glittering awards night underlines Greek shipping’s international scope
  • Learning respect from the children
  • Greek carrier agrees fleet-wide VSAT installation
  • Louis named passenger line of the year in Greece

    • Week 49 - 2010
  • Akti Miaouli / People and Places
  • Operators face funding tests
  • Mixed fortunes seem set to dominate dry markets into 2011
  • Dynacom eyes up Zacchello ships
  • Bespoke finance for shipping professionals
  • Golden Seas successfully towed to Dutch Harbor
  • Ms. Angeliki Frangou Named Connecticut Maritime Association 2011 Commodore
  • FreeSeas Appoints George Kalogeropoulos to its Board of Directors
  • New ballast system passes first test
  • Intertanko heads for Athens Tanker Seminar - 10 & 11 May 2011
  • European Conference on Shipping & Ports 2011 - Chios, Greece
  • 13th Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum - 12 October 2010

    • Week 48 - 2010
  • Hellenic Shipyards to end the civilian shipbuilding activities for 15 years
  • Seamen ordered to return to work
  • Bridge builder
  • Piraeus posts $120m third quarter results
  • RINA backs strong fleet to help rescue the Greek economy
  • Diana Shipping Cruises on Buy Rating
  • Target bides its time on US IPO
  • Cargo Equipment Experts adds to Greek coverage
  • Arab-Greek ties under spotlight

    • Week 47 - 2010
  • Greece at top table in flag state performance rating
  • Second hand ships purchases from Hellenic ship owners have risen by 50% since September
  • All change for Trustoil operations
  • Neptune expects record year for car traffic
  • TEN defends follow-on
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Delivery of Capesize New Building Vessel
  • Seanergy Maritime Announces Resignation of Two Directors
  • Bunkerworld Conference 2011, Athens | May 2011

    • Week 46 - 2010
  • Greeks pour $6.4bn into newbuild contracts in 10 months
  • Dalnave makes first newbuild move with two kamsarmaxes
  • Paragon CEO sees new S&P openings
  • TOP Ships moves into the black
  • Euroseas Reports Encouraging Results for Latest Periods
  • Goldenport Holdings Inc., CEO Statement:
  • Best Relative Performance in the Marine Industry Detected in Shares of Dryships, Diana, Genco, Excell and Eagle
  • Greece: Motor Oil Sees Flat 2010 Sales About 9.5 mln Tonnes
  • Potential for new generation of nuclear powered commercial tankers
  • Greek reward for BofA Merrill shipping star
  • Azerbaijan, Greece agree on draft agreement on sea transport

    • Week 45 - 2010
  • Anomeritis calls tender for sale and removal of GA Ferries fleet
  • Sea cruise passenger fees to boost state revenues
  • IPO window shutting
  • Asset play name of the game
  • Safe Bulkers eyes early newbuilding slots
  • Greek shipping group Goldenport eyes container ship acquisitions
  • Globus Maritime Delisting Update and Trading Update for the Period Ended September 30,2010
  • Panos G. Moraitis: Piracy nowadays and how to get assistance.
  • 7th Annual Greek Shipping Awards and Gala Dinner

    • Week 44 - 2010
  • Greece’s dry bulk dominance faces test
  • Maria Tsakos laid to rest on Chios island
  • Swift action need to stave-off bankruptcy in ferry sector
  • Attica Holdings: Board To Propose A 24.3 MLN Euro Capital Increase
  • Costamare limps into listing
  • Frangou and Ambrosov Join UK P&I Club Board
  • Excel Maritime Announces Management Change in Operations
  • Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Announces Adrian Wooldridge as Chief Commercial Officer
  • Digital Ship Athens Conference: December 1-2, 2010
  • Lloyd’s Register’s Greek subsidiary, Hellenic Lloyd’s S.A, to enter into co-operation agreement with Hellenic Registry of Shipping

    • Week 43 - 2010
  • Piraeus and Cosco join forces for hub
  • Globus drops AIM; Costamare hits the road; Top to split
  • TEN raises $100m as rumours grow of China deal
  • Norton Rose on hand for raft of Sino-Greek finance deals
  • The benefits of being both ‘a shipowner and investment banker’
  • Greek Natural Gas Developments: LNG, Prospective Expansion, and the New Joint Venture of Two Energy Giants

    • Week 42 - 2010
  • Shipping income jumps but still has someway to go to match 2008
  • Qatar hasn’t turned its back on Greece
  • Greece, Italy & Syria Collaborate on Power Plant
  • Costamare files for IPO
  • Anbros Maritime switches out dry tonnage
  • Omega sees a drop in charter revenues
  • Star Bulk collects from TMT
  • TOP SHIPS Inc. Announces Corporate Developments
  • The benefits of experience
  • Diana Shipping Inc. announces time charter contract with Cargill International S.A
  • Tsavliris Salvage Group: “SEMPER PARATUS”

    • Week 41 - 2010
  • Shipping seen as ‘spearhead’ of Greek economic recovery
  • Marine Money Greece – the Athens report: In Greece, Shipping Rules!
  • Passenger shipping sector is looking for answers
  • Technomar splashes out $52m on five more ships
  • Seanergy sale in prospect
  • Lloyd's List: Greek elite compete for award glory

    • Week 40 - 2010
  • To Greece - With Love from China
  • Evaluating the Chinese offer
  • Agreements between China and Greece threaten the lead of South Korean builders
  • Greece Seeks India's Cooperation In Shipping
  • Greek-led resentment brews over RightShip’s market ‘might’
  • Metrostar deal pressures GenMar
  • 'Prestige' judgement upsets ICS/ISF
  • Mitropoulos sees increasing role in shipping for women
  • Greece's Port Thessaloniki Targets Bulgarian Companies

    • Week 39 - 2010
  • Greeks get used to life in the public eye
  • Greek owners eye containership market
  • Greece Shipping Report Q4 2010 - New Market Report Published
  • Greece hopes Wen visit will boost China investment
  • Significant Changes in Chinese and Greek Ship Finance
  • China to support ship purchases by Greece: Wen
  • ECHR decision to clear Spain in Mangouras claim is slammed
  • Frangou seeks more junk
  • Agreement for Hellenic Shipyards signed with Thyssen Krupp Marine, Abu Dhabi Mar

    • Week 38 - 2010
  • Greek Shipping revenues continue to show receovery
  • Greek shipping ministry saga continues
  • PM addresses Economic Club in New York
  • Thessaloniki targets cruise and logistics
  • Chartworld rejoins box-ship sector
  • Navios Maritime Selects Triple Point Software for Freight Risk Management
  • Thomas Miller strengthens Greece operations

    • Week 37 - 2010
  • Greek owners vent fury over new shipping ministry
  • Greek conflict restored too
  • Government withdraws Hellenic Registry's renewal bid
  • Greece Closes Shipyard Sale Deal, Orders With ThyssenKrupp
  • Hellenic yard’s future looking brighter
  • Navios closes VLCC acquisitions
  • Varouxakis ‘eyes more’
  • Cosco, OLP to team up for bid?
  • Piraeus Port Authority unveils tender for construction of 5-star hotel
  • Greek Freight Trucks Cause Chaos In Further Strike Action

    • Week 36 - 2010
  • Good news for Greek shipowners
  • Developing Greek suezmax fleet among youngest
  • Greek foray into box market is no mere fad
  • Rethymnis & Kulukundis makes pledge to sail on
  • ThyssenKrupp shipyards deal hits last-minute snag
  • Clean-up Then to Market - DryShips Cuts ATM
  • Top Ships’ cruising along
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Takes Delivery of Bunkering Tanker Newbuilding

    • Week 35 - 2010
  • Government moving towards radical ovcerhaul of port structure
  • Hellenic Register left in limbo
  • ‘Boxship buys on the way’
  • Economou adds to Suezmax orderbook
  • Shell opts for Crude Carriers' Suezmaxes
  • Salamis lines RoRo service from Israel to call at Lavrion port near Piraeus
  • Piraeus Port Authority: Financial Reports For The First Half 2010

    • Week 34 - 2010
  • Greek vote sweeps away cabotage barrier
  • Veteran Greek owner dies
  • Mamidakis group hit by $23m suit from engineer
  • TOP Ships Inc. announces preliminary agreement with DVB Bank
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. to acquire all remaining minority stakes in its BET and MCS subsidiaries achieving full ownership of its 20 ship fleet
  • Spearpoint limits losses on Arch Cru shipping investment

    • Week 33 - 2010
  • A summer of sand, sea and... supramaxes
  • Greek shipping earnings up 28.6%
  • The ferry players on borrowed time
  • “Out damned spot! Out I say!” - The Evolution of the Spot Market

    • Week 32 - 2010
  • Greek shipowners snap up a fifth of used vessels
  • Public players accelerate the S&P drive
  • Slowdown signs - Second hand vessel sales retreat to year lows during July
  • Back in shape after bumpy ride
  • Economou to take 10% stake in Danaos
  • Capital Product Partners L.P. Announces Pricing of 5,500,000 Common Units

    • Week 31 - 2010
  • Greek copycat orders seen
  • ABS exhonerated in 'Prestige' case
  • More Greek players join rush to order kamsarmaxes
  • Top Ships Reports Second Quarter And First Half 2010 Financial Results
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Reports Profits For Second Quarter 2010
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises Announces Capital Injection by Founder and CEO
  • Danaos Corporation Announces Bank Restructuring, New Debt Financing and Sale of $200 Million of New Common Stock
  • Piraeus pleases the eye

    • Week 30 - 2010
  • Diversity of growing Greek orderbook is eye-catching
  • Owners blame ore pricing switch
  • Polembros orders four very large bulkers
  • No Georgiopoulos deal
  • TEN buys four - sells one
  • Navios Navy Adds Battleships
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Acquisition of One Newbuild Panamax-Class Drybulk Vessel
  • Globus Maritime Ltd Announces Reverse Split Effective July 29, 2010

    • Week 29 - 2010
  • Draft bill lifting cabotage tabled
  • Greek owners stick to orders despite dry bulk slump
  • Traditional lending is back
  • Restis group completes '$100m offshore opportunity'
  • Navios Maritime Acquisition to acquire seven VLCCs
  • CSAV continues charter-in spree
  • Execution in the Face of a Fed Fire Storm
  • Cyprus to become major oil trading hub

    • Week 28 - 2010
  • Floated proposals on shipping legislation not entirely sunk
  • Greece cruise liberalisation marks new era
  • Greece Shipping Report Q3 2010 (Business Monitor International)
  • HHI wins new Dynacom order
  • Metrostar pays over the odds
  • Omega hit by falling TCEs
  • Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Announces Delivery of Two LR1 Product Tankers
  • Starting plans for 8th Digital Ship Athens / AMMITEC general meeting

    • Week 27 - 2010
  • Greece relaxes cabotage rules for cruiseships
  • Greeks surge in S&P buys
  • Led by Georgiopoulos, Greeks return to S&P ring big time
  • Greek cheque books shut
  • Hellespont bolsters Hamburg shipmanagement activities
  • Angelicoussis Receives Honorary Doctorate from Webb
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises Reports Fourth Quarter 2009 and First Quarter 2010 Results
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation: Final delivery of eight-ship series DNA-aframaxes
  • Chemical tanker hijacked
  • Ship Management Corp. to Pay $4 Million Penalty for Concealing Deliberate Pollution
  • 2010 "Niki" Award Recipient, Efthimios Mitropoulos

    • Week 26 - 2010
  • Study finds unions and costs are crippling Perama shiprepair zone
  • Shipping confidence continues to improve
  • Newbuild frenzy at $1bn per week
  • Ship-scrapping process continues
  • Sale prices defy softening
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. ranked "The Best Performing Shipping Company for the Year 2009" by Marine Money Intl
  • Adriatic counts the cost after month-long blockade ends
  • Fairsky Shipping & Trading S.A. Selects Seagull Training System
  • Aegean Bunkering receives ISO 14001 certificate
  • Thenamaris signs with SpecTec

    • Week 25 - 2010
  • Greece reassigns shipping portfolio
  • Chinese dragon swoops down to Greece’s rescue
  • Katseli raises possibility of Shanghai listings
  • Seamen defy ruling with strike
  • Greece is renewing its 20,000 DWT vessels more as the age has fallen to 12.36 years in 2010
  • 46 New Orders. Greeks in top gear.
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Subsidiary Agrees to Acquire Containerships
  • Technomar pays $125m for five Offen ships
  • Thenamaris vessels begin AMOS roll-out
  • Goldenport Holdings Inc - Proposed Placing and Open Offer to raise US$35m
  • Globus Maritime to acquire a 2010 built Kamsarmax Carrier
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces $148 Million Acquisition of Five Vessels

    • Week 24 - 2010
  • Greeks Poised for Flight Over Tax Change
  • Greek owners start to regroup
  • Greece and China play the game
  • Beijing's Greek deal a wake-up call for EU
  • Aquavita makes ownership move
  • Italian ships still stuck in Corinth
  • Cabotage battleground moves to Corinth from Piraeus
  • ABN/Fortis, International network strengthened by new representative office in Athens
  • Kelvin Hughes beefs up Greek presence
  • Yet another successful WISTA party

    • Week 23 - 2010
  • Has the time come to tax shipowners?
  • Veniamis rejects talk of Greek shipping tax
  • 54 Greek-Controlled Fleets Top 1M DWT
  • Voice of the London Greeks
  • Greek economy kept afloat by shipping trade
  • Posidonia: Business as Usual
  • Posidonia seals deals for Greek shipping companies
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Announces Quarterly Dividends

    • Week 22 - 2010
  • Posidonia to underline Greek shipping's muscle
  • Boom over — it’s time for a comeback
  • Greek interests spread far and wide
  • Gregory Callimanopulos: the Hellenic lion
  • Seanergy Maritime acquires 51% stake in Maritime Capital Shipping & Expansion to 20 Dry Bulk Vessels
  • Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp. Appoint Brigitte Noury and Anna Kalathakis to its BoD
  • Lloyd's Register Hellenic Advisory Committee meeting held in Piraeus this week
  • Michalis Pagonis recognise for 60 years with the Tsavliris Salvage Group
  • Supreme Court rules on issue of international arbitration and ship arrests

    • Week 21 - 2010
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Why the Koreans have come to Greece in search of shipbuilding contracts
  • Greeks continue to be active
  • Genmar could launch follow-on offering to fund Metrostar buys
  • Flame chasing Primera principals
  • Chemical and product tankers - will demand outstrip supply?
  • Cabotage bill watered down
  • NOT GUILTY!! Chief Engineer Acquitted in Texas 'Magic Pipe' Pollution Trial
  • Internaftiki announces exciting new location in the heart of Piraeus

    • Week 20 - 2010
  • Message from the President of The Union of Greek Shipowners, Theodore Veniamis
  • The New Council of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee
  • Greece: Retaking the top spot
  • Cosco to make Greece its 'gateway' to Europe
  • Debt crisis hits Greek port hard
  • In search of new avenues to plug the ship finance void
  • Akti Miaouli People & Places
  • Greek union calls off Posidonia gala reception
  • Danaos Corporation Adds Two More Newly Built Vessels to its Fleet
  • Star Bulk Carriers Corp. Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter Ended March 31, 2010
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Offshore Plans Cancelled, Although Tanker Investments Should Continue
  • Hellenic Petroleum First Quarter 2010 Financial Results

    • Week 19 - 2010
  • Greek owners head to Rongsheng on tanker spree
  • Restis tanker venture takes first of six aframaxes
  • Crude swells tanker fleet to five in wake of IPO
  • FreeSeas Announces Charter Agreements on Six of Its Handysize Vessels at Rates Reflecting Strong Market Conditions
  • Greek fund targets dry bulk sector
  • Greece moves forward with tender for intermodal hub near Piraeus Port
  • Impressive Chinese display at Greece’s Posidonia Shipping Exhibition
  • Major Greek-Turkish business forum
  • Strike at Piraeus port blocks cruise ships with 5,000 passengers

    • Week 18 - 2010
  • Greece, Qatar agree on LNG
  • Brussels' cloud pushes Euro 750m Piraeus logistics hub
  • Greek orders surge
  • Biggest shipbuilder wins €120m Greek contract
  • Lomar snaps up fourLPG carriers for $16m
  • From the Bosphorus: Straight - Time for a boundary deal in the Aegean

    • Week 17 - 2010
  • Greek Maritime Officer Acquitted in Texas ‘Magic Pipe’ Pollution Trial
  • Strike shuts down Greek ports
  • Posidonia 2010 boosts Local Economy
  • Alafouzos revealed as buyer of six aframaxes
  • Logothetis' Libra Group adds gas to expanding fleet
  • Samonas Brothers contract kamsarmaxes at STX
  • NewLead bounces back
  • Public players seize control of S&P
  • Transas secures prestigious order for ECDIS supply for Cardiff Marine Inc.
  • P&P Marine Consultants supervises successful launch of newbuilding vessel of Avin International
  • Seamen block Piraeus largest port

    • Week 16 - 2010
  • Gov't poised to lift cabotage
  • Greek PM Papandreou outlines actions to boost Greek tourism
  • Shipping lifts Greece’s confidence through ship-owners’ increased spending
  • Samsung wins $660m deal from Greek interests
  • Safe Bulkers orders two kamsarmaxes from China
  • Asians set to take the lead at Posidonia 2010
  • Andriaki to install VSAT
  • Cardiff fleet of 97 goes paperless
  • 22/04/2010: Vessels' Inspections in the Region of Tokyo MoU in 2009
  • Union of Greek Shipowners launches Educational Project in Conjunction with Posidonia 2010

    • Week 15 - 2010
  • Greece picks head of shipping
  • More uncertainty as shipping's admin is set to again shift
  • TEN Tops the Charts - 17 years of profits!
  • Remi behind nine resales to Navios
  • Globus eyes US listing as Greek trio lose faith in London valuations
  • Star Bulk expanding fleet ; Current fleet is contracted for 92% of 2010
  • Greece faces EU court action over illegal aid to shipyards
  • Shiprepair: Does the industry have a bright future or is survival the name of the game?
  • Costas Lyboussakis - The success story of a self made tug owner
  • New tax regime for international maritime transport companies receives EU approval
  • Shipping Investment & Asset Management Forum, University of Piraeus, 22.04.2010
  • Lloyd's List 7th Greek Shipping & Ship Finance Conference 2010

    • Week 14 - 2010
  • Akti Miaouli / Marketplace
  • Greece owns one seventh of the world's fleet in terms of deadweight tonnage
  • Migration of Asian finance bolsters Greek owners
  • Attica feels heat over Korea order
  • Navios to enter tanker sector
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces Dropdown of Six Vessels and Ship Management Company
  • Hellenic Mediterranean Panel elects Turkish vice chairman
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Shares Attractively Valued With Bunkering Demand Strengthening Considerably

    • Week 13 - 2010
  • Will containerships stack up for Greek owners?
  • Passengfer ship companies find the going tough
  • Vardinoyannis group sells off sixth vessel in as many months
  • Capesize for Carras
  • Ship delivery delay may top 40%
  • Mixed IPO results
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Files 2009 Annual Report
  • Excel Maritime Appoints New Chief Operating Officer and New Chief Financial Officer
  • Danaos Corp. - 4Q Earnings In-Line; Financing Shortfall Remains Biggest Issue
  • Crude Carriers Corp. Announces Delivery of its Second Vessel M/T “Miltiadis M II” and Employment of M/T “Alexander The Great”

    • Week 12 - 2010
  • Costamare ready to hunt bargains
  • OceanFreight in VLOC order spree
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces Entrance into Joint Venture
  • Andriaki to install VSAT
  • DNV is launching a new organisation
  • Commission clears special tax regime for international maritime transport companies in Cyprus
  • Back in stock
  • Alma IPO woes put damper on other hopefuls
  • Key Developments and Growth in Greek Ship-Finance / Petrofin Bank Research© End 2009

    • Week 11 - 2010
  • Greek tranker owners raise a number of operational concerns
  • HHI confirms Molaris order cancellations
  • Auditors flag issue with Molaris IPO
  • Eagle eyes more market upside
  • The Little Company That Could!
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Announces the Termination of the Standby Equity Distribution Agreement
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Reports Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009
  • ABS Vetting & Tanker Inspection: Athens 15 – 16 April 2010

    • Week 10 - 2010
  • Alma Maritime Limited Commences Initial Public Offering
  • Two New Shippers Come to Market (BALT, CRU)
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. to transfer listing to NYSE
  • Greek owners eyeing bulker acquisitions
  • Greek outfit quietly rejigs bulker fleet
  • Top Ships Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results
  • Greece Seminar Highlights Operational and Design Considerations for Low Sulfur Fuel

    • Week 09 - 2010
  • Investment plan for Piraeus at centre of Attica development
  • Minister reassures Greek shipping over tax changes
  • Greece Approves Sale of Shipyard to Abu Dhabi MAR Group
  • Younger owners and ships dominate sector
  • Greek finance path widens
  • Maran Tankers Management Inc. selects Seagull - 05.03.2010
  • Greek shipper CEO says immune from local woes
  • Latest Proposed US Iranian Sanction Legislation: What Does It Really Mean?

    • Week 08 - 2010
  • Athens must try to stem shipowner cash exodus
  • Piraeus Firm in Posidonia Debut
  • Equity Appetite Remains Strong
  • Greek banks face squeeze
  • New markets boost Aegean
  • NewLead in transition mode
  • Star Bulk Carriers - Weaker 4Q Results on Higher In-Charter Expenses
  • Tsakos and Schoeller in ship management JV
  • Mixed results for listed Georgiopoulos-chaired trio
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces Agreements for Purchase of Two Kamsarmaxes and Sale of Product Tanker

    • Week 07 - 2010
  • Greeks bearing debts
  • Greek Market Report / S&P Commentary
  • Marinakis to test 'choppy' IPO market
  • Despite the Rumors of It’s Being Stillborn….
  • Is easyCruise on Life Support?
  • Turkey to help crisis-hit Greece, Minister says

    • Week 06 - 2010
  • Greeks order four Kamsarmaxes
  • Another 'big' first for the Angelicoussis group
  • Almi adds to suezmax spree with deal for VLCC duo
  • Almi waits to finance ship orders
  • Veniamis calls for reinstatement of shipping ministry
  • Dahlman Rose: Safe Bulkers -4Q Earnings Stronger than Expected; Recent Newbuild Orders Highlight Strong Capital Position

    • Week 05 - 2010
  • Safety concern over Greek nationals
  • Greek owned fleet shrinks
  • 5 Year low prices atract companies
  • Capital Product Partners reports lower earnings
  • Molaris snaps up aframax quartet
  • OSG promotes from within
  • Players 'pretty happy' with the way the P&I system works
  • Cyprus House awaits EU approval of new shipping tax
  • Capital Link - Greek Shipping Forum - 23 February 2010

    • Week 04 - 2010
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • CARGO SHIP BEACHED NEAR ALGECIRAS
  • 'Shrewd' Greeks bulk up on ships
  • Merger mistrust
  • First MLC certificate awarded to Thenamaris
  • Public players hold the cards
  • Posidonia 2010 is only 6 months away!
  • Green Star Reduces Fuel Consumption on Greek Maritime Ship

    • Week 03 - 2010
  • Greek trio unite to cancel bulkers
  • Delivery drive Neptune gets second carrier
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Announces Closing of Container Vessel Sale
  • Quiet success
  • Shipping revenues sank in 2009
  • Win/win opportunities for Greek owners and banks
  • Upgrading of Piraeus becomes part of national strategic plan
  • Maria Damanaki - Commissioner designate impresses MEPs
  • Says Philippine Embassy in Greece: Stranded Filipino sailors to get back pay
  • Shipping confidence levels stable
  • Hellenic- / Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce - Shipping Conference 9 February 2010
  • Capital Link - Greek Shipping Forum - 23 February 2010

    • Week 02 - 2010
  • Greek Owners look to investors to ignite buying spree
  • Both sides of coin visible in Greek market
  • Greek owners using bold tactics to keep prices low
  • Piraeus plans a new shipping forum
  • European Companies Research Maritime Carbon Capture

    • Week 01 - 2010
  • New tanker concern formed by Omega and Glencore
  • Greece dominates ordering activity at end of 2009
  • Tomorrow's tankers at today's prices
  • Laimos Launches Joint Venture With American Big Investor
  • Genmar moves tankers to Anglo-Eastern
  • UAE's Abu Dhabi Mar selected as preferred bidder for Hellenic
  • Higher pay for Filipino seamen in Greek ship
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire Verbeke Bunkering N.V.
  • P&I Conference to be held at the Piraeus Marine Club - 28 January 2010

    • Week 53 - 2009
  • China tops Greece in secondhand sales
  • Nine killed by bulker blaze
  • No return of Aegean Wind sailors’ bodies
  • Plane dispatched to retrieve bodies of seamen
  • Demolition men
  • Navios Bulker hijacked way out in Indian Ocean
  • American Fund Invests in The ´´Greeks´´ Of Wall Street

    • Week 52 - 2009
  • 9 sailors killed after ship fire off Venezuela
  • Almi Tankers Gets The Deal Of The Year
  • Omega reveals order switch
  • NewLead Holdings Ltd. Begins Trading on the NASDAQ Under the Symbol 'NEWL'
  • Eurotankers has bulker trio inked in China
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Agreement for Early Termination of Existing Charter in Exchange for Compensation
  • Prosecutor asks that ferry owner Agoudimos be arrested
  • Good outlook for Greek private banks
  • Shipowners regret Copenhagen's 'lack of direction' for shipping and warn of risks

    • Week 51 - 2009
  • Greek shipowners go bargain hunting
  • Status of Greek orders at yards remains vague
  • Tsakos warns Greece it risks losing more shipping cash
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Increases Total Credit Facilities to $420 Million
  • Goldenport Holdings Inc.: New Loan Facility for Vessel Acquisitions
  • OSG and Aker kiss and make up
  • Safe Bulkers buys two ships
  • Akti Miaouli People

    • Week 50 - 2009
  • Akti Miaouli / From the Market Place
  • Greek owners control 18% of the world's tanker fleet
  • Katseli fuels buzz on Chinese moves
  • The cat and the dragon
  • MV Ariana fianally truly free from Somalia Pirates
  • Greek Shipping Awards honour key players
  • Greece cancels tender for Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft
  • Athens, - Seanet signs agreement with European Seaways
  • Mytilineos Says It Has No Interest In Hellenic Shipyards
  • Navios Maritime Partners L.P. Announces Appointment of Mr. Serafeim Kriempardis to Board Of Directors
  • Polembros Shipping LTD. Sentenced for Crimes Related to Pollution from Cargo Ship Traveling to New Orleans

    • Week 49 - 2009
  • Greek banks arrest Mediterranean Maritime vessel
  • Logothetis splashes out $325m on 'acquisition opportunity'
  • Greeks make 2009 a year to remember for ship disposals
  • Globus Maritime Announces Agreement to Sell Handymax Dry Bulk Carriers
  • TEN Limited: Charter to generate at least $32 million in gross revenue
  • Katseli's contancts in NY
  • Private LNG On Its Way
  • PipelineManager to monitor Greece’s National Natural Gas System
  • Training and crewing: Gods and gulls keep crews informed
  • Italian – Greek shortsea

    • Week 48 - 2009
  • Katseli addresses IMO assembly
  • Katseli may tap into shipping capital with bond issue
  • Veniamis denies owners discuss backing of geovernment funds
  • Piraeus frustration bubbles over
  • Salvage justice
  • ThyssenKrupp Executive Says Bids For Hellenic Shipyards Due Dec 4
  • Motor Oil and Mytilineos team up in gas market
  • Piraeus Venture Capital Fund invests in Advent Technologies

    • Week 47 - 2009
  • Bulker confidence rises for 2010
  • After swallowing NewLead, Aries to launch growth as NewLead
  • Sanko sells Handy trio to Greece
  • Metrostar in victory over yard refunds
  • TEN joins SEAaT
  • ECDIS trains Ceres LNG

    • Week 46 - 2009
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli
  • Greek Shipowners Discuss Piracy off the Coast of Somalia at U.S. Department of State
  • Adriatic Lines launches new service
  • Painful fixture batters Aries
  • TOP warns on covenants in ‘dire’ market
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Diana Shipping (DSX) - Vessel Acquisitions Appear On Near-Term Horizon; Reiterate Buy
  • The professional salvor
  • Court rules strike at Greece's biggest port illegal
  • Euroseas, Safe Bulkers, Seanergy Maritime, Teekay Corporation and Tsakos Energy Navigation
  • Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards 2009 - 4 December 2009

    • Week 45 - 2009
  • Minister's maiden speech at Greek Shipping Summit
  • Greek Shipping Taxes Policy Will Continue
  • Greece won’t tax foreign shipping firms
  • Attitude problem
  • Shipowner cash to bail out Greece?
  • ThyssenKrupp to seek investors for Greek shipyards
  • Banks expect one in 10 shipping loans to go bad within next year
  • International companies turn to Varna because of Piraeus Port strike
  • Workers choice Emmanouil keen to return to Hellenic Shipyards
  • Ulysses claims success in cutting costs
  • Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards 2009 - 4 December 2009

    • Week 44 - 2009
  • Louka Katseli to give keynote speech at Greek Shipping Summit 3 November 2009
  • Shipowners To Question Crew Regime
  • Ministry of Finance To Crack Down On Offshores
  • Greeks look to Qatari LNG
  • Chinese buy up more ships in 2009 than the Greeks - Mr David Glass
  • Greek ships still rule the waves
  • First Greek P&I Club opens for business
  • Managing changes and taking advantage of new conditions
  • Push to link Vafias with Brave Bulk
  • New shipping partners for Ince and Co in Dubai and Piraeus
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Regains Compliance with NASDAQ Closing Bid Price Requirement
  • DryShips Inc. Reports Financial and Operating Results for 3Q Ended September 30, 2009
  • Hellenic Carriers Limited: Directorate Change
  • Long term charters help Capital weather the storm
  • US-listed owners buffeted by tax issues
  • Cyprus business teams short-listed for Stelios Philanthropic Foundation award
  • 7th Digital Ship Athens conference, 11-12 November 2009
  • Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards 2009 - 4 December 2009

    • Week 43 - 2009
  • Hellenic's fate uncertain as deal on subs inches forward
  • Hellespont expands into Singapore
  • MSC ends Piraeus contract
  • Ship Operator Pleads Guilty for Concealing Pollution from Oil Tanker
  • What about pride and recognition?
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Propose Private Offering of $375 Million Mortgage Notes Due 2017
  • Navios junk bond grows
  • “PFIC” – Call Your Accountant Immediately!
  • A sounder platform for Aegean oil production
  • Hellenic Petroleum: Announcement
  • Greek Shipping Summit 2009 - World Tanker Forum, 3 November 2009
  • 7th Digital Ship Athens conference, 11-12 November 2009
  • Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards 2009 - 4 December 2009

    • Week 42 - 2009
  • ThyssenKrupp ready to quit Hellenic Shipyards October 31, 2009
  • Greeks respond to manning changes
  • Katseli meets union leaders
  • Port strike weighs on new minister
  • Private equity’s set to soar as bank drought continues
  • Grand Union Inc. Aquires Control of Aries Maritime Transport Limited
  • Watch The Greeks!!
  • Kassian accuses US over 'neglect'
  • Globus Maritime Announces Agreement to Sell Handymax Dry Bulk Carrier
  • FreeSeas Announces Appointment of Alexandros Mylonas as Chief Financial Officer
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Announces Bet Signing of Supplemental Agreement to its Loan
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Announces New Charter
  • “BDI” andWe Don’t Mean the Index
  • Greek Shipping Summit 2009 - World Tanker Forum, 3 November 2009
  • 7th Digital Ship Athens conference, 11-12 November 2009

    • Week 41 - 2009
  • Mobilisation of market forces
  • CV of new Greek Minister of Economics, Competitiveness and Shipping, Louka Katseli
  • Greek shipping ministry to be abolished
  • Greek tragedy?
  • Marine Money's Full House in Athens
  • Newbuild clashes loom as owners call for flexibility
  • Time to cooperate as there will be more pain before gain
  • FreeSeas Announces Charter Agreements on Six of Its Handysize Vessels
  • Safe Bulkers Announces that its Manager Receives 2009 Cyprus Shipping Industry Award
  • Transport ministry to investigate ship collision in Aegean Sea

    • Week 40 - 2009
  • Greek Ship Finance Forum - 8 October 2009
  • Morgan Joseph Appoints Xen A. Galinas a Managing Director in Investment Banking Group
  • Greek Cabotage: Key Players Take Positions
  • Islanders connected
  • Safety success for HELMEPA
  • China's COSCO takes over container business at Greek port
  • Piraeus strikers keep Cosco standing at the gates
  • Athenian takes first of four
  • Danaos makes it 42
  • Oceanstar pounces on Tufton ship
  • Polembros Shipping LTD. Pleads Guilty to Crimes Related to Pollution from Cargo Ship Traveling to New Orleans
  • Mixed reviews for Rotterdam Rules

    • Week 39 - 2009
  • Creditors seize eight units in GA Ferries fleet
  • China Development Bank sets sail for Greece
  • Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Terminates Greek Submarine Order
  • Greece Launches Year-Long Campaign for 2010 WISTA Conference
  • WISTA Hellas New Board of Directors, September 2009
  • Aries thrown a lifeline
  • Tanker bulker swaps
  • Danaos rejects Zim charter hire cuts
  • Grand Union delays dry and wet ship deliveries
  • MOH-Shell Deal: The Next Day
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Danaos (DAC) - Discloses Counterparty Dispute on Six Vessels; Maintain Hold.
  • Saxo Bank opens Athens office in response to increasingly sophisticated Greek trading market

    • Week 38 - 2009
  • Modern Greek shipping is weathering economic crisis
  • NBG on shipping sector
  • Chinese owners threaten Greeks’ top spot
  • Greeks order six Samho bulkers
  • Petrobas Deal With Tsakos
  • Diana sees banks thaw on lending
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Announces Agreement With Grandunion Inc. Providing for Change of Control and Management
  • Seanergy Maritime Plans To Double Shares Outstanding
  • Euronav Ship Management implement Electronic-TOTS
  • Women's International Shipping & Trading Association elects Greek shipping executive as president

    • Week 37 - 2009
  • Piraeus faces new industrial chaos in run-up to national poll
  • Don’t let standards drop - Mitropoulos
  • Phrixos B Papachristidis Appointed Chairman of Executive Board of Hellespont
  • FMG settles another shipping dispute
  • Pay-up time
  • this year’s Jefferies Conference - Less Buzz, but…………More Business
  • Greece. Safe Bulkers, Inc. reports Q2 and fist half year 09 results
  • Aegean commences 2nd phase of drilling at Epsilon offshore Greece

    • Week 36 - 2009
  • Greeks said to have condeded top position to Japanese.
  • Seas remain choppy for Greek shippers
  • Shipping will track Greek voting
  • Rickmers-Linie calls Thessaloniki for special project cargo
  • Greek owner in dry-bulk launch
  • Shipping Fund FIG Gets Its First Deal
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces Two Year Time Charter Agreement
  • Top Ships to present at the Rodman & Renshaw annual global investment conference on 10 Sep 2009
  • Stricken tanker moved from Suez Canal entrance
  • Dalnave fined $1m for Myron N offences

    • Week 35 - 2009
  • Piraeus perks up
  • Hellespont looses ceo
  • Top player stirs split emotions
  • Aries Maritime CEO comments to second quarter 2009 results
  • Attica slips into loss in wake of financial crisis
  • ANEK Lines: H1 2009 Results
  • Impairment charge hits Globus's Q2 profit
  • UPDATE 1-Motor Oil H1 net falls 3.8 pct, trounces estimates
  • Hellenic Petroleum 2Q09 results – better than expected refining
  • Greek Shipping Summit - World Tanker forum, 3 November 2009

    • Week 34 - 2009
  • Survey Invitation_Port Devolution; The Piraeus Port Experience
  • Largest GL-classed Tanker Named: VLCC "Athenian Victory"
  • Two Chief Engineers From Oil Tanker 'Georgios M' Indicted for Environmental Crimes
  • Spare a buck?
  • Greek fund buying Cido panamaxes
  • Old Ways Work Best
  • Navios swoops for two Alba capesize newbuilds
  • StealthGas Inc. CEO, CFO comments on 2nd Quarter and six months 2009 results
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: FreeSeas - 2Q Results Hampered by Off-Hire Time, but Acquisition of 10th Vessel to Boost Earnings
  • TOP Ships Inc. announces amended director nominations and short postponement of its 2009 AGM

    • Week 33 - 2009
  • Vima, Greece: New data about cocaine haul case
  • Filipino seamen on hijacked ship appeal to government
  • Slowdown signs - Newly built oil tankers price drop about 40pct
  • The loan arrangers
  • Paragon Shipping Inc.: our strongest quarterly operating performance to date
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.: Second Quarter Sales Volumes Increase 21.6%
  • Dryships announces agreement with West LB on waiver terms for US$71 million of debt
  • TOP Ships Inc. reports second quarter and first half 2009 financial results
  • Star Bulk Carriers Corp. Reports Financial Results for Q2 and First Half 2009
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Completes Acquisition of Controlling Interest in Bulk Energy Transport (Holdings) Limited and Expands Controlled Fleet to 11 Vessels

    • Week 32 - 2009
  • Hellenic Seaways Acquires easyCruise
  • Uncovering the old Port of Theodosius
  • Prinos oil production triples Aegean Energy S.A, announces
  • Minister inaugurates new port in central Greece
  • ABS: European survey headquarters moves from London to Greece
  • Left spinning by Trafigura
  • Owners turn to private equity
  • Aggelikousis Fleet Restructuring
  • New Eagle Bulk venture expected to soon start hunting tonnage
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Delivery of Three Newbuild Capesize Vessels
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Diana Shipping (DSX) - 2Q Results Slightly Below Forecasts; Remains In No Hurry To Acquire Dry Bulk Assets; Reiterate Buy & $22
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation: 63rd Consecutive Profitable Quarter Since Inception
  • Lack of revenue hits Capital
  • TOP Ships Inc. announces delivery of its last newbuilding vessel, and waiver from RBS
  • Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. Reports Q2 2009 Results - Revenue increases 42% year-on-year
  • The annual Marine Money Greek ship finance forum is again shaping up as an important event

    • Week 31 - 2009
  • Remi newbuilding tankers up for resale
  • Oceanstar clears out more MPPs
  • Frangou 'working on' more deals for Navios
  • FreeSeas Announces Extension and Re-Pricing of FREEW Warrants
  • Danaos Corporation Reports Q2 and Half Year Results for the Period Ended June 30, 2009
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Amends Previously Announced Letter of Intent
  • Capital Product Partners L.P. Announces Q2 Financial Results and Amendment of Certain Loan Terms
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Reports Financial Results for 2Q and Six Months Ended June 30, 2009
  • Montenegro rejects Greek bid for stake in EPCG power monopoly, opts for Italys A2A
  • Restis To Invest In Montenegro Resort
  • OW grows in Greece -
  • Strike causes problems on Corfu-Igoumenitsa ferry route
  • Greece-Russia agree to extend shipping cooperation

    • Week 30 - 2009
  • 20 rescued from sinking ship
  • Cruiseship Passengers in Greece with swine flu symptoms
  • Cruise protectionism costs Greece Euro 500m annually
  • Increase for cruise tourism in Piraeus
  • Chamber of Shipping rejects Kyoto Protocol concept
  • Michael Bodouroglou: There is worse to come
  • New $700m fund to target bulkers
  • Tsakos encouraged by charter
  • Seanergy takes rate hit for handysize duo
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Provides Fleet Update
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces Delivery of its 17th Vessel

    • Week 29 - 2009
  • Akti Miaouli / From the Marketplace
  • DEI with Golden Energy of Greece to bid for stake in Montenegro’s EPCG power monopoly
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Receives $145 Million Commitment Letter
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Announces Strategic Acquisition - Enters into Agreement to Acquire Bulk Energy Transport (Holdings) Limited
  • TEN announces secured charter earnings
  • Sungdong bags Tsakos suezmax pair
  • Technomar sells another three units
  • Eagle Bulk: Supramax specialist
  • Latvijas Kugnieciba rejects accusations made by Atholl Greece
  • Chief Engineer and Second Engineer Plead Guilty to Concealing Vessel Pollution
  • Greece's Largest Oil Refiner, Hellenic Petroleum, Selects Triple Point Software for Oil Trading, Risk Management and Logistics
  • Piracy attacks double

    • Week 28 - 2009
  • Greeks being priced out of top spot by Chinese operators
  • Greek Fleets of more than 20 ships
  • 24 Greek Companies among the 100 Top Shipping Companies for 2008
  • Marine Money International: Performance Rankings - 100 Top Shipping Companies for 2008
  • Petrofin Research© – Greek shipping companies © - June 2009
  • Petrofin Research© – Greek Fleet Stats © July 2009
  • Ship Finance : Who’s Lending?
  • Suitors emerge in Aries contest
  • Tough times for Top Ships
  • Spyros M. Polemis elected to the Stevens Institute of Technology Board of Trustees
  • 2010 to be 'The Year of the Seafarer'
  • Sea Diamond probe points finger at company and crew
  • More than 19,000 jobs lost in Greek tourism sector
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Modern Capesize Vessel That Will Commence Five Year Time Charter
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. held its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders
  • Top Ships announces redelivery of its last leased vessel and filing of its annual report on form 20-F
  • Mastermind of Panagopoulos kidnap will testify on Monday

    • Week 27 - 2009
  • Impact of downturn yet to be reflected in Greek company makeup
  • Shipping resilient to imported crisis
  • Gang behind ship-owner kidnapping
  • Raising their game
  • Clutch of Greek owners lead charge to scoop up vessels at cheap levels
  • Greeks concerned over criminalisation
  • Bank loan backs 'environmentally friendly' maritime sector
  • T. Aggelopoulos Sells Ships
  • TOP SHIPS Inc Announces Termination Of Four Leases
  • Diana Shipping's President: Why We Win

    • Week 26 - 2009
  • Wife of Greek shipowner freed after ransom paid: report
  • Anxiety Is High at NYC Shipping Conference
  • Sceptics doubt finance choices
  • Greek selling outpaces buying
  • Full impact of Eastwind bankruptcy yet to become clear
  • Climate change on Greek cabotage?
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Signs Letter of Intent for Acquisition of Control by Grandunion
  • M/V Hellenic Sky time chartered at us$18,000 per day for 13-16 months
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Navios Maritime (NM) - Acquisition of Four Capesize newbuilds; Reiterate Buy and $8 Target
  • Greek behind MR Tanker orders at STX
  • Attica Group order the building of two new vessels for the Greek Market
  • Drewry Report on State of Shipbuilding
  • Sea NG to transport CNG to Crete

    • Week 25 - 2009
  • Who owns what in Greece's ASE-listed domestic ferry sector
  • Greek council against GHG emissions tax
  • Piraeus Port Authority: Decisions Of The Regular General Meeting Of Shareholders
  • Greeks take dry-buying spotlight
  • US court remands Spain's $1bn Prestige claim
  • Sea Diamond. 155 cubic meters of fuel...
  • Euroseas selects renewal targets
  • Hyundai Samho agrees to later deliveries for Danaos
  • Understanding the capital markets and shipping / Star Bulk Carriers – why the underdog?
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces the Sale of Panamax Class Vessel
  • Dryships Announces it has Signed Waiver Agreement with Dnb Nor for $86 Million of Debt
  • M/V Hellenic Sea Time Chartered at US$16,500 per for 4-6 months
  • Excel Maritime Enters into Time Charter Agreement for the M/V Barbara at $23,000 Per day
  • Choice of Law Clauses, Enforcement of US Maritime Liens and Necessaries Suppliers
  • Investment opportunities in Greece's tourism and energy sectors presented in Cyprus

    • Week 24 - 2009
  • Largest owners are out-running growing Greek fleet
  • Greeks playing careful game
  • Greece heads for ‘severe recession’
  • US Prestige ruling reversed
  • BIMCO 2009 General Meeting in Athens: Shipping in Transition
  • Hellenic results outline threats
  • Hellenic shipping industry the most affected by pirates
  • Euroseas boosts fleet with latest panamax buy
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Common Stock Purchase Program by its Controlling Stockholder
  • Elin Marine lubricants to the UAE and to the wider Persian Gulf region
  • Citigroup Analyst Kartsonas Joins Shipping Hedge Fund

    • Week 23 - 2009
  • Greek Market Report / S&P Commentary
  • Waiting for the wind to change
  • Laskaridis leads charge to scrap
  • Sale of vessel with a book profit of US$ 11.1 million
  • Omega Navigation bullish on future prospects
  • TOP Ships Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results
  • DryShips pays hefty cancellation penalty
  • Kiriacoulis Mediterranean Cruises Shipping: Announcement
  • ABS Fleet Breaks 150m gt Mark

    • Week 22 - 2009
  • Owners set to act to ensure uniformity of regulations
  • Piraeus shipbroker Nicolas J Cotzias passed away in Athens, aged 80.
  • Atlas Maritime pays tribute to family matriarchs
  • ANEK Lines: Q1 2009 Financial Results
  • FreeSeas Inc. Announces 2009 First Quarter Financial Results
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Star Bulk Carriers (SBLK)
  • Motor Oil Hellas: Decisions Of The 2009 Annual Ordinary General Meeting
  • Athens: BIMCO General Meeting 2009, 1-4 June
  • BIMCO appoint new Chief Business Development Officer
  • Clarkson Analysis: The Shipping Market – Enjoying a Bit of Paragliding?

    • Week 21 - 2009
  • Akti Miaouli / People and Places
  • Posidonia set to return
  • Poor navigation led to ship grounding
  • Sunken Greek cruise ship to be cleared of trapped fuel
  • Slater bemoans 'reckless owners' and 'totally overwhelming' orderbook
  • Pistiolis family in new venture
  • Navios claims advantage despite revenue tumble
  • Hellenic Carriers Limited AGM Results
  • OceanFreight Inc. Announces the Termination of the Standby Equity Purchase Agreement Program
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. post 1Q 2009 Earnings Release
  • Star Bulk Announces Four New Time Charter Agreements and Commences In-House Vessel Management
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Announces Board Appointment

    • Week 20 - 2009
  • Pateras passes
  • Greek ship owners commemorate Wenchuan earthquake victims
  • Stranded ship sets sail after pay dispute resolved
  • P&I world opens up at Athens marine risk forum
  • ANEK Acquires Control of Hellenic Seaways For 125 Million Euro
  • Aegean Agreement to Sell Ro-Ro Tankers
  • Aegean revenues and net income take a hit
  • DryShips scores another waiver
  • Goldenport fixed contracts worth $176m for 2009, '10, '11
  • Seagull expand training commitment with Eletson Corporation.

    • Week 19 - 2009
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Vote on new probe for Pavlidis
  • Papachristidis Jr rises to the challenge
  • Greek Professor Grammenos conferred title of CBE in London ceremony
  • EU slaps 17-month block on Hellenic Register
  • Tanker innovations showcased
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Announces 1Q 2009 Conference Call & Webcast
  • Diana Also Taps the Equity Markets. But Why?
  • GenMar’s encouraging results
  • Globus Maritime Announces Agreement to Sell Panamax Dry Bulk Carrier
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Declares Quarterly Dividend of $ 0.15 per Share
  • Navios Maritime Partners L.P. announces pricing of follow-on offering
  • Morgan Stanley fund to invest in shipping
  • Spoiling the fun in funds

    • Week 18 - 2009
  • Greeks sell ships with a view to buy
  • Piraeus welcomes return of 'Lost' Clients
  • Anangel gets new bulkers
  • Danaos Re-jiggers
  • DryShips turns corner with fresh equity
  • George Weltman goes to Delphi to find answers
  • University honours IMO secretary-general
  • Onassis Prize awarded

    • Week 17 - 2009
  • Provopoulos believes new ships will see Greeks through
  • Brussels to shake up shipmanagement taxation
  • Pavlidis' Case Enters Final Stretch
  • Bankers, Excel agree financing
  • Aegean adds to West African bunkering fleet
  • Capital Product Partners L.P. Announces Cash Distribution
  • Euronav: First Quater Results 2009 and new Financing
  • 'City animal' intends to remain busy
  • ThurayaIP and ThurayaMarine launch in Greek maritime sector
  • Borchard Line to resume direct calls at Piraeus
  • Zim returns Greek port to weekly line

    • Week 16 - 2009
  • Agoudimos returns to the fray claiming facts have been 'twisted'
  • Somali pirates release Greek ship and 24-man crew
  • Pavlidis’s daughter questioned
  • Pavlidis’ Case First Phase Completed
  • Prestige legal backlash simmers
  • 5 Greek tanker companies on Tanker Operator's Top 30 List
  • Diana Shipping Inc. announces agreement to acquire owner of a capesize newbuilding vessel
  • Hellespont seeks partners to join new tanker pool
  • 'Red letter day'
  • Piraeus Port to freeze tariffs in h2 of 2009
  • Cyprus:Taxation of Ship Management Companies
  • Bimco Case Study Workshop - Athens, 22-24 April 2009
  • ABS Strengthens Global Engineering Organization

    • Week 15 - 2009
  • Manousis Testimony Concluded
  • Pavlidis’s bank accounts to be opened
  • Agoudimos rushed to hospital suffering pharmaceutical poisoning
  • Key Developments and Growth in Greek Ship-Finance
  • Restis, Iraq tie-up
  • Oceanaut shareholders approve dissolution
  • Highlights from Excel Maritime Carriers' (EXM) Q4 Conference Call
  • Deal means new pool for LR1 tankers
  • Hellenic Technical Committee of GL Meets in Athens - New Tanker Design Presented
  • SALTO access control solution installed on ANEK Lines Ferries

    • Week 14 - 2009
  • Greek vessel stops pirates
  • Akti Miaouli / Marketplace & People
  • Greece Scraps Thessaloniki Privatization
  • Greece, Brazil sign four cooperation accords
  • Niva Shipping Ltd announces new company creation in Dubai, UAE
  • Greek clan returns to bulk sector
  • Charter termination angers StealthGas
  • New LR1 product tanker pool
  • Marmaras denies tanker cancellation at Hyundai yards
  • Excel Maritime Credit Amendment Buoys Shipping Sector >EXM
  • Top Ships Reports Fourth Quarter And Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Results
  • Seanergy Maritime buys itself time
  • Transas supplies Hellenic Navy with Bridge Simulator
  • INFOCAD to Sell Metris Products in Middle East

    • Week 13 - 2009
  • Confiscated ships? Trust the Greeks
  • Blast near Piraeus was ‘settling of accounts’
  • Pirates Highjack Greek Ship
  • ThyssenKrupp to put Hellenic Shipyards up for sale on April 1st 2009
  • MIG denies negotiating Hellenic bid with French group
  • Attica Group - EBITDA at 47.7 m. and group Net Profil After Tax at euro 22.3 m.
  • Personal reasons prompted Molaris' departure from Excel
  • Lenders demand Excel action
  • FreeSeas Inc. Announces 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results
  • TOP’s newbuilding programme nears end
  • Dryships' $1bn Q4 loss
  • Paragon’s Banks Give It SomeWiggle Room
  • Merchant Marine minister visits London at invitation of Greek Shipping Cooperation Committee
  • Greece and the sea

    • Week 12 - 2009
  • Greek fleet still the world's largest, but make-up changes
  • Mangouras trial to go ahead
  • Greek shipping support for MIG
  • 3000 and counting
  • Greeks fret over shipyard clashes
  • Aegean expands in Greece
  • Hellenic Carriers wins loan waivers
  • Danaos seeks to delay deliveries
  • Excel Maritime (EXM) - Delays Earnings As Negotiations On Loan Waivers Carry On; Sell
  • TEN posts highest ever annual income

    • Week 11 - 2009
  • Greeks expand fleet but home flag suffers
  • Thyssen 'considering' selling Hellenic back to the state
  • COSCO Pacific granted operating rights at Greek port
  • Greek tanker stable for sale
  • Greek owner cancels two bulk carriers at Odense shipyard
  • Diana Shipping is the new darling of dry bulk
  • G. Bros Maritime installs new software
  • Ghanaian sailors on Greek ship earned US$11m in three years
  • Ghana: Tsakos Shipping Donates to Tema New Town
  • Danaos Corp (DAC) - Discloses Loan Covenant Violations, Suspends Dividend
  • OceanFreight Inc. Reports Financial Results for 4Q 2008 / appointed a new Vice President, Mr. Demetris Nenes

    • Week 10 - 2009
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Brussels to impose curbs on Hellenic Register
  • New jackets and lights from Lalizas
  • Report calls for bigger ports
  • Nomikos withdraws suit against Carbofer

    • Week 09 - 2009
  • Pirates Grab Greek Ship, but Two Navies Stop Other Pirate Attacks
  • Greece's leading role in the fight against piracy at sea
  • Greeks have place in future plans of top lender RBS
  • Abu Dhabi's IPIC, Greek shipping firm form JV
  • Molaris quits Excel Maritime
  • Polemis rebuffed
  • TOP SHIPS ANNOUNCES DELIVERY OF ITS SECOND NEWBUILDING VESSEL
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Aegean Marine (ANW) - Posts Stronger Than Expected 4Q Earnings Results; Raising Target to $22
  • DRYSHIPS ANNOUNCES IT HAS REACHED FINAL AGREEMENT WITH NORDEA BANK FOR A COVENANT WAIVER ON THE $800 MILLION PRIMELEAD FACILITY
  • OCEANAUT, INC. POSTPONES DATE FOR SPECIAL MEETING FOR SHAREHOLDER APPROVAL TO LIQUIDATE AND DISSOLVE

    • Week 08 - 2009
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Hellenic registered fleet posts third straight monthly increase in December
  • Safe Bulkers Names John Foteinos as Director & COO to Replace Nicolaos Hadjioannou
  • Lloyd's Register Educational Trust provides funds for maritime education to NTUA
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Announces New $300 Million Credit Facility
  • Excel set to get $5m out of Oceanaut
  • Pure Greek
  • Diana Shipping (DSX) - Reports 4Q Results; Remains Well-Positioned to Consolidate Dry Bulk Market
  • Eletson enters gas market
  • Marmaras axes capesize orders
  • TOP Ships announces delivery of its first newbuilding vessel
  • Tsavliris Salvage (International) Ltd v Grain Board of Iraq [2008] EWHC 612 (Comm)
  • Anti-trust authority slaps fines on Piraeus
  • Papandreou proposals on tourism
  • Govt finds profit in idle ships

    • Week 07 - 2009
  • Newsfront: Akti Miaouli
  • Deadly tanker blast finding
  • Hard landing for P&I?
  • Prudent Or Imprudent?
  • Safe Bulkers, reports Q4 and year 2008 results; Declares quarterly dividend
  • Samsun Logix Hellas facing claims over unpaid charter fees
  • Samsun collapses on Genco
  • Genco Shipping & Trading Limited Details Limited Exposure to Samsun Logix
  • Hellenic Carriers Limited: Fleet Deployment Update
  • Korea Line agrees lower rate with Hellenic Carriers
  • SHI exports its first ship for the new year
  • Gulf Oil Marine Ltd. and Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Enter Into Strategic Partnership
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc.: Quarterly Dividend, 4Q 2008 release date & conference call
  • Wighams Capital Partners and MPC Longberry join forces / particular focus on Greek clients
  • Bimco Case Study Workshop - Athens, 22-24 April 2009
  • Dryships Announces Preliminary Agreement With Nordea Bank for a Covenant Waiver on the $800 Million Primelead Facility
  • World shipping tonnage capacity hits 1.12 billion deadweight

    • Week 06 - 2009
  • Veniamis elected Greek shipowners president
  • Greek delivery tally set to fall
  • Cash buyers enjoy cherry-picking
  • Setting the course for shipping checks
  • Greek Shipowners Union on piracy
  • London Greek owners slam Mangouras appeal ruling
  • Sea Star to appeal against $4.7m fine
  • Ship officials plead guilty in pollution conspiracy
  • Goldenport Freebie
  • Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. Receives Waiver On Loan Covenant
  • Angeliki Frangou, Chairman and CEO of Navios Maritime Partners L.P. (NYSE: NMM) Discusses the Dry Bulk Sector and NMM

    • Week 05 - 2009
  • New reality for Greece
  • Performance under fire
  • Key shipper eyes half-price Greek vessels
  • Goldenport Holdings: Rescheduling of Vessel Deliveries at No Additional Cost
  • Genco moves to protect newbuilding programme
  • Navios Maritime Q4 net income rises
  • Star Bulk Carriers Corp.: FFA Transactions, Private Placement, Employment Update
  • What Do DryShips And The U.S. Government Have In Common?
  • Managing liquidity & financial challenges in a downturn

    • Week 04 - 2009
  • Shipping tycoon freed after wife pays £28m cash ransom
  • Karamanlis meets with Merchant Marine minister
  • Greeks ordered larger more expensive ships in 2008
  • RBS should worry Greek owners
  • The boom over, Greece weighs options
  • Reasons for cheer amidst the gloom
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: DryShips Takes Significant Action to Reduce Cash Outlays
  • Excel dumps Frangos supramax purchase
  • Mediterranean cruise line's unique itineraries
  • Second Circuit Court rejects criminal liability challenge
  • Piraeus Bureau Veritas-Upcoming February Seminars 2009
  • New York Shipping Conference 12 February 2009: “How Will Shipping Survive the Perfect Storm?”

    • Week 03 - 2009
  • Negotiations Enter Crucial Phase
  • Police fear for health of kidnapped Panagopulos
  • Mangouras court ruling could increase risk of politically influenced bail requirements
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli
  • Banks’ shipping exposure at $17 bln
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Acquires Double-Hull Bunkering Tanker
  • Hellenic Carriers Limited Fleet Deployment Update
  • Louis backs British plan to pump out Sea Diamond oil
  • Shipping company fined for polluting river Philadelphia Business Journal
  • Gaza-Bound Vessel Threatened by Israeli Warships
  • Karamanlis says not allow US arms to Israel via Greek ports
  • Liberty Ship Due to Arrive in Greece
  • Waterson Hicks and Ince & Co set sights on more Piraeus work
  • City Law School moves LLM modules to Greece

    • Week 02 - 2009
  • Excerpts from Fairplay's annual 2009 report
  • Greeks continue to lead the way in a muted s&p market
  • Stelios: We'll see the worst two years of our life
  • Banks are responsible for the current crisis, claims Vafias
  • Hellenic Register silent over ships off its books
  • Greeks on Forbes list of World Bilionaires
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network appointed exclusive bunkering company for new port in Morocco
  • Piraeus Marine Club will hold the 9th International P&I Conference on January 22, 2009

    • Week 01 - 2009
  • HC orders arrest of a Greek vessel
  • Greek tanker flees pirate attack
  • OLTH’s privatization under review
  • Kyriakou lines up £2bn for UK buys
  • Eagle flies nest
  • Genco capesize newbuilding chartered at $65,000/day
  • Euroseas Ltd. to Sell Panamax Drybulk Vessel and Renegotiation and Extension of Two Container Vessel Charters
  • TOP SHIPS Announces Termination of Intrest Rate Derivative Contract
  • Will Shipping Stay Afloat In 2009? (DRYS, GNK, TDW)
  • Slowdown signs - Global freight market near record low

    • Week 52 - 2008
  • HC orders arrest of a Greek vessel
  • Greek tanker flees pirate attack
  • OLTH’s privatization under review
  • Kyriakou lines up £2bn for UK buys
  • Eagle flies nest
  • Genco capesize newbuilding chartered at $65,000/day
  • Euroseas Ltd. to Sell Panamax Drybulk Vessel and Renegotiation and Extension of Two Container Vessel Charters
  • TOP SHIPS Announces Termination of Intrest Rate Derivative Contract
  • Will Shipping Stay Afloat In 2009? (DRYS, GNK, TDW)
  • Slowdown signs - Global freight market near record low

    • Week 51 - 2008
  • DryShips 'likely' to cancel $1.2bn Economou capesizes
  • FreeSeas Inc. Appoints Interim Chief Financial Officer
  • Aigaion must pay
  • Hutchison withdraws interest for Thessaloniki Port container terminal
  • Sea Diamond plan submitted
  • Ships remain in ports due to rough seas
  • New ideas for tanker safety
  • Wighams open office in Greece

    • Week 50 - 2008
  • Global crisis will transform shipping financing methods
  • Private Greeks well placed to prosper
  • Greek newbuilding orders at lowest quarterly level in eight years
  • Hellenic vessels turn to positive territory in October
  • Greece proposes Piraeus base for sea-border agency
  • Obituary – Loucas Haji-Ioannou - shipowner
  • GMR and ATB Become One
  • Greek shippers sue FMG for breach of contracts
  • Greece Takes Measures against Fuel Smuggling
  • Mitropoulos wins Greek Personality of the Year

    • Week 49 - 2008
  • Somali pirates release Greek ship CAPT. STEFANOS
  • Euroseas sells FFA contracts for 2009 and 2010
  • WISTA Forum presented "The Credit Crunch and its Impact on Greek Shipping"
  • Greece Freight Transport Report 2008 - by companiesandmarkets.com
  • Hanjin Heavy completes two ships in Subic facility
  • DRYS Cancels Underwater Panamax Acquisition; Nets Savings Even After Steep Fees
  • DryShips Cancels Acquisition of Four Carriers - What Does it Mean for the Stock?
  • Moody's changes rating outlook on four Greek banks to negative
  • 5th Annual Greek Shipping Awards & Gala Dinner
  • Piraeus Marine Club - Invites to Open House Christmas Party - 18 Dec. 2008

    • Week 48 - 2008
  • Greeks address credit crisis with wit and wisdom
  • Greek owners should have the financial ability to ride out the crisis
  • London Greeks slam eurocrats over scrapping “strategy”
  • Coral Sea master acquitted
  • Top ships strong but under pressure
  • China signs Greek port deal, vows more investment
  • Ports, OA debated in Parliament
  • Genmar to appeal magic pipe convictions
  • Greece Takes Measures against Fuel Smuggling
  • Statements of President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. K. Papoulias and President of the People’s Republic of China Mr. Hu Jintao following their meeting at the Presidential mansion
  • The Ship Management Conference - February 2009, Athens, Greece

    • Week 47 - 2008
  • Greek newbuilding cancellations near 50 in last weeks
  • Greek shipping hit by global financial crisis
  • Resurgence for the Greek flag
  • Focus on the sunny side
  • EIB to bankroll Greek port upgrades
  • Mitropoulos calls for action
  • Bulk carrier with ‘appalling’ crew living conditions seized in Liverpool
  • Caroussis chairs UK Club
  • TOP SHIPS Inc Reports Third Quarter and Nine-Month 2008 Financial Results
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc. Reports Third Quarter and Nine Months 2008 Results
  • Tsakos Shipping and Trading S.A. plans expansion of Seagull Training System and associated services in its fleet.
  • Wavefield vessel involved in Aegean Sea spat
  • 'Ionia' Challenge to Corporate Criminal Liability

    • Week 46 - 2008
  • Status of Greek class society receives major boost
  • Exporters ‘defenseless’ against strike
  • Pittas cuts payout
  • Goldenport warns of early deliveries
  • Solid tanker rates lift TEN earnings
  • Paragon Shipping reports profit in Q3
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. Announces Third Quarter and Nine Month 2008 Financial Results
  • Crisis ‘is an opportunity and test’

    • Week 45 - 2008
  • Papaligouras: Shipping will withstand the financial strains
  • Greek Shipping Summit: The great debate
  • Safe profits soar
  • FOCUS: Financial Crisis Seen Cutting Shipping Oversupply
  • Genco (GNK) Cancels 6-Ship Acquisition; Loses Deposit But Saves Nearly $6/share
  • Hellenic Carriers Limited withdraw from acquiring the M/V FURNESS TIMIKA
  • Magic pipe indictment
  • Union says ship workers owed pay
  • Superfast VII damaged in storm
  • Greek Training Forum Held in Athens
  • Digital Ship Athens 2008 - Theme: operational excellence in shipping

    • Week 44 - 2008
  • Exmar shelves joint venture plans with Prime Marine
  • Stena Bulk buys into premium Shipping Company
  • Exclusive following
  • Good news among the gloom as Genco and Genmar ride high
  • Capital Product Partners L.P. Announces Strong Third Quarter Financial Results
  • Danaos Corporation Declares Dividend of $0.465 per Share for the Third Quarter of 2008
  • Carrier fined $750,000 in 'magic pipe' dumping case
  • E.G.Arghyrakis & Co - small but they sure know how to fight” The Legal 500 (2008)
  • 2nd Ann. Greek Shipping Summit - 6 November 2008, Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens

    • Week 43 - 2008
  • London shipping community takes a hit in slowdown
  • Athex will have the welcome mat out when the crisis is over
  • Hellas: Shipping currency inflows increase
  • Ship owner fined $750,000 for dumping oil at sea
  • Star Bulk Announces that Nobu Su Resigns from the Position of Director
  • TOP Ships says no to Economou
  • Alba Maritime in newbuilding resale
  • Globus cuts price
  • Capital Product Partners L.P. Announces Cash Distribution
  • Navios Maritime Partners increases cash distribution by 10% to $0.385 per unit
  • Seanergy Announces Appointment of New Chief Financial Officer
  • Claims against Industrial Carriers could top $100m
  • Salvage: Why No State Immunity for the Iraqi Government?

    • Week 42 - 2008
  • A 'trained' shipping industry will emerge
  • Marine Money panel sit firmly on fence
  • Industrial Carriers heads to court owing $33m
  • Seanergy Commences Trading on the Nasdaq Global Market
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. to Expand Presence in the Caribbean
  • DryShips Capes controversy
  • OceanFreight Inc. Announces Mutual Termination of M/T Olinda Time Charter & Delivery of M/T Tigani
  • Star Bulk Announces Updated Employment Status of Star Beta
  • Islanders lose ferry service
  • COSCO Pacific to Operate Greek Port
  • Greek navy prioritises maritime patrol aircraft contest

    • Week 41 - 2008
  • Still some clouds over Cosco's Piraeus box agreement
  • Owners urge banks to be patient
  • Enormous Crowd Joins the 10th Annual Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum
  • Top talks still alive
  • Shipping must “retrench and downsize”, says Slater
  • ICS chairman: “Emission trading not inevitable”

    • Week 40 - 2008
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli
  • Deal could return Posidonia home
  • No more smooth sailing
  • Lukewarm reception for FFA scheme
  • Grimaldi launches mandatory bid for Minoan
  • Tsakos Shipping and Trading S.A. awarded the ISO14001:2004 by Lloyd's Register
  • Oceanaut, Inc. provides an update on Trust Account

    • Week 39 - 2008
  • Papaligouras has a busy introduction to shipping
  • Persian Gulf tanker rates may rise on improved demand
  • Bank Of Greece: Cut bad loans
  • Economic cooperation agreement signed between Greece and S. Korea
  • Shots fired at ship owner's car
  • Ship owner Restis sets up fund targeting digital services
  • Restis Group Invests In Nuclear Energy
  • George Makes His Move
  • Cosmoship fleet renewal gathers pace as bulker tally hits 10
  • Arcade Acquisition Corp. Enters Into Definitive Agreements to Purchase Ten Container Vessels for a Total Consideration of $262 Million
  • Danaos Corporation adds two new 4,253 TEU containerships to its fleet.
  • UPDATE 2-Excel CEO says credit crunch hurting shipping
  • Navios Maritime Acquisition Corporation Confirms Investment Policy
  • Peloponnesus worth a stop on any voyage near Greece

    • Week 38 - 2008
  • Greek shipping legend John M. Carras dies
  • Greek seamen turn hoses on pirates, foil attack off Somalia - Summary
  • Message by Papaligouras to Greek seamen
  • PM opens World Maritime event
  • Livanos to be Remembered at World Maritime Day Event
  • Germans and Greeks are scaling back dramatically.
  • Hamburg Greeks pledge to stay
  • Aries Maritime Q2 Earnings Rise On Vessel Sales - Update
  • GO Carriers quits AIM but not the capital markets
  • Marine Money reports on Jefferies 5th Annual Shipping, Logistics & Offshore Services Conference

    • Week 37 - 2008
  • Greece appoints new minister of Merchant Marine
  • Athens: 36 Speakers to present at biggest ship finance event of the year in southern Europe
  • Greek owners on edge as C&Heavy Industries faces dire straits
  • Greek Sale & Purchase by Newsfront
  • Ship agents losing more than 50% of earnings – IMU
  • Globus offloads
  • StealthGas branches into crude
  • Marine Money reports on Dahlman Rose’s 1st Annual Global Transportation Conference

    • Week 36 - 2008
  • Drop in coastal shipping
  • Dry to thrive
  • Spain picks new law firm in Prestige case
  • New highway nears completion
  • EU informal meeting on shipping and protection of sea environment
  • Hanjin completes second ship in Subic yard
  • Hellenic may lose EU support
  • Euroseas Limited
  • Hellenic Carriers Ltd - 2008 Interim Results and Dividend Announcement

    • Week 35 - 2008
  • Hellenic shipowners acquires 146 second hand vessels in 7 months
  • Greek Market Report / S&P Commentary
  • Oceanaut Takes Out Its Checkbook
  • GrandUnion drafts fleet deal with Tailwind
  • Grand Union firms up six-tanker order
  • Globus Maritime Reports Results for 2Q & Six Months Ended June 30, 2008
  • Goldenport Holdings - Interim Results for Six Months Ended 30 June 2008
  • Strikes hurt
  • Ceremony pays tribute to crew's heroism

    • Week 34 - 2008
  • Hellenic shipping H1 income reached EUR 9.4 billion
  • 52 New orders. VLCC again makes hedlines.
  • The Greeks and the Chinese - Doing business for aeons
  • Justice minister on Pavlidis case
  • Athens seeks EU ferry subsidies
  • Rift widens between Star Bulk and Su
  • Meandros signs up for suezmax at SungDong
  • Platts Tanker Economics - Athens, 20-21 October 2008

    • Week 33 - 2008
  • Services surge in Pireaus
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.: Second Quarter Sales Volumes Increase 55%
  • FreeSeas to Acquire Handysize Vessel; Increase Fleet to Nine Vessels
  • Safe Bulkers (SB) 2Q Results Ahead of Expectations
  • Star Bulk earnings up as Nobu Su share spat emerges
  • Top Ships (TOPS) Announces Departure of CFO

    • Week 32 - 2008
  • Government fears Pavlidis graft probe
  • ITF targets Greek
  • AWB charters Geraldton 'rip-off' ship
  • Hellenic Register not booted out just yet
  • GSCC expresses 'serious concerns' over rush to cut emissions
  • Duty to act
  • General Maritime and Arlington Tankers to combine
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. announces a new 23-months time charter at $63,000 average daily rate
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Tsakos Energy Navigation 2Q Results Surprise to the Upside on High Profit-Sharing
  • TOP Ships announces court approval of proposed settlement
  • Nikolaos Stratis: Leaving NFC
  • Athens: 2nd International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management, and Economics

    • Week 31 - 2008
  • Greece: Sharp drop in newbuilding activity does not tell full story
  • Ferry jolts blamed on poor ports
  • Qatari investors eye Greece’s Astakos port
  • Evergreen pulls out of 12,400 teu deal
  • Tanker buy to end Top terms
  • TEN mixes right blend
  • Top Ships reports second quarter and first half 2008 financial results
  • FreeSeas Inc. Reports Results for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2008
  • .......As does Capital
  • Dahlman Rose Research Comments: DSX, Marine Shipping Re-Cap
  • 10th Annual Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum

    • Week 30 - 2008
  • Eight dead in "perama" tragedy
  • Anger as Greek LPG carrier blast kills eight
  • ITF: Coral Sea verdict was fatally flawed
  • Greece: 3 hurt in ferry collision
  • HPH makes highest bid for Greek port rights
  • Shipping companies eye Libyan market
  • Livanos in capes deal with Mittal
  • zacks.com/commentary: Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.
  • Disillusioned GO Carriers ready to quit London's AIM
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Initiates Fixed Quarterly Dividend of $0.10 per Share
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. Appoints New Non-Executive Director
  • TOP Ships (TOPS) 2Q & First Half '08 CC Invitation
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Mr. Antonis Venieris, CEO of Veniers Group
  • Greek Property To Benefit From New Ferry Service
  • Kuehne + Nagel A.E. in Greece
  • Foster Wheeler Awarded Refinery Upgrading Contracts in Greece

    • Week 29 - 2008
  • Coral Sea master jailed
  • Stricken bulker assessed for pollution potential
  • Ferries in fight for survival
  • Ferry operators face threat of fines
  • Interview with Chairman and CEO Michael Bodouroglou, Bloomberg TV, June 26, 2008
  • Restis increases interest in blank cheque company Seanergy
  • DryShips Inc. Completes Acquisition of Ocean Rig ASA
  • Avin Int’l freight crude oil to CPC
  • BG said to have fixed GasLog duo
  • ‘Smelly’ water heads for Cyprus dam as cargo deemed unsuitable
  • Tanker manager casts doubt on lab results

    • Week 28 - 2008
  • Koreans gather in Greek orders worth over $1.2bn
  • Orders for new ships losing steam
  • Hanjin has 43 ship orders until 2013; 5 from Dioryx
  • Sizzling capesize-charter market brings in new faces
  • Greece: Maritime safety questioned
  • A Hellenic headache
  • Union of Greek Shipowners releases July activities update
  • Owner, Operator, and chief engineer of Greek ocean-going vessel Rio Gold indicted on environmental offenses
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Acquisition of a New Post-Panamax Drybulk Vessel and New Time Charter
  • Aries Maritime Announces Changes to Management Team and Board of Directors
  • Seanergy Maritime Announces New Record Date for Special Meeting of Shareholders to Approve Proposed Business Combination

    • Week 27 - 2008
  • Smaller outfits gaining strength
  • ThyssenKrupp may challenge EU over Greek shipyard aid
  • Greece to toughen rules after shipping accident
  • ELPE, Edison eye number 2 position in power market
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Takes Delivery of Bunkering Tanker Newbuilding
  • Aries Maritime Announces Completion of Review of Strategic Alternatives
  • Conference highlights Greece's prospects as sea cruise hub
  • First Class goes ahead with IPO
  • Greek Shipping Companies and their fleet size

    • Week 26 - 2008
  • Ocean-going prospects remain positive says National Bank
  • Shipping revenues up 8% in '08
  • Development of cruise tourism
  • New ships, with focus on passenger safety
  • Water tankers to begin journey from Greece today
  • Alexandria in handy debut
  • Tsakos Group is planning to build a bulker joint venture
  • Sri Lanka national carrier in joint venture with Greek shipping dynasty
  • Small Talk: A tale of the Greeks and the soya bean stalk
  • Sealion Shipping has placed an order three Multi-Purpose Vessels on behalf of Toisa Ltd
  • Transmed linked to VL rumour
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. acquie Two Ultra Handymax Vessels
  • Global boss leads £68m bid
  • TOP Ships announces sale of five suezmax vessels
  • “Salesman’s Opinion” Does Not Create Duty: JP Morgan Chase V Springwell Navigation Corp
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Mr. Bobby Mitropoulos of Weberseas S.A.

    • Week 25 - 2008
  • Akti Miaouli / People & Places
  • Toll to calculate ship emissions
  • Blank cheque deals return after no filings for May
  • Goldenport sells Samos vessel for $25m
  • Paragon Shipping reaches deal to acquire Supramax drybulk carrier
  • Dreamtech steals march on Strategic
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network names Spyros Gianniotis as Chief Financial Officer

    • Week 24 - 2008
  • Among faces launching 1,000 ships
  • Greeks look to blend traditional strengths with market gains
  • Surging finance costs squeeze smaller owners
  • Former banker brings ruthless approach
  • Newsfront's On and Off the Akti Miaouli
  • UGS head Nicos Efthymiou: Seeking Practical,Global Solutions
  • GSCC opposes CO2 Taxes
  • Cosco provisional tender winner
  • Shipowners want to lay issues on table
  • Angelicoussis in Goldman link-up
  • Aries Maritime appoints new CFO; Completes sale of 3 vessels
  • Top Ships reports first quarter 2008 financial results
  • Tsakos Energy announces time-charter extensions for two aframax tankers
  • "Surveyor" Summer 2008, devoted to the Greek Maritime Community

    • Week 23 - 2008
  • Chamber leads on shipping issues
  • PM inaugurates 'Posidonia' maritime exhibition
  • Dioryx Maritime’s first ship to be made in Subic
  • GasLog joins league of LNG owners
  • Posidonia 2008: Molaris linked to $800m tanker orders
  • Greece eager to lure London’s Hellenic Shipping Community
  • Greek Owners Turn to ABS for New Construction Class Services
  • KfW targets Greek owners
  • GL Contracts Jack Up Platform Thor with Hellenic Shipyards
  • Costamare ships use GL's CO2 Indexing
  • Newsfront's: Akti Miaouli / Market Place
  • ABS Funds Greek Research Program To Help Shipping ‘Go Green’

    • Week 22 - 2008
  • The official Posidonia 2008 programme:
  • More than 16,000 visitors expected to attend Posidonia
  • Greek Shipping: Then and now
  • The Greek rise and rise
  • Minister: Greek shipping industry a global leader
  • Voulgarakis, Kapralos Invites Shippers to Athens Bourse
  • Oil price increase characteristic of bubbles, says Soros
  • How to man 9,000 newbuildings in the coming years
  • Sakellis quits in fuel price row
  • Hellenic National Advisory Committee considers key shipping issues
  • Aegean Bulk Co Inc. gets the first Green Award Dry Bulk Certificate
  • Gard strengthens Greek team
  • EMMA's expertise aims to be engrained in Greek legal system
  • Spyros Vlassopoulos joins Hellespont's Piraeus-based chartering division
  • Panos C. Vlahos establish "Exantas Shipping Services Ltd."

    • Week 21 - 2008
  • Greek Shipping and the Economy
  • Greece: Commercial Shipping Policy
  • Union of Greek Shipowners: President's Address
  • Profile of The Union of Greek Shipowners
  • ICS and ISF meet in Athens, AGM press release
  • Innovative thinking needed in a mature ferry market
  • Dahlman Rose & Co: Excel Maritime - 1Q Results Solid
  • Excel has doubts over newbuilding deliveries
  • Seanergy gets Restis 6

    • Week 20 - 2008
  • Hellenic Shipping industry remains on top of the world
  • Polemis: “Don't take bonanza for granted”
  • Shipping mounts a country-wide recruitment drive
  • Greeks book handysizes worth $444m at Daesun
  • Zoullas says 40% of Asian yard deliveries at risk
  • Homegrown P&I Club Opens In Greece
  • My Big Fat Greek Shipper
  • Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces Filing of Registration Statement for Initial Public Offering
  • Samskip adds Greece to its pan-European multimodal network
  • Athens: World Shipping Congress
  • Major Greek unions strike to protest privatization

    • Week 19 - 2008
  • On and Off the Akti Miaouli
  • Coastal shipowners demand additional liberalization
  • Cosco and Hutchinson bid for Port of Piraeus
  • Athens clears way for elusive shipping IPOs
  • Argyropoulos heads back to Athens
  • New VLCC benchmark set
  • DryShips Sees Calmer Waters Ahead
  • Posidonia ‘biggest global maritime event' as 1,600 exhibitors from 80 countries set sail to Greece.

    • Week 18 - 2008
  • Greek fleet
  • Greeks back for SPP tankers
  • ASE moving closer to implementing listing rules
  • Fears grow over London's shipping status
  • Delta Tankers orders VLCCs for USD 156 million per unit
  • Genco Shipping - 1Q Earnings Beat Estimates; Raises Annual Dividend to $4/share
  • CRUISEinGREECE Conference
  • Greece, Russia ink deal on gas pipeline / Pact to boost local role as energy hub

    • Week 17 - 2008
  • Shipping industry contributes 3.4 billion euros to Hellenic economy
  • Greek Fleet Facts
  • Key Developments and Growth in Greek Ship-Finance
  • Restis sets up German-based bank
  • Danaos Corp: 1Q Results In-Line with Consensus; Secures $560M in New Debt Financing
  • Contracts signed for water import

    • Week 16 - 2008
  • Hellenic government to provide support to ship owners
  • Lending to Greeks reaches $67bn; 19% of the market
  • Excel gets green light for Quintana buy
  • Hellenic Carriers charters handymax for US$38,000 per day
  • Heidmar goes to Cardiff
  • Peter G. Goes Green

    • Week 15 - 2008
  • Shipping urged to become involved in EC policy-making
  • Union of Greek Shipowners to curb pollutant emissions
  • London’s Hellenic shipowners returning home
  • Professors' work honoured by Hellenic ship finance league
  • Mystery tanker buyer revealed
  • New supplier comes to Kali Limenes
  • Rina opens Greek centre
  • Transas completes sizeable deliveries to three Greek shipowner companies
  • Ceylon Shipping Corporation signs MOU with Shipping Company in Greece

    • Week 14 - 2008
  • “Drought” hits newbuilding orders during March
  • Small shareholders seek seats on Hellenic Seaways' board
  • Sungdong enters VLCC sector with four-vessel order
  • Kongsberg Maritime supports Vietnamese shipyard for Greek owned new builds
  • Gourdomichalis looks to cash in dry newbuilding
  • Excel Maritime Announces the Results of Its Special Shareholders Meeting
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Three New Time Charters
  • CORRECTION - Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc. Restructures Debt Into a Non Amortizing Facility
  • Thessaloniki port profit soars
  • EU keeps an eye on Santorini
  • Three More Greek Americans Running for Congress
  • 1st Posidonia Shipsoccor Tournament - 31 May 2008

    • Week 13 - 2008
  • Call for backing of shipbuilders as four projects are signed
  • Piraeus poised to tap benefits of Greek shipowners’ flight from British capital
  • Blue Star Maritime Revenue increases by 19.1%
  • Diana Shipping: Prime Rebound Candidate
  • FreeSeas Operating Revenue Increased 139% in Fourth Quarter, 72% for Full Year 2007
  • Hellenic Carriers secures loan facility - US$150 million for further fleet expansion
  • Hellenes embrace Facebook
  • Video Interview: Harry Vafias, President & Chief Executive Officer, StealthGas Inc.
  • Aerospace, Defense & Security Trade Mission to Athens, Greece October 7-10, 2008.

    • Week 12 - 2008
  • Coastal shipping fares to rise by 8 percent on regulated routes
  • Hellenic expected to benefit from Thyssenkrupp restructure
  • Egyptian to buy Greek bank
  • CMA 2008: Fears grow over orderbook deliveries
  • Fairplay Company Profile: Aries board rechecks its horoscope
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. to Launch U.K. Service Center on April 1
  • Excel secures $1.4bn credit facility
  • Courting Quintana
  • TNP - 4Q Earnings Ahead of Expectations on Higher Spot Market Results
  • TOP Ships announces reverse share split
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. Appoints New Non-Executive Director
  • Mariner's Choice Enters Euro 23.4 Billion European Marine Market; Signs New Greek Distributor
  • Greece, Azerbaijan agree to promote energy relations

    • Week 11 - 2008
  • Greek-owned fleet booms
  • Younger, bigger Greek fleet is becoming more dominant
  • Credit crunch hurting global shipyard orders
  • Re-Inventing Oneself
  • UK non-domicile fight goes on
  • Goulandris scales down London operations
  • 20 Listed Company CEOs & Analysts in "Invest in International Shipping" - 20 March 2008
  • Alba turns eyes to tankers
  • US$2.45 billion acquisition of Quintana Maritime Limited by Excel Maritime Carriers Ltd.
  • Growth by Stealth
  • TOP Ships' President & CEO comments on Fiscal Year 2007 Financial Results
  • Probe into maritime accident
  • Ports to pay 90 million euros for early retirement plan

    • Week 10 - 2008
  • Newship ordering slows under a combination of factors
  • HSH Nordbank arranges two important Syndication Transactions in Greece
  • Voulgarakis issues open invite
  • Plans to draw shipping firms to Piraeus may include tax breaks
  • Aries up for sale?
  • Hellenic Carriers Announcement Date of Earnings Release, Conference Call and Webcast
  • Sea World orders chemical tanker series at SPP
  • TOP Ships (TOPS) Announces Delivery of the Fifth Drybulk Vessel
  • Move in the Right Circles
  • Minerva Marine Inc. chooses the Seagull Training System
  • Greeks shipping firms oppose pollution controls
  • Pireaus port concession process suffers major setback

    • Week 09 - 2008
  • Greek Owners & The Nature of Equity
  • Angelicoussis drives rates up
  • Piraeus box terminal lease valued at €50M plus rent

    • Week 08 - 2008
  • Shipping pours Euro 17bn into Greek economy as home-flag grows
  • Hellenic Carriers charters panamax vessel for US$64,000 per day
  • Hellespont pays $30m each for Unibros ships
  • Metrostar orders first rig from HHI
  • Navios Maritime: Reports 4Q Results; FFA Gains Again Fuel Earnings Surprise
  • Global Oceanic on the crest of a three-month high
  • Announcement: Tryton Shipbroking S.A.
  • North of England P&I club moves to larger offices in Greece
  • Greek-Russian business forum
  • Renzo Piano Awarded Athens Project

    • Week 07 - 2008
  • Greek-owned merchant vessels are spread across 42 national registers
  • Paying up or packing up?
  • Greek shipping industry set to desert UK
  • Greek owners rekindle crew-shortage warnings
  • Neighbors sailing on the seas of friendship
  • Attica Holdings: Composition of new Board of Directors
  • Hard going as Easy dumps newbuilds
  • Excel Maritime Carriers Announces Appointment of New CEO
  • DryShips unveils record profits
  • TOP Ships Favorably Resolves Class Action Litigation

    • Week 06 - 2008
  • Efthymiou: Owners have obligation to support the Greek Flag
  • Greeks double spend
  • Attica Holdings concludes sale of RoRo Marin for 8.52 mln eur
  • Grand Union in capesize order spree
  • FreeSeas Inc. Announces Inaugural Quarterly Dividend
  • Top Ships announces delivery of the fourth drybulk & immediate charter
  • Transcript of CEO Dry Bulk Forum held 30 Jan 2008 available at no cost
  • Evergreen finally concludes deal for giant boxships
  • Greece to Sell Its Ports
  • Chinese interest in Greek ports confirmed
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Theofilos Xenakoudis, MD, IRI - Piraeus office
  • Voulgarakis in New York
  • Athenian and Viking Confab
  • Vassilis Theodoropoulos appointed COO of HSBC Greece
  • Maran Gas Maritime Inc. chooses the Seagull Training System

    • Week 05 - 2008
  • Bulkers top Greeks order spree
  • Globus Maritime awarded "International IPO of the Year"
  • Alba touting 20 cape newbuilds
  • Excel springs surprise with Quintana deal
  • Restis emerges as Greece's domestic shipping faces overhaul
  • Angry Medcare drops Kouan newbuilds
  • Hellenic Shipyards Obtains Specialty Platform Contract
  • Interest mounts in port container station operations

    • Week 04 - 2008
  • OLP strike could close Piraeus port
  • Man who 'broke the market' resigns
  • Greek newcomer secures 15 units
  • Vardinoyiannis and Grimaldi plot Ro-Ropax shake-up
  • Ionia Shipmanagement' ships may be barred from U.S. ports
  • Star Bulk Approves Finance Moves
  • Quintana Ends Effort to Sell Itself
  • Greek-American Chamber of Commerce planned
  • Karamanlis visit expected to boost trade
  • The Greek Energy Sector: Developments and Opportunities
  • Historical Seas Tall Ships Regatta 2010 - Host ports in Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey finalised

    • Week 03 - 2008
  • Port privatisation ratified
  • Greece: What next after December’s general strike?
  • Greece gathers its 'Dream Team'
  • SPAC Me Again
  • Excel's Quintana buy collapses as board "dithers"
  • The Long Case for Aegean Marine Petroleum
  • DryShips to defer stock split after share price fall
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Announces the Appointment of Chief Operating Officer
  • Stephenson Harwood boosts shipping & trading practices with partner hire
  • Sowing a seed of doubt
  • Drybulk Fundamentals Remain Healthy
  • PROGRAM - P&I Conference - 24 January 2008 - Piraeus Marine Club

    • Week 02 - 2008
  • Hellenic shipowners spend more than $32 billion in newbuildings during 2007
  • Aegean Petroleum to start bunkering operations in West Africa
  • Elmira flying First Class
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Eleventh Vessel
  • Panayiotides set to cement Quintana acquisition
  • Building family fortunes
  • Greek Passage to India
  • Piraeus prefect opposes port privatisation plan
  • Greek police clash with dockworkers
  • Modernization of ports seen to be imperative
  • P&I Conference - Piraeus Marine Club: 24 January 2008

    • Week 01 - 2008
  • Ocean drybulk freight shipping rates come off peak
  • End of year volatility sways tanker fortunes
  • Attica Holdings S.A. announces agrement to sell its RoRo vessel Marin
  • Dragnis to launch new tanker arm
  • Eagle Bulk Shipping orders four 58,000 dwt Supramax Vessels
  • Navios Forms Logistics Business
  • MIGs stake in Attica Group at 58.865 pct and in Blue Star at 51.862 pct
  • Omega Navigation Announces Appointment of Non Executive Independent Director
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan
  • Star Bulk Carriers expand operational fleet to seven vessels
  • Seanergy Maritime announced its first quarterly distribution to public shareholders
  • TOP SHIPS Announces New Trading Symbol
  • TOP Ships (TOPS) Announces Delivery of Third Drybulk Vessel
  • Spain to pursue claims against US shipping bureau over oil spill
  • Ferry released after crew paid
  • P&I Conference - Piraeus Marine Club: 24 January 2008
  • Posidonia Cup 2008 - Race Entry Form

    • Week 52 - 2007
  • Hellenic shipowners occupy No1 spot in second hand vessel investment for 2007
  • Dublin detention for Greek ship
  • Titan Maritime appointed to rescue wreck
  • Contaminated fuel disables containership
  • Lehman Takes Navios Maritime Stake
  • P&I Conference - Piraeus Marine Club: 24 January 2008

    • Week 51 - 2007
  • Hellenic registered fleet shows slight increase in October
  • Seacrest in pink after bulker sale
  • TOP Ships Announces the Results of Its Special Shareholders Meeting
  • Ionia US$4.9M
  • Greek ports to strike again
  • Difficult for Greek Club in face of shift in claims exposure
  • Ness Marine Brokers Norway join forces with DeWitt Stern, Imperatore, Ltd.
  • P&I Conference - Piraeus Marine Club: 24 January 2008

    • Week 50 - 2007
  • Hellenic shipowners continue to pour billions in newbuildings
  • LR's Greek owners back holistic approach on emissions
  • Christodoulou in top job
  • Greek ferry sector puzzled by Laskaridis 250M sell-off
  • Sea Star Cyprus takes Adriatic, Greek seas by storm
  • Greek shipping company fined $4.9M for dumping waste oil
  • Withdrawal date approaching for most single-hulled tankers

    • Week 49 - 2007
  • Ten shipping policies
  • Technical men scrub work done to date on air emmissions
  • Dry bulk shipping boom set to continue
  • Re: 20 Cape Newbuilds for sale (?)
  • Energy Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. to acquire Nine VLCCs
  • Meadway on track to triple fleet
  • Oceanfreight Inc. Announces Management Changes
  • Gianna and Theodore Angelopoulos to Receive Lead100 Award for Excellence
  • With Greece as springboard, Dubai embarks on Balkan spending spree
  • GE Transportation Finance to Invest in Minority Stake in Aegean Baltic Bank of Greece
  • Tax a bitter pill to swallow

    • Week 48 - 2007
  • Greeks buy tanker for conversion
  • Police seizes massive cocaine haul at Greek port
  • Greek Ship May Sail To New York
  • Petraia fined in magic pipe case
  • Court snubs prosecutors in oil case
  • Feds urge $9M fine for Greek shipping company convicted of dumping oil
  • Polemis calls for continued communication on EU plans
  • University of the Aegean joins Microsoft alliance
  • Aries gives tankers out to specialist managers
  • Goldenport Holdings: Conclusion of Four New-Build Bulk-Carrier Contracts
  • Hellenic Carriers Ld - First Day of Dealings
  • Star Bulk Carriers Announces the Completion of the Redomiciliation Merger
  • Top Tankers Inc.: A top value play
  • Clarkson's, Goldenport, Globus Maritime, GO Carriers, D'Amico Intl to Present in London on 4 Dec. 2007
  • Leading Greek Banks Deploy SuperDerivatives for Interest Rates Derivatives and Structured Products

    • Week 47 - 2007
  • Greek merchant fleet up 4.3% in Jan-Sep
  • Athens issues call for universal maritime cooperation at IMO
  • Non-dom tax proposal will cost London, warns Voulgarakis
  • Greece gives us$1m to straits project
  • Global Oceanic Carriers: Change in Shareholder Structure
  • George Soros Reports Navios Stake
  • Metrostar puts faith in handysizes
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Harry Vafias, CEO of StealthGas
  • Crew refused bail again in Greece
  • Tenders called for raising the "Sea Diamond"
  • Capital Ship Management Corp. chooses the Seagull Training System
  • Greek awards turns spotlight on thriving shipping sector

    • Week 46 - 2007
  • Tax threat worries London Greeks
  • Speech by Panos Leivadas: Greece Today - Successes and New Priorities
  • Transman order failure scrutinised for signs of things to come
  • Hellenic Carriers AIM Float To Raise $60 Million
  • Navios MLP Prices at Midpoint in Troubled Market
  • TOP Tankers Announces Delivery of the First Drybulk Vessel
  • Battle of the seas at Sea Star Cyprus
  • WFW enters Athens for renewable energy push
  • Piraeus port an appealing investment for foreigners
  • Indo Greek trade to reach one billion euros by 2010
  • Europe to start buying Azeri Gas via Turkey bypassing Russia
  • CORRECTED-UPDATE 3-Fuel spill closes San Francisco beaches
  • How to Keep Your Company’s Reputation Afloat When You Spill Oil in the San Francisco Bay

    • Week 45 - 2007
  • Dreamtech joins software rat race
  • Hellenic Carriers goes for AIM listing
  • TOP Ships expected to out-perform TOP Tankers
  • Shipowners eye property ashore
  • Philip A Embiricos - Profile by Fairplay International Shipping Weekly

    • Week 44 - 2007
  • London Hedge Fund buys 9.7% stake in Piraeus Port
  • GO Carriers dismisses newspaper claims
  • GO Carriers investigation clears chief exec Tartsinis
  • Louis blames sinking on poor charts
  • Greece’s illegal fuel trade out of control
  • SRH Marine Electronics' management acquires 100% of the company

    • Week 43 - 2007
  • US court acquits Athenian officer
  • Papachristidis is considering move to the Philippines
  • Danaos orders five 12,600 TEU box ships at Hyundai Samho
  • FreeSeas Raises $90 million in Transformational Equity Offering
  • New proposal on track for Hellenic ports' privatization process
  • Cargo fraud warning
  • Greek cruises for ordinary folks
  • Greek Shipping Summit 2007
  • MIG Shipping submits public offers for remaining stakes in Attica Group, Blue Star Shipping

    • Week 42 - 2007
  • Event Review - Greek Ship Finance Forum, 18 October 2007
  • Market buzzes as Quintana looks at "strategic alternatives"
  • GO board taking Tartsinis to task
  • Oceanaut, Inc. enter into definitive agreements for purchase of nine vessels
  • Globus Maritime Announces a New 2-Year Time Charter Agreement for Panamax Vessel
  • Gravity? What gravity’s that?
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Launches New Lubricant Service
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum On The Move
  • Increase in shipping firms
  • Missing captain of sunken Greek cargo ship found dead
  • Oil cleanup nearly finished
  • DNV (Det Norske Veritas) Greek Committee Meeting 2007
  • Polluted concrete coastline no lure for Greeks

    • Week 41 - 2007
  • Bulker price puts owner on defensive
  • Barroso presents action plan for integrated maritime policy
  • Greek diver killed while examining hull of sunken cruise ship
  • Navibulgar’s pick
  • DNV signs research collaboration agreement with NTUA
  • InterManager acts on officer recruitment, standards
  • World bank slams Greece
  • Bank of Greece says more reforms needed to maintain high economic growth rates

    • Week 40 - 2007
  • Greek shipping community sends warning to Conservative party over non-doms legislation
  • Merchant Marine Minister on government policy statements
  • M Karamanlis confers with Merchant Marine minister, IMO chief
  • Greece, Libya discuss maritime demarcation
  • Reflections on a Powerful Event
  • Almi back in action with supramaxes
  • CERES strengthens its LNG carriers Management team
  • Seanergy Maritime Corp. Completes Initial Public Offering
  • Marfin takes majority in Attica
  • TEN Limited Announces Creation of Marine Environmental Committee
  • Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers includes: TOP Tankers, DryShips
  • Dubai Investment seeks controlling stake in MPB, MIG
  • Motor Oil expects weak 3Q07 profit - CFO
  • Hellenic Shipping News interview: Athanasios Samios, Samios Shipping Company
  • Piraeus Events Calender: Shipping Siminars, Meetings

    • Week 39 - 2007
  • Analysts see clear sailing for shipping companies
  • El Victor invests more in ships and management
  • London's AIM is open to Greek (and others) small to medium size shipping companies
  • Shipping and Business people raise $220M in AMEX float
  • Shipping Co.'s Union asks for more fare increases
  • Jefferies Scores at Pierre – and so did Owners and Investors
  • London Retains Leading Position as Global Maritime Centre
  • TEN Limited Increases Semi-Annual Cash Dividend to $1.65 Per Common Share
  • Seagull/NewsLink user forum in Greece 16th October 2007
  • S&B Industrial Minerals to construct processing plant in Morocco
  • Minoan Lines in negotiations for loans restructuring
  • Eagle Bulk CEO: Don't Discount India
  • Smiling Dry-Bulk Shippers See The Boom Times Lasting For Years
  • Minister of Mercantile Shipping outlines strategy for shipping development
  • IPO Analysis: Paragon Shipping Could Deliver The Strongest Yield In Its Sector
  • Diana Shipping: Investor Excitement Justified
  • Owners' costs mounting
  • 3 Bidders Left for Bulgaria's State Shipping Co
  • Shippers talk policies
  • Under new management
  • Floating Service Stations Are Pumped About Their Double-Hull Ships
  • LR bolsters Greek ties
  • Piraeus Events Calender: Shipping Siminars, Meetings

    • Week 38 - 2007
  • Hint at last of a sustained suezmax rates recovery
  • Voulgarakis faces challenges as Maritime Portfolio is expanded
  • Greek shipping on a high
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Mr. Sotiri Dushas, President & CEO of Alba Maritime
  • Greeks richly represented at Jefferies Shipping Conference September 25 - 26, 2007
  • Danaos Extends Order for 8,530 TEU Post Panamax Containerships & Secures 12 Year Charters
  • Excel Maritime Enters into Two-Year Time Charter Agreement at $58,000 per day
  • First-time duo books STX tankers
  • OceanFreight Inc. grows fleet to 9 vessels and $325m credit agreement with Nordea Bank
  • StealthGas Inc Announces Eleven Charter Renewals at Higher Rates
  • Major Cases keep TSAVLIRIS busy in productive year
  • Fortis, RBS and Santander welcome Dutch Minister of Finance consent
  • Piraeus Events Calender: Shipping Siminars, Meetings

    • Week 37 - 2007
  • Disaster relief items heading to Greece
  • Greece is Russia’s new energy buddy
  • Dry bulk seen strong
  • Ocean Trade, S.A. et al v. Ziogas et al
  • Marfin circles as Attica splashes EUR30.4M on two RoRo's
  • GL passes 70 million gt mark
  • Hellas Committee of Germanischer Lloyd Meets in Piraeus
  • Lloyd's Register creates Hellenic Lloyd's: Piraeus is clearly a key business centre for us.
  • Easy Cruise adds Life to fleet
  • Globus Maritime to Acquire a Panamax Bulkcarrier and Expands Fleet to Eight Vessels
  • Captain Paris Dragnis, Founder and CEO of Goldenport
  • Stealthgas septet going back to Stasco
  • Invitation to the ALBA MBA in Shipping Program Presentation
  • Greek Shipping Summit 2007: Present Realities, Future Prospects.
  • TMSA session at Digital Ship Athens
  • Greek shipowners & foreign ship finance executives to meet in Athens

    • Week 36 - 2007
  • Summer boom for drybulk
  • Greeks back stong frightmarket to invest $5.6bn in newbuilds
  • Dahlman Rose Bullish on News from Genco, Aegean Marine
  • Odense Steel Shipyard to build bulk carriers for Carras Hellas Group
  • Stealthgas seeking to service Qatari market
  • AMPNI announces plan to open new service center in West Africa
  • Euroseas Ltd. to Purchase a Container Ship Expanding Fleet to 14 Vessels
  • FreeSeas Inc. Announces Delivery of the Handymax Free Jupiter
  • Dushas hatching new dry projects
  • Ionia found guilty on oil record charges
  • KKR denies joint bid with MIG for Turkish shipping UN Ro Ro
  • MARFIN I.G.: Commentary on Press Reports
  • Modern-era Greek tragedies
  • Greek shipowners & foreign ship finance executives to meet in Athens

    • Week 35 - 2007
  • Greek owners help fire victims
  • Cruise ships rerouted to avoid fires in Greece
  • Consolidation... Booming market alters profile of Greek Fleet
  • Greek newcomer books 12 panamaxes in India
  • Analysts see clear sailing for shipping companies
  • Marfin in shipping
  • Barry Parker Interviews the CFO of OceanFreight, Inc. (NASDAQ: OCNF)
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
  • Key Witness Wavers In Deep-sea Pollution Trial
  • Engineer Pressed In Dumping Case
  • Greek shipping company fined $8,500 for failure to have oil spill readiness plan
  • Greek shipyard workers host art exhibit

    • Week 34 - 2007
  • Alavanos visits Piraeus, outlines coastal shipping policy
  • On and off the Akti Miaouli - people & places
  • Sea Diamond Passengers File Lawsuit Against Cruise Line
  • Chimimport and Multigroup remnants bidding for the maritime fleet NMB
  • Defense for alleged oil dumping says accuser sought reward money
  • Macedonia told to compensate Hellenic Petroleum for breach of contract
  • Ship sought for 50,000 tons of copper concentrate
  • Half a million for whistle-blowers
  • Hellenic shipowners continue to lead the global investment market
  • Greek owners lead S&P pack
  • Sea Star becomes largest shareholder of ANEK
  • FreeSeas to Acquire Handysize Vessel; Increase Fleet to Five Vessels
  • Stealthgas pays seventh dividend
  • TEN Limited Announces Delivery & Charter of Handysize Product Tanker Bosporos

    • Week 33 - 2007
  • Accident leaves bulker stranded off Gibraltar
  • Captain of New Flame cargo boat released on bail
  • Navios ‘evolves its model’
  • Genco buys six more
  • Globus Maritime Launch Corporate Website
  • Vardakis joins Greek owner pack
  • Paragon Shipping Inc. Takes Delivery of Two Additional Vessels
  • TOP Tankers Announces Agreements to Acquire Three Drybulk Panamax Vessels
  • Energy-hungry Turkey drilling for more oil

    • Week 32 - 2007
  • Shipping sector forging ahead
  • Greece's seaplanes seek to simplify island-hopping
  • Ankara probes how Cyprus ships docked at Turkish ports
  • Crew-members to receive back-pay after cargo ship sold in New Ross
  • Blue Star reports 39.9% hike in profits
  • Navios Sponsors 9th Annual Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum
  • BREAKING NEWS: Paragon Shipping Prices
  • Aries Maritime Announces Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results
  • Target lifts order tally over $500m
  • DryShips extends bulker binge
  • Eagle Bulk could add more newbuilds

    • Week 31 - 2007
  • Senator Raptakis - Meetings in Greece
  • Capital Product Partners Appoints Robert P. Curt to Board of Directors
  • Livanos takes control
  • Top Tankers steers into dry bulk
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Mr. Basil M Karatzas - Compass Maritime Services
  • Opposition to scanning bill grows
  • Greek AirSea Lines resume services in the Ionian Region

    • Week 30 - 2007
  • Greeks hold 22% slice of investment in new tonnage
  • Bulgarian tycoon, shipowners eye marine fleet sell-off
  • Greece is the word
  • Hellenic Seaways listing is imminent
  • Danaos Q2 Profit Jumps 95.6%; Declares Dividend [DAC]
  • How Eagle Spent Its Summer Vacation
  • Shares of Excel Maritime Hit High
  • Globus snaps up newbuilding
  • Shipping Company Pleads Guilty to Vessel Pollution-Related Charges
  • US 'jumps the gun' in annoucing guilty plea
  • Italy, Greece, Turkey sign gas pipeline deal

    • Week 29 - 2007
  • Ship capacity grows at a rapid rate in year 2007
  • Brokers say dry tonnage prices are 'astonishing'
  • Exciting week in the ship financing markets
  • Capital ventures ahead
  • Genco Takes it up a Notch
  • Danaos Enters into Agreement to Acquire Five 2,200 TEU Containerships
  • Globus Maritime Ltd Expands Fleet to Seven Vessels
  • Hellenic Seaways plans listing to propel further expansion
  • LMZ Transoil to stay in shipping
  • StealthGas Inc. Announces Pricing of Follow-On Public Offering
  • Two dead, in fire aboard tanker in Perama
  • Detained Greek Ship Escapes
  • First Greek hydrogen submarine

    • Week 28 - 2007
  • 2007 Investors Guide: The Exchange That Launched 1,000 Ships
  • Greece Plans Ship Passenger Rights Bill
  • Ports set for flurry of investment
  • G.A.Gratsos: IAME ADDRESS 4/7/07
  • Panagopuloa sits tight while refuting talk of selling Attica
  • PASOK leader meets with workers at Skaramangas Shipyards
  • Angelopoulos strikes again
  • Seanergy Seeks $150 million with Maxim
  • Top Tankers going dry
  • SHIPPING & THE MEDIA: When the oil hits the fan

    • Week 27 - 2007
  • Athens closes in on cargo hub status
  • Greeks commit $24BN to fleet renewal
  • Greek island pollution from sunken cruise ship is negligible, says company
  • Greek coastguards help in rare joint rescue operation
  • Diana Shipping shares hit high after it completes sale of capesize carrier
  • DryShips sets pace
  • Christian von Olderhausen joins Hellespont
  • Yiannis Aligizakis, Elin’s CEO, wants to expand to European ports
  • Excel Maritime Enters Into Charter Agreements for Two Vessels
  • StealthGas Inc. takes delivery of four LPG carriers
  • Quintana Maritime in Sale Lease-Back of Seven Vessels for $250 Million, Net

    • Week 26 - 2007
  • Major shifts seen in coastal shipping
  • Capital markets are driving the level of bank lending
  • TOP Tankers Announces Issuance of 2.1 Million Shares to Strategic Investor
  • Top 20 advisors: Vivian Lewis sails on with DryShips
  • Restis and Constellation forge dry bulk venture
  • Greece. Globus delivers MV Sea Globe to new charterer COSCO
  • OceanFreight Inc. Fleet Grows to Eight Vessels
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces Pricing of Public Offering
  • Laskaridis emerges as buyer of Zodiac quintet
  • Calypso Marine pleads guilty

    • Week 25 - 2007
  • Greek Newbuilding spree tops $1.47bn in a week
  • Greek takes studied steps
  • NASDAQ celebrations for Greek directed Public companies
  • Public or Private: A question of vision
  • Laskaridis takes control of Minoan
  • Greece fines owners, captain of sunken cruise ship for marine pollution
  • Louis says Greek fine on Sea Diamond was “unfounded and unfair"

    • Week 24 - 2007
  • Aegean Marine Weathers the Storm
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Delivery of Capesize Bulk Carrier
  • Globus Maritime shines at London IPO
  • Navios Maritime to Present at The 20th Annual Marine Money Week
  • Paragon Shipping Files for Listing
  • TEN Limited: First phase of LNG investment now complete
  • Border Police has detained Greek tanker 'Minerva Clara'
  • Shipping fund to tap booming dry freight sector
  • HSH Nordbank opening representative office in Greece
  • Helmepa marks 25 years
  • Karamanlis keeps his word, but concerns remain, says Embiricos
  • Papandreou: Vision of new econ development model
  • Arrest warrants over Sea Diamond
  • Shipowners are proving to be very successful on land as well

    • Week 23 - 2007
  • Angelicoussis stays top of Greece's "Tonne Millionaires"
  • Shipping companies looking for “shell” vehicles to enter stock market
  • Globus cashes in on London AIM quote
  • Ocean Freight Inc. Offers Exposure to Robust Dry Bulk Sector
  • Grimaldi looks east with stake in ANEK
  • Athenian Sea Carriers' “not guilty” verdict
  • Tanker owner, engineer indicted in waste oil dumping case
  • Hellenic P&I Club awaiting bill voting to begin operation
  • Greece proposes gas pipeline on Burgas-Alexandroupolis route
  • MSC is eyeing port of Astakos
  • COSCO eyes Greek port investments
  • TLT gains Piraeus base with Constant merger
  • Piraeus Marine Club: President's Report 2006
  • Marine Money Greece to host Ship Finance & Investment Forum in Dublin

    • Week 22 - 2007
  • Hellenic shipowners cash in on bulk carriers
  • Greek breaks order hiatus
  • Greek ports falling behind
  • Public-private partnership for port security systems
  • BLUE STAR MARITIME S.A. Availability of Annual Report 2006
  • Global Oceanic Carriers Limited: Holdings in Company
  • MARITIME COMPANY OF LESVOS S.A. Forced Sales
  • Navios Maritime Holdings underwriters exercise over allotment option
  • OceanFreight: Completion of the Chartering of Initial Seven Vessel Fleet
  • PIRAEUS PORT AUTHORITY SA Q1 2007 Financial Results
  • Top Tankers Repurchase Vessels, Improve Cash Flow
  • Tsakos: Undervalued Shipping Giant

    • Week 21 - 2007
  • Hellenic Mutual P&I Association closer to reality
  • Passing the buck
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum announces 21% increase in carrying capacity for 10 newbuildings
  • FreeSeas Inc. Announces Dimitris D. Papadopoulos as CFO
  • Newsfront News
  • Quintana Maritime "hold"
  • Quality Registry Essential to Ship Financing, says IRI
  • Island oil mop-up continues
  • Cruise the Greek Islands for about $46 a night
  • When it comes to building on export horizons, Greece is the word

    • Week 20 - 2007
  • Can Piraeus keep everyone happy?
  • Government to sue over sinking of 'Sea Diamond', minister says
  • Greek oil tanker runs aground off Danish island
  • Canal boat accident in HCMC leaves 5 dead, 3 missing
  • Fuelling the market
  • Shipbroker dives into shipowning
  • Aries Maritime Announces First Quarter 2007 Financial Results
  • Backing up Diana
  • Navios Maritime Reports Financial Results for First Quarter 2007
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises Reports First Quarter 2007 Results
  • TEN Limited: Seven of Eleven 2007 Newbuilding Deliveries Now Complete
  • TOP Tankers upgraded to "hold"
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Dimitris Iliou of the Baltic Exchange

    • Week 19 - 2007
  • Hellenic ship owners pour cash on local economy
  • NAT subsidy proposals fuel hot debate
  • Elmira jumps on four Brovig chem tankers
  • Quintana continues Capesize push
  • The “wizard” of shipping
  • Yacht symposium and show on Poros at end of another good year

    • Week 18 - 2007
  • Container terminal in southern Creta needs $1 billion funding
  • The Mouse that Roared
  • Cash-Rich Genmar is getting ready to pounce
  • Kollakis emerges as Chiquita buyer
  • Excel Maritime & Quintana Maritime to presenters at Bear Stearns 2007 Conference
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Delivery of Capesize Bulk Carrier
  • Tsakos takes delivery of two ships from Hyundai shipyards
  • Quintana Maritime Agree to Purchase 4 Capesize Newbuildings
  • Wartsila wins orders for ship propellers from Vietnam's Vinashin
  • Korean firm starts building RP-made ship
  • Municipality of Thessaloniki Creates History at the 2007 Hermes Expo

    • Week 17 - 2007
  • Further growth for commercial fleet
  • Festival executives must pay €5M
  • On and Off the Akti Miaouli - People and Places
  • VIP speakers bolster line-up for Bunkerworld Forum
  • India, Greece to double bilateral trade to €1 billion by 2010
  • An Ocean of Opportunity
  • Two Greek owners put cash in media
  • Nike importer bought by Greek ship-owner
  • FreeSeas Inc. Reports Full Year 2006 Financial Results
  • OceanFreight Shares Open Flat in IPO

    • Week 16 - 2007
  • Ports needed for ships
  • Bank funds flow back into Greece
  • VIP speakers bolster line-up for Bunkerworld Forum

    • Week 15 - 2007
  • Sunken cruiseship's 'black box' retrieved
  • Fatal sinking sparks row
  • Small impact on Greek cruises from sinking, according to industry
  • Greek tanker saves family in peril on boat
  • Feds launch probe into tanker’s waste discharge
  • Private placement instead of tendering awards for ports of Pireaus and Thessalonica
  • Newsfont: Sale & Purchase
  • Diana Shipping sells additional shares
  • Dioryx in $500m boxship splurge
  • Excel Maritime into a Time Charter Agreement for M/V Isminaki at $32,000 per day
  • Navios Maritime Announces George Achniotis as Chief Financial Officer
  • OceanFreight files for IPO with Banc of America, Cantor Fitzgerald
  • Quintana Maritime Expands Presence into Capesize Sector
  • UPDATE 1-Stealthgas leaps, Stolt-Nielsen declines comment
  • Athens Under Russian Pressure To Reduce Its Stake in Burgas-Alexandroupolis Pipeline

    • Week 14 - 2007
  • Proceedings against Sea Diamond captain
  • Greeks lead renewal of the world's merchant fleet
  • Shipping currency inflows top 14 bln
  • Oceanaut, Inc. Announces Separate Trading of Common Stock and Warrants
  • STEALTHGAS INC. Announces Agreement to Acquire Four LPG Carriers
  • Transmed plans Hanjin dry series
  • Greeks reject Barrot's IMO stance
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews CEO of Go Carriers

    • Week 13 - 2007
  • Controversial plan to operate ferry network on the table
  • Anemi in $735m spend at Dayang
  • STX Shipbuilding wins $468 million order from Greece
  • Sale of HSC Tallink Autoexpress 4
  • INTERTANKO's New Chairman set out his vision for INTERTANKO
  • Creating a socially acceptable profession
  • Aries Maritime Announces Fourth Quarter & Full Year 2006 Results
  • Marinakis rings in IPO victory
  • DryShips goes for bigger vessels, Excel for older ones
  • Euroseas (ESEA) Chairman to Ring the NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell
  • “Invest in Shipping”
  • Presentations by Listed Company CEOs and Panelist at "Invest in Shipping" Available
  • Greek Shipping: Job Openings

    • Week 12 - 2007
  • Greek Shipping: Job Openings
  • Greek pair join forces on dry bulk
  • Container ship rates set to rise
  • And the Winner is… Danaos Corporation
  • Marinakis Returns
  • DryShips, Inc. Continues Its Fleet Expansion and Renewal
  • Euroseas - Expanding Fleet to 10 Vessels
  • Eletson Tanker Grounds
  • Demand to double Omega fleet within 3 yrs - CEO
  • OSG fined US$27, with US$10m more to come
  • Bulkers damaged in S Af gales
  • Hellenic seafarers to benefit from new laws
  • Metalworkers determined to have repair law annuled
  • Entering cruise schedules offers multiple benefits
  • Greece to invest 2.5 billion euros in renewable energy sources by 2010

    • Week 11 - 2007
  • Greece, Russia Bulgaria sign pipeline deal - Athens claims place on energy map
  • Russia: Pipeline Deal Raises Energy Dependence Concerns
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli
  • Piraeus Port: Financial Reports for the financial year 2006.
  • Greek shipping company in joint venture for new ships
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum to Present at Emerging Growth Energy Conference
  • Ultra Shipping sells its stake in GO Carriers
  • Excel Maritime 4Q Profit Sinks
  • Navios Maritime Announces New Five-Year Time Charter for "Navios Prosperity"
  • Irika linked to Golden Ocean ship
  • Quintana Maritime Takes Delivery of its Newbuilding "Iron Miner"
  • Tiglao: RP seamen ‘extensively featured’ in Greece
  • WFW raids Athens firm in bid for Greek dominance
  • Illegal immigrants discovered in ship's container after eight days
  • UN refugee agency hails Greek decision to allow stowaways to disembark
  • Piraeus Marine Club Seminar - Basel Capital Accords

    • Week 10 - 2007
  • Hellenic Ministry of Shipping and IMO sign MoU
  • Greek is chic, suddenly
  • Consolidation imperative in competitive ferry sector
  • Greek seas conducive to competition
  • Busy Korean shipyard launches tanker for Greek firm
  • Shipping company indicted after Jacksonville inspection
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Network: Fuel for Your Portfolio
  • Aries in charter agreement with MSC
  • Livanos's perfectly timed takeover leaves Italians kicking themselves
  • Spotlight on Oceanaut
  • TOP Tankers to fight investors’ class action

    • Week 09 - 2007
  • Crew rescued from abandoned ship in storm
  • Merchant fleet expands
  • Greeks abandon old trading habits
  • Greeks spring for $1bn of ‘mad’ cape orders
  • Greek owners applaud manning move
  • Turkish Vessel Export To Greece
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum posts increased earnings
  • Aries Maritime Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2006
  • DryShips Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2006 Results
  • EasyGroup interested in opening a budget hotel in Doha
  • Euroseas Ltd. Reports Results for 4Q and Fiscal Year 2006
  • NEL Sells 2 Vessels for 85 mil euro
  • American Stock Exchange Lists Units of Oceanaut, Inc.
  • Overseas Shipholding Group to Acquire Heidmar Lightering
  • Quintana Maritime Limited Prices Six Additional Vessels for 2008

    • Week 08 - 2007
  • Greek owners hail flag revival
  • Political moves have sunk the private salvage industry
  • ARBITRATION: Level of expertise in London is challenged
  • A major revamping project in western Piraeus takes a step closer to realization
  • More jobs await Pinoy seamen in Greece
  • Greek CEOs in Invest in International Shipping Forum
  • Blue STAR MARITIME S.A. - ANNUAL RESULTS 2006
  • Golden Flame targets capes
  • Navios Maritime Celebrates Its Transfer From Nasdaq To NYSE
  • Quintana Management joins ShipServ TradeNet

    • Week 07 - 2007
  • Greek shipping fleet has 2,013 vessels
  • PM confers with merchant marine minister
  • Drapetsona to become international maritime and business hub.
  • Piraeus port needs investment and reform to keep up with rivals
  • Marfin/Egnatia sees Blue Star Maritime at 4.50 euros
  • Diana may set new benchmark with bulker sale
  • Panayotides Looks to Excel with New SPAC
  • Omega set to take $258M plunge into ICE Class Tankers
  • EasyCruise Charts A New Course To The Greek Isles
  • Greece to Enter the Global Fuel Transit Market by Year 2011
  • George Kourakos, a man ahead of his time
  • Compensation sought for fishermen

    • Week 06 - 2007
  • UGS: Hellenic shipping controls 18.9 percent of the world’s fleet
  • Peter C. Georgiopoulos emerges from the sea as the next Onassis
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli
  • Greeks welcome new flag measures
  • Greek Banking Consolidates: Where Goes the Smaller Owner
  • Greek Shipping maintains high interest in Capital Markets
  • Action averted downunder

    • Week 05 - 2007
  • Shipowners’ fleet expansion strategy carries on into 2007
  • Tsakos in $14M share distribution to group staff
  • Hellenic Shipyards files EU complaint against rival Neorion over unfair competition
  • Supras all Greek
  • Melissa takes first Yardimci cement carrier
  • Two Vessel Corporations Plead Guilty, Are Sentenced for Illegal Dumping
  • Greece to host unique Bunker Summit
  • EU unfazed by Putin's 'gas OPEC' idea

    • Week 04 - 2007
  • One hundred more ships set to climb aboard the Greek register
  • Greek ports see chance to be a hub for China
  • Labour unrest not the only problem facing Piraeus
  • Salthouse: Greek concerns about IG P&I Clubs are just 'myths'
  • $0.25M payout for pipe-blower
  • Are You Being Served?
  • Greek firm keen to charter LNG vessels - Qatar
  • Danaos to invest $177 mln in a New Trading Centre in Sofia
  • Star Bulk fleet set to expand
  • New York-listed Hellenic shipping CEOs navigates through the dry bulk market
  • Executive Seminar on Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management
  • Heidenreich and Couloucoundis to chair 13th Annual Hellenic-Norwegian-American Conference

    • Week 03 - 2007
  • Chopped-off finger led to ship's grounding
  • Inspector heads to Norway after oil spill
  • RP sailors on aground ship in Baltic Sea safe
  • Seafarers ready to stop ships in move to derail measures
  • Good times "still rolling"
  • AB Bank to raise capital after HSH gives up majority share
  • Dubai Financial rejects Piraeus’s bid for MPG
  • Sanyo Hellas Holding invests in shipping
  • Irika lands firm price for supramax with low fix
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Holds Annual General Meeting
  • Excel Maritime announce Time Charter Agreement for M/V Renuar at $26,000 per Day
  • Quintana Maritime announce Time Charter Agreement for Coal Pride at $26,500 per day
  • STAR Maritime agrees to acquire eight drybulk carriers from TMT Co., Ltd.
  • Preaching to the converted
  • Toisa orders five more China offshore units
  • Executive Seminar on Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management
  • Piraeus Marine Club seminars - January 2007

    • Week 02 - 2007
  • PM receives new Piraeus mayor Fassoulas
  • Gov't foresees return to Greek ship register
  • Minister stays the course in dispute with dockers
  • Staggering investment in new tonnage... and it's rising
  • Dry tonnage comes top of the league in 2006 statistics
  • Piraeus band in fresh P&I effort
  • Sector Snap: Greek companies trade ahead
  • Euroseas charts move to Nasdaq in $35 mln stock offering
  • FreeSeas Inc. Under New Structure and Leadership
  • TEN Ltd Announces Delivery and Immediate Charter of the 1A Ice-Class Suezmax Tanker Arctic
  • Piraeus Marine Club seminars - January 2007

    • Week 01 - 2007
  • Greek owners in record newbuilding order spree
  • Monthly sale and purchase report
  • Clemko sets its sights on handy game
  • Euroseas sells old handysize
  • QVT Financial Boosts Its Stake in Top Tankers to 2.4 Million Shares
  • Top Picks 2007: Vivian Lewis travels on DryShips
  • Piraeus port workers agree to suspend go-slow action
  • Zim complains to Greek port over losses
  • Greece: Piraeus Port Authoritiy rejects ZIM's allegations
  • Corinth Canal to open for shipping

    • Week 52 - 2006
  • Zim to sue?
  • No end in sight for container port deadlock
  • Foreign shipping companies’ activities in Hellas reach $4.2 billion.
  • Greece finally sees need to boost register
  • DryShips buys and sells
  • Star Maritime to hold its 2006 Annual Meeting no later than March 1, 2007

    • Week 51 - 2006
  • Major ports face risk of being ditched
  • Kefaloyiannis defends port privatisation
  • Greek spending set to hit $10bn
  • Gourdomichalis brothers quit Nasdaq-listed FreeSeas
  • Navios : $300M Bond brings flexibility
  • Top taps new auditor
  • Tsavliris family fail in Appeal Court battle
  • Greek Pipeline Deal to Be Ready in 2007

    • Week 50 - 2006
  • Dockers to toughen stance as talks produce little progress
  • Greek firm plans investment in maritime, oil, gas
  • New exchange eyes small Greek owners
  • Europarliament inks ban on single-hull tankers for heavy oil (15/12/2006)
  • Blue Strim Maritime: Incredible but true
  • Ship engineers accused of hiding discharges of oil into ocean
  • Maritime stars shine at Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards
  • Elinoil receives Lloyd’s List awards for “green” tankers
  • Stealthgas strengthens fleet
  • Navios Maritime Announces Pricing of $300 Million of Senior Notes
  • A Worrisome Disagreement
  • Restis Group takes control of First Business Bank

    • Week 49 - 2006
  • Port privileges an obstacle
  • Hellenic owners order US$13b of ships
  • Greek Market Report
  • Nigeria: Greek Envoy Backs 2007 Polls
  • Time to move over, Wall Street
  • Aegean calls in Georgiopoulos for revived flotation bid
  • Aegean shares rise almost 10 percent in market debut
  • DryShips Inc. Announces Fleet Renewal
  • TOP Tankers Building 4 New Vessels
  • Tsakos orders ships
  • Paragon Prices
  • Quintana pays CMB US$92.5m for capesize newbuilding
  • Christodoulou exits Dahlman

    • Week 48 - 2006
  • Ship orders show steep rise
  • Greek truckers angered by port protest
  • MSC switches business as dispute hits Greek ports
  • Attempts to move stuck ship unsuccessful
  • Greek minister visits Asry
  • Aegean Marine Petroleum Sets Price Range
  • Navios Maritime Announces Proposed $300 Million Senior Notes Offering
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Takes Delivery of Capesize, Expanding Fleet to 15 Vessels
  • Torpedoed in the foot
  • Analysis of [ Top Tankers ] Numbers
  • Minoan misses sale cash
  • Cypriot heads EUR 2 bln Greek island investment

    • Week 47 - 2006
  • Bakoyannis: Burgas-Alexandroupolis to turn Greece into energy center
  • Russia to allow others to own 49% of pipeline
  • No room for politics in the Port of Piraeus
  • Tankers and cruiseships not a target for terror, says Stelios
  • Box ships get bigger
  • Leading Greeks Reignite New Ship Contracting Spee
  • Greek shipping bankers voice warning to owners
  • DryShips Announces the Appointment of New CFO
  • Educational Program on Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management

    • Week 46 - 2006
  • Secondhand slowdown tipped to encourage discounted prices
  • Lack of incentives turns Greek shipowners away from investment
  • Syria and Greece to Widen Scale of Transport Cooperation
  • Hellenic Seaways' €200M upgrade moves a step forward
  • Vafias looks to the Middle East
  • FreeSeas Inc. Reports Third Quarter and Nine-Month 2006 Results
  • Polembros of Adamantios Polemis joins newbuilding spree
  • Excel falls on lower capacity
  • Port workers strike against terminal concession plan
  • Greece Is The Word!
  • Greek Islands for Sale! Super-Rich Only Need Apply

    • Week 45 - 2006
  • Kefaloyiannis plans major concession on home flag crewing
  • Greek merchant fleet remains buoyant
  • Piraeus downs tools
  • Greek fusion on the cards
  • Mitropoulos sails on
  • Global Union signs innovative deal with Greek shipping firm
  • Fortis Provides $60.2 Million in Vessel Financing to Diana Shipping
  • easyCruise opens new Aegean horizons
  • Tsakos profit doubles as tanker fleet grow
  • Shipping firm faces £100m 'poisoning' suit
  • Liberian growth
  • 'Flag of convenience' vessels often skirt laws to enrich shady owners
  • ELPE wins oil exploration tender in Egypt

    • Week 44 - 2006
  • Greeks remain on the selling side in the S&P Market
  • Prospects for tankers aren’t that rosy for 2007
  • Chinese eyes are smiling
  • Funding coastal shipping
  • HVB goes for ‘ambitious growth’
  • Consolidation clash
  • Greek Shipping Summit 2006 - Consolidation Debate: Speech by John C. Lyras
  • Greek & Turkish Class Societies to knock on AIAC's door
  • Russian firms to share control of Bulgaria-Greece pipeline

    • Week 43 - 2006
  • Greek Shipping Summit: 3 November 2006 in Athens
  • China, Greece to strengthen economic cooperation
  • Ethnos: Piraeus and Thessaloniki to become transit centres for Chinese goods
  • Contractor-General to consider agreeing to Opposition probe requests
  • Stock of homegrown ship officers dries up
  • Global ties put Fortis ahead
  • Global Oceanic rights offer gets 84 pct take-up
  • Confidence high as Economou ploughs $6m back into DryShips
  • Aegean lifts newbuilding book to 40 double hull tankers
  • Bid for voyages with easyCruise/eBay tie-up
  • Cyprus Stocks, Set for EU Entry, Bounce on Greek Link (Update1)
  • Greek Shipping - Job Openings

    • Week 42 - 2006
  • World Coal Conference and Greek Shipping Summit to be held in Athens
  • Greek interests maintain their global lead in the purchase of used ships
  • Insurance and crewing push up ship operating costs
  • Hellenic Chamber of Shipping proposes measures for passenger-shipping’s condition
  • Minister of Interior: guest speaker in the Piraeus Marine Club - 24Oct2006
  • HSH Nordbank to start a rep-office in Athens
  • Naftotrade Cements $60 million NFC Deal
  • Skinitis opens Piraeus shop
  • Greek Awards gain strength in third year
  • Greek Shipping - Job Openings

    • Week 41 - 2006
  • TMSA, World Coal, meetings, conferences, summits - taking place in Athens
  • Greek Shipping - Job Openings
  • Greek shipping mourns loss of shipowner
  • Greek Colour
  • The Public Image of Shipping - How we portray ourselves to the outside world?
  • Transfusion of pride is needed to keep shipping’s heart pumping
  • Greece, Malta double taxation avoidance accord
  • Greek Passenger Shippers Suffer from High Fuel Costs
  • World Debut of web-based test of ability in ship management
  • Tanker rates set to sink
  • DryShips admits heavy FFA loss
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Favorable Long-Term Time Charters

    • Week 40 - 2006
  • Ship Finance, World Coal, conferences, summits - taking place in Athens
  • Greek Shipping - Job Openings
  • Passenger shipping and portal policy concern Greece
  • New actor in Greek bulk play
  • Records set to go on tumbling as buyers maintain their interest
  • Breaking News: Danaos Prices at $21
  • Danaos Makes a Static Debut As IPO Market Loses Steam
  • Dryships lost 2.9% after naming Economou interim chief financial officer
  • A Concession From A Debt Contrarian
  • Lavish life of 'real Onassis' on display

    • Week 39 - 2006
  • Ship Finance, World Coal, conferences, summits - taking place in Athens
  • Call for shipping reform
  • Danaos' analysis of the international shipping industry
  • Clarification on USCG payment to Tsakos
  • Watson Farley launches Greek practice and doubles energy
  • M2M Management launch shipping hedge fund
  • Aries Maritime Provides Update on the Bora
  • DryShips Contracts to Buy New Ships
  • Frangou deeper in Greek banking
  • Alagoskufis: NBG takeover of Finansbank heralds new era for Turkey and Greece
  • New Poseidon Challenge Publication launched in Greece

    • Week 38 - 2006
  • World Coal, Ship Finance, forums, conferences, summits - Athens is the place
  • Seaplane operator widens operations in Greece
  • WISTA Hellas: Women in Shipping Scholarship Series
  • Greece: Ferries to have doctors on board.
  • Greece's ANEK Lines to propose 101.5 mln eur rights issue at Oct 6 EGM
  • Greek carriers swell coffers
  • Danaos Poised for Listing – KG Market Under Threat
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Assumes Shipbuilding Contracts For Two Capesize Dry Bulk Carriers
  • Eletson books four LPG carriers in major diversification
  • Global Oceanic Carriers acquires two more ships, appoints new adviser
  • Omega Navigation to Sell 2 Vessels
  • Quintana Maritime Prices Kamsarmax Vessels at Average of $25,000 per Day for 2007
  • New shipping hedge fund sets ambitious $200m target
  • Hellenic Shipping News interviews Alexis Mamidakis
  • Legendary Greek Ship to Set Sail Again
  • Mediterranean becomes an endangered playground

    • Week 37 - 2006
  • World Coal Meeting, Ship Finance, forums, conferences, summits - Athens is the place
  • Greece, China cooperation in transports sector
  • Syria and Greece discuss enhancing sea transport cooperation
  • Would You Pay $91 Million for a Capesize Bulker?
  • Busy Tradewinds reports on busy Greeks
  • Hot September as Greeks splash $1.5BN on newbuildings
  • Shipping magnate to have Irish assets seized
  • Athens Stock Exchange takes 30 listed firms to London roadshow
  • UECC expands commercial network with new offices in Pireaus and Brussels
  • Russian oil rivalry delays Greek pipeline
  • Eko-Elda fails ‘superior lien’ appeal for Olympia Voyager

    • Week 36 - 2006
  • Greece, South Korea ink wider shipping pact
  • Greek Gov't fields questions over stepped up efforts to build pipeline.
  • Plan B for Russian oil: route through Greece
  • Loading Halts as Ship's Crew Strikes in Long Beach Port
  • UK investors consider entering Greek coastal shipping market
  • Aegean cruise contenders emerge
  • Byzantine Maritime in talks with yards for products tankers
  • FreeSeas Inc. Reports Six Months 2006 Results
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Four (4) Favorable Long-Term Time Charters
  • Hellas Committee of Germanischer Lloyd met on Board of “Festos Palace”
  • DNV Piraeus conference: "Human Element in Shipping", 26 Sep. 2006
  • Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum - 12 October 2006, Athens
  • TMSA in Tanker Operations conference – Athens, October 18, 2006
  • 4th Ann. Digital Ship Athens - October 19-20, 2006
  • 26th Coaltrans - World Coal Conference: 22-25 October 2006, Athens Hilton
  • Greek Shipping Summit 2006: 3 November 2006, Hotel Grand Bretagne, Athens

    • Week 35 - 2006
  • The Port of Thessaloniki - Economic Centre in the Balkans
  • €100M investment sees private eyes fall on Thessaloniki
  • Putin revives plan for Greek oil port
  • Absence of year boosts Hellenic club
  • Ship's Chief Engineer Gets Probation in Oil Dumping Case
  • DryShips plunges on lower rates
  • Minoan gets early bids in battle for Hellenic
  • INTERVIEW-Thriving Greek tourism boosted by Turkish woes
  • Roh to Visit Greece First on 14-Day Trip
  • Euroseas Ltd. to Present at the Roth Capital Partners Conference
  • DryShips Second Quarter and First Half 2006 Presentation
  • Excel Maritime Carriers Enters Into a One-Year Charter for M/V Forteza

    • Week 34 - 2006
  • Greek taps US market for funds
  • Louise franschise deal with EasyGroup boost new ship commitment
  • Greeces Attica Holdings H1 sales down 8 pct yr-on-yr to 151 mln eur
  • Dryships Inc. Announces New Fixed Period Charter at $28,000 per Day
  • Euroseas Ltd. Reports Results for the Second Quarter of 2006
  • Piraeus faces €4.5m fine over MSC deal
  • Busy Ports - 6.4 mln passengers this summer
  • Banana dumping causes Greek stand-off
  • Pipeline regains Russian interest
  • Greece's Aid and Investment Boost Balkan Economy and Stability

    • Week 33 - 2006
  • Oil spill assistance pledged
  • Alarming levels of marine pollution
  • No summer hideaway for owners
  • Smaller Greeks in fleet growth
  • Greeks order Hantong handymaxes
  • Greek ship acknowledges fault in California oil incident
  • Mike Grey to chair Mare Forum in Athens
  • Quintana Maritime Secures Nine Additional Vessels For Approximately $23 K Per Day - Update [QMAR]

    • Week 32 - 2006
  • Greeks ride wave of ship acquisitions
  • DPW to invest in Greek ports
  • Shipyards unable to cope with Greeks’ bulk fleet ambitions
  • ABS wins 2 prestige court rulings
  • 'Prestige' battle could turn class
  • easyCruise goes grey in Belgium
  • DryShips Inc. Expanding Its Fleet to 33 Vessels
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter and Six Months Ended June 30, 2006

    • Week 31 - 2006
  • Greek newbulding spree jumps 2006 investment towards $10BN
  • Needless upheaval over our ships
  • Greek government defends scrapping age limit on working ferries
  • Costamare naming gives Chinese-Greek links a boost
  • Seven score years lead to NASDAQ
  • Martinos takes $5m holding in StealthGas
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Announces Strategic Alliance With Flopec

    • Week 30 - 2006
  • PM attends christening of 'COSCO HELLAS' in Piraeus
  • Lebanon evacuation fumbled, critics say
  • ThPA SA invests 100 mil. euros
  • Polemis seeks dialogue over impending maritime laws
  • Bodouroglou Emerges with London-based SPAC
  • Euroseas Announces Agreement to Purchase Panamax Bulk Carrier Vessel
  • Quintana Maritime Enters Into New $735 Million Revolving Credit Facility
  • Nel Lines sues First Business Bank for over $15m
  • Stelios Haji-Ioannou wants revival of Greek cruising.

    • Week 29 - 2006
  • Zim diverts activity to Piraeus
  • As ships divert to Greece Piraeus stevedores plan strike
  • Greek ferries to see price wars
  • Call for a more competitive coastal shipping sector
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces Annual Shareholders' Meeting
  • Excel Maritime Announces 2Q 2006 Results Release Date
  • Tsavliris and Smit combine in Cape rescue
  • Boxship flees from justice
  • Shipping Companies and Key Personnel Indicted for Vessel Pollution
  • Ship's crew held in legal limbo for 7 months
  • Greek duo gets into media
  • Three new suburban railway stations inaugurated
  • World Coal Conference to be held in Athens - October 2006

    • Week 28 - 2006
  • Piraeus, shipping hub on the rise
  • Deputy FM discusses cooperation in shipping, trade during visit to Brazil
  • Greeks splash $12bn in six months renewing fleet
  • Owners get more value for money
  • LPG carrier crew injured in blaze
  • Eurocorp Assigns 'Add' for Attica Group Share
  • Aries Maritime Announces Time Charter for Bora and Update on Citius
  • Quintana Maritime Announces Special Shareholder Meeting
  • London Club’s “strong” year
  • Mystery deepens in ABS’ Prestige battle

    • Week 27 - 2006
  • Attracting interest for the refurbishment of ports
  • China's largest container ship on the international market
  • Blue Star buys fleet as last rites are administred over Dane
  • Greek owners in $6bn record newbuild spree
  • State aid: Commission investigates support to Greek shipyard
  • Frangou secures big slice of bank
  • Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. Increases Size of Credit Facility to $450 Million
  • Kristen Orders 3 Oil Tankers From Hyundai Heavy, Fearnleys Says
  • Omega Navigation Announces Delivery of Two Product Tankers
  • Indian Naval ships to visit Greece

    • Week 26 - 2006
  • Time running out for ‘old tubs’ says European ferry survey
  • Greek ferryboat tops ranking for safety standards
  • Nightmare claim worries owners
  • Cost of shipping crude may weaken further
  • European shipping policy needs to readjust its compass
  • 'Integrated' EU policy for the seas meeting
  • Papoulias reassures Greek Shipowners
  • Shipping industry wins pollution challenge in London Court
  • Growing Importance of the New Greece to the United States
  • TOP Tankers Announces Its Inclusion in the New Nasdaq Global Select Market

    • Week 25 - 2006
  • Container ships on course
  • Maritime industry heads for choppy waters
  • 'Summer slump is cancelled'
  • Impact of strike still evident, but Piraeus is on the way back
  • NEL Lines re-engines ferry as breakdowns disrupt services
  • Hyundai Leads Korean Duel With China for Greek Shipping Riches
  • Global Oceanic AGM rejects re-election to board of CEO and chairman
  • Greek shipping tycoon set to rescue sinking PAOK

    • Week 24 - 2006
  • Owners face "truly frightening" additional calls
  • Greek shipowners still in revolt over common structural rules
  • All parties should assist shipping, owners suggest
  • Leaking ship granted refuge in False Bay
  • Peraticos may be on the comeback
  • Diana to buy dry bulk tanker for $39.6M
  • Omega Navigation Announces Delivery of Its Second Panamax Product Tanker
  • Founder of easyJet joins the nation's top flight
  • Out of court on court

    • Week 23 - 2006
  • Minister of mercantile marine opens posidonia 2006
  • Posidonia 2006
  • Greek quality revolution seen as hand-in-hand with consolidation
  • LNG carrier demand fuels classification societies competition
  • Samsung Heavy Gets $1.5 Billion Order for 14 Ships (Update3)
  • European Shipbuilders Eye Cruise Sector
  • Navios set to expand South American operations
  • Returns registered for Cayman Islands
  • Historic yacht comes home to Greece

    • Week 22 - 2006
  • Plain sailing as Posidonia opener gets under way
  • Lim Hwee Hua to visit Greece, Brussels, Luxembourg
  • Doctors to be appointed on islands and coastal shipping vessels
  • Greek shipping’s key role for the US
  • Polemis preaches transparency and dialogue
  • The imagination to change with the times is key
  • Diana Comes Back for More
  • Omega Navigation Announces Delivery of Panamax Product Tanker
  • Shrewd investments
  • Greece: 823 firms seek cooperation with Turkey
  • Attica Holdings to acquire a ferry operator in northern Europe this year
  • Greece's Attica Group Q1 net loss 5.5 mln eur vs loss 3.8 mln
  • Minoan Lines: 8.5 % improvement in net results
  • Seamen’s Union imposes embargo on Superfast Ferries ships in Port of Hanko

    • Week 21 - 2006
  • Greece's 131-strong ferry fleet could dwindle to just 47
  • Coastal shipping appears to be on the right course
  • Attica Group Q1 Sales Up 8.5%
  • Eurofin targets $100m tanker war chest
  • Callimanopulos lifts investment niche fleet
  • Diana Shipping signs a $300 Million Amended Credit Facility With RBS
  • PM sees positive prospect in investments and trade relations with China
  • Downie on Grecian Expedition
  • ICS forum in Athens draws crowd
  • Worsening weather and restricting regulations add to salvors' woes

    • Week 20 - 2006
  • Piraeus as arbitration centre wins industry backing
  • Ferry fares deregulated
  • Attica Group divident at 0,08 DPS
  • Angelicoussis in Malta flag move
  • Prestige: digging up the truth
  • Quintana buys 17 ships
  • Theodore Angelopoulos: Millionaire Maker, or Market Magician?
  • Major shipping deals on way
  • Melissa Lines - Mediterranean Feeder Service

    • Week 19 - 2006
  • Greek Shipping to Remain Leader in a Competitive Mkt, Says NBG
  • Thessaloniki and Timbaki ports set for development
  • Piraeus hopes Euro 215m will restore its status
  • Greece, Egypt examine routes for nat-gas supply
  • Ferry companies fail to find sea of cash
  • Pretoria urged: Resume rescue
  • Cyprus flag for Stelios’ $400 million Greek cruise investment
  • AEK Athens fans destroy ferry-boat in Greece
  • Transmed set to hit tanker sector running
  • Aries Maritime Transport Declares First Quarter 2006 Dividend
  • Diana Shipping schedules First Quarter 2006 Earnings Release
  • DryShips acquire its 29th Vessel
  • Excel Maritime Announces First Quarter 2006 Release Date, Conference Call & Webcast
  • Omega Navigation to Present at Bear Stearns Conference
  • Stealthgas to acquire three LPG carriers expanding fleet to 27 vessels
  • TEN Limited completes delivery of nine-vessel western petroleum fleet
  • TOP Tankers Q1 Net Jumps On Higher Voyage Revenues - Update
  • Quintana Maritime Reports First Quarter Results
  • Vecom & Unimarine form alliance of key suppliers to the Marine Industry

    • Week 18 - 2006
  • Greece: Union of Shipowners to strike on May 16
  • Liberalize coastal shipping
  • Ferries to Greece back on schedule
  • Three vow to rejuvenate Greek-Flag Cruising
  • Greek shipping firms plan ferry services in the Persian Gulf
  • Agreement on maritime transport with the Hellenic republic and Bahrain
  • Hellenic Shipyards hunts naval work
  • Alexandros T: search continues
  • Filipino survivors of Greek ship mishap to get aid
  • POSIDONIA 2006: Map shows access to the Hellenikon Exhibition Centre

    • Week 17 - 2006
  • On and Off the Akti Miaouli
  • Tug of war on ship fares
  • Daewoo book fattening with Greek VLCCs
  • Top to Issue Secondary?
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Time Charter Agreement With Australian Wheat Board
  • Euroseas Ltd. Announces Delivery of its Multipurpose Vessel
  • Secret Dubai deal helped save oil tanker hijacked by pirates
  • Chevron Interested in Joining Bulgarian-Greek Oil Pipeline
  • Condoleezza Rice Remarks With Greek Foreign Min.

    • Week 16 - 2006
  • Greece's big boys are not necessarily the largest
  • Ferries await fare date
  • A day in the life of an LNG carrier's captain
  • DryShips Inc. Takes Delivery of Its 28th Vessel
  • Richards Butler wins Appeal Court case for insurers against North Star
  • easyCruise goes by river to Amsterdam
  • Hellenic Petroleum Considers Penetration in Natural Gas Mkt
  • European Goldfields: Greek Government Positive on Business Plans

    • Week 15 - 2006
  • Embiricos, Foschi awarded
  • Anna Kountouriotou appointed MD of West of England (Hellas) Limited
  • Greek niche Market specialists book newbuildings
  • Greek-owned fleet is growing at a lower rate, global share falling
  • Tide of funding ebbs in Greece
  • FreeSeas Makes Its Debut in New York
  • Globus offers cash injection for GO Carriers
  • Global Oceanic Carriers Limited: Notice of EGM
  • DryShips Inc. Reports Completion of New Credit Facility
  • Turkey-Greece: 9th Business Conference kicks off
  • Greece's Hellenic Petroleum in talks for joint bid for Serbia's NIS

    • Week 14 - 2006
  • Develop Greece with free zones
  • Transneft links Black Sea oil to Greek pipeline
  • First COSCO Container Ship To Use Piraeus Port Docks Sat
  • UPDATE 1-Greece's National Bank climbs after Turkish deal
  • Fortis Bank Grows in Greece
  • Weber and Compass forge Greek link
  • Diamantides puts tanker fleet on the market for $1bn
  • An Oil Tanking Firm To Watch
  • Aries Maritime Closes on $360 Million Fully Revolving Credit Facility
  • Greeks in GO Carriers raid
  • Omega Navigation Enterprises Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
  • Star Maritime rings opening bell at AMEX
  • Niarchos Foundation Gets Hellenic Societies' Award

    • Week 13 - 2006
  • Kefaloyiannis call for Cretan bidding stuns ferrymen
  • Govt Mulls Pvt Investors For Piraeus Port
  • OLP's ATP up by 31%
  • LPG sector grows further
  • Greek flag declines as nation’s tonnage soars
  • IACS detailed response to Greek concerns over new Common Structural Rules
  • Superfast scales down northern exposure
  • Omega on the Road: New Year, New Company,New Ships
  • Euroseas Reports Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2005
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Acquisition of Its Fleet Manager

    • Week 12 - 2006
  • Coastal shipping fares to be liberalized from Piraeus
  • Tallink buys Superfast ferries
  • Maran finds its feet in world of LNG transport
  • BW Gas to work with Maran Gas
  • Not so sweet FFA
  • DryShips Dividend Discrepancy Happily Resolved with $530 million Refinancing
  • Tsavliris poised for IPO
  • Onassis foundation completes restoration of historic Greek cathedral in Egypt

    • Week 11 - 2006
  • Greece and Kuwait discuss economic cooperation
  • Greece, Russia plan to speed up pipeline project - ministry
  • Greek, Libyan leaders meet on bilateral ties, AU-EU relations
  • Jamaica Ship Registry woos international clients
  • Cosco moves into Greece
  • Top Tankers – Finding Arbitrage in the Leasing Markets
  • Excel Maritime Q4 Net Income Rises On Higher Revenues - Update
  • DryShips Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year 2005 Results
  • Greek transportation firm plans Nasdaq, SGX dual listing
  • Efthimios Mitropoulos to address Member of Piraeus Marine Club
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli

    • Week 10 - 2006
  • Ferry subsidy failed to save nightly route
  • Over 96M passengers use Greece's passenger ship annually
  • ‘London Greeks’ issue flag exodus warning
  • Union could turn up heat on Hellenic Shipyards
  • Shipping stocks in rough seas
  • FinMin presents policy priorities for 2006-07
  • Samina jail terms seen as ‘too lenient’

    • Week 09 - 2006
  • Port action makes Greek Tory government seasick
  • 19 years for Samina navigator
  • Sailor shortage growing
  • Shipowners: time for government to show it means business
  • Lembesis speaks up for Greek shipping
  • Consolidated Marine Management first to meet ABS expanded HSQE notation
  • New Training Centre of Excellence in Piraeus
  • Star Maritime announces separate trading of Common Stock & Warrants
  • TEN Limited enters agreement for purchase of nine ice class product tankers

    • Week 08 - 2006
  • Seamen suspend strike, ferries back in work
  • Greeks make case against ‘unsafe’ common rules
  • Intermanager's KPI Standard dovetails with TMSA
  • Can Greece be a logistics hub?
  • Greeks top list for most bulker buys
  • Greece's Attica Enterprises FY 2005 net 28.1 mln eur, down 21.1 pct
  • Quintana Maritime Announces Time Charter for M/V Kirmar
  • Euroseas Ltd. to present at Roth Capital Partners Conference
  • Genmar in Bosphorus scare

    • Week 07 - 2006
  • New composition of Greek government
  • ASE Management to hit the road and sell the exchange to shipping
  • Aries in New $360 million Facility Led by Bank of Scotland and Nordea
  • Blank-cheque team launches IPO, spending plans vague
  • Quintana Maritime Announces Two Time Charter Agreements
  • Tsakos’ newcomer sets out on first round trip
  • Onshore sources responsible for more sea pollution than ships
  • Unimarine Services Ltd. wins Dubai International Maritime Award

    • Week 06 - 2006
  • Philosophically speaking
  • On and Off Akti Miaouli - People & Palces
  • Shipowners want reform
  • GenMar plans to dispose of nine tankers and Technical Office in Greece
  • Euroseas Announces Registration Statements Declared Effective by SEC
  • Shipping giant looks to Greece
  • Louis wins case over ship purchase
  • Chios 2005 Shipwreck Survey
  • Greek Banking, Telecom and Technology: Upcoming Prospects for the Key Players

    • Week 05 - 2006
  • Posidonia 2006 moves to Athens old Airport site - exhibitor space up 30%
  • Gov't announces plan to build a new airport in Heraclion
  • Raising shipping’s profile – the campaign goes on
  • Investor Interest: Drying Up?
  • More big tankers will mean lower profits for shipping
  • NEL'S Ventouris set to shake up ferry marketplace
  • Ince partners facing fraud action in Blue Strim case
  • TOP Tankers Reports on M/T Flawless
  • Ancient Greek Merchant Ship Found

    • Week 04 - 2006
  • Plan for port modernization has role for private sector
  • Shipping industry challenges EU directive
  • Praise for Port Administration but criticism for Minister
  • Did players' greed curdle their milk?
  • Dry shipping industry has a rocky crossing
  • LR awards OSG fleet Ballast Water Nnotation
  • Cost of addressing TMSA - Is it primarily a training problem?
  • 21 today but snubbed by the Onassis trust

    • Week 03 - 2006
  • China's Greek feast
  • Growing pains in evidence as show leaders join space race
  • Coast Guard clears Athos I
  • Foreign competition holds no fear for ferry operators
  • Greek action slowing but still healthy
  • Expansion of shipowners’ fleets will drive profits down
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Two New Time Charter Agreements
  • Former client hits Ince with $35m action

    • Week 02 - 2006
  • Ferry operators profess no fear of foreign competition
  • Minoan to pay heavy price after losing price fixing appeal
  • Gard faces Aries payout
  • Greek Diana Shipping Sees Higher Demand In '06
  • Global Oceanic keeps the faith
  • Tsakos Energy to add five tankers
  • Russian ship fiasco sparks claims
  • Athens Conference: TMSA and Continuous Improvement in Tanker Operations
  • Posidonia 2006 - Piraeus 5th-9th June
  • SSBA New Years Meeting - Wednesday, 25 January 2006

    • Week 01 - 2006
  • Ship fares to be liberalized on busy routes
  • Greeks continue spending on S&P
  • Bow Mariner: captain to blame
  • Industry responds to Bow Mariner report
  • Playing Chicken with George – Part II
  • Financier steps down from TEN’s board
  • EasyCruise line eyes American market

    • Week 52 - 2005
  • Crew to sue shipowner
  • London Stock Exchange no match for Nasdaq in attracting shipping firms
  • A call for intenational solidariy

    • Week 51 - 2005
  • ON AND OFF THE AKTI MIAOULI
  • Greece to create maritime service cluster and improve sea training
  • Lloyd’s underlines its commitment to Greece.
  • Diana Shipping Inc. President Anastassis Margaronis Interviewed by Wall Street Reporter
  • Global Oceanic Carriers Ltd - Interim Results
  • Navios Maritime Announces New $649 Million Global Loan Facility with HSH Nordbank
  • Another 'blank cheque' written
  • Athina and Alexandra Martinos honoured
  • Technology to make ships green

    • Week 50 - 2005
  • Greeks lash out at common rules
  • Oil thieves sentenced in Nigeria
  • Greek sizing up dry-bulk orders
  • Greek Only Investor Shortlisted for Petrom Privatisation
  • Ventouris emerges as big NEL stakeholder after rights issue
  • StealthGas - from nowhere to a 20-Plus LPG Tanker Fleet
  • Excel Maritime Positive on DryBulk Sector Fundamentals
  • FreeSeas Successfully Completes Reverse Merger with Trinity

    • Week 49 - 2005
  • The Greek Shipowners support the Greek flag
  • Owners warned to look crew to break the ice
  • Greece calls for full discussions on new laws
  • Comninos kid debuts with Seaforce launch
  • Diana Takes Price Cut, but Succeeds in Raising Over $60 Million
  • StealthGaz Expanding Fleet to 22 Vessels
  • Marine Money Greece: Contributing to Greek ship financing
  • Ince ships in top finance man
  • No lien for bunkers
  • National TV starts weekly Greek Shipping program
  • Global Recruitment Agent A.M.B ! Consulting sets up in Athens
  • “Piraeus International Centre Award” to Piraeus Marine Club !
  • Shipowners Meet for Germanischer Lloyd Hellas Technical Committee Meeting
  • Corporate and Promotional X-Mass Gifts

    • Week 48 - 2005
  • Gov’t eager to pursue Crete harbor project with Chinese investors
  • Shipowners Rocked by AXA's decision to quit P&I Line
  • Goldenport - What's in a Name?
  • The Tsakos Shipping Clan expands
  • Angelicoussis is personality of the year at Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping Awards
  • Berenberg and Peninsula toast Greek connections
  • Mediterranean oil tanker rates rise
  • Tanker Operator conference in Athens, 31 January 2006
  • Piraeus Marine Club's 6th International P&I Conference, 12 January 2006

    • Week 47 - 2005
  • Onassis aide Stelios Papadimitriou dies
  • Somali pirates free captive ship and crew
  • Liquidator sets about clearing up mess at DANE
  • Excel Maritime Agrees to Sell 26 Year Old Vessel
  • New captains of industry catch a wave of consolidation
  • Surge in world trade keeps Greek shipowners in the lead
  • Greek shipping community underlines its love affair with the London market.
  • Athens bourse sets new rules to woo big owners
  • The fix is on
  • 2004 oil spill still resonates
  • LLoyd's List Greek Shipping Awards & Dinner 2005
  • Quality also concerns well-trained seamen, Kefaloyannis tells IMO Assembly

    • Week 46 - 2005
  • Athens 'NO' to Spanish request to freeze Universe assets
  • $1 million fine for waste oil discharge
  • Orders for new ships decline sharply over first three quarters
  • Greek interest in ‘poor relations’ not matched by builders
  • Panamaxes dominate in year of subdued purchasing
  • Greek fleet operators find IPO odyssey far from plain sailing
  • Takeovers and IPOs bring bulkers out in landmark deals
  • Greece's Aegean Marine plans U.S. IPO
  • Greece To Open 18,000 Miles of Coastline to Dive Industry

    • Week 45 - 2005
  • Greek-owned shipping fleet flies flags of 45 countries
  • Club taking hard line on Greek fleets
  • Sale-and-Purchase squalls ahead?
  • HCS calls on Port Authority to take lead in Perama rivival
  • Sarlis takes Piraeus battle to court
  • Consilium Marine Group of Sweden anchors in Piraeus
  • Greek Metrostar Management Orders Six Bulk Carriers Worth 221.7 Mln Euro
  • Excel to avoid capital markets in dry bulk consolidation.
  • China Shipping Group Favors Greek Island
  • Gas pipeline will turn Greece into major gas transit hub

    • Week 44 - 2005
  • Kefaloyiannis steps-in to keep ferry services running
  • Greece supports the course of the Black Sea countries to Europe
  • Sarlis blames MSC contract for downfall
  • Greek container shipping group plans a London listing.
  • Chinese eye Crete’s ports
  • We are not for sale, insists Eletson
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Announces Two Vessel Acquisitions
  • General Maritime Announces Sale of Seven Aframax Tankers
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Announces Enlargement of Its BoD
  • Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. Begins Trading on NASDAQ's
  • StealthGaz Inc. Announces Delivery of "Gas Marathon"
  • Quintana Maritime Limited Reports year-to-date Results
  • Pistiolis goes for ships rather than mergers
  • TEN reports $0.98 EPS for the third quarter of 2005

    • Week 43 - 2005
  • New rules for stronger ships from next April
  • Financial fears limit Europe shortsea fleet
  • Double fine for fleeing bulker
  • Contribution of Small Greek Owners to Greek Shipping
  • Eastern Mediterranean doubles its bulker money
  • Aries Maritime Transport Limited Acquires Products Tanker
  • Diana Shipping Inc. Reports Financial Results For the Third Quarter
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Announces the Sale of Tanker 'Dionisos'
  • Quintana Maritime Announces Third Quarter 2005 Results

    • Week 42 - 2005
  • Greece determined to shape contents of shipping's ‘Green Book’
  • IACS and Greeks go head-to-head on rules
  • Coastal shipping in need of a boost
  • PM confers with ministers
  • Greek CEOs take to the stage at finance forum
  • Angeliki Frangou: Scent of a Woman in World Shipping
  • Superfast Ferries expanding in the Baltic Sea
  • Hellenic Petroleum Drills Oil in Libya
  • Olympic sale still stuck on the runway

    • Week 41 - 2005
  • Embiricos: EC Directive constitutes "an illigality"
  • RI's shipping industry too protective: Greek shipowners
  • Greece checks cargo ship after locating suspect birds
  • October wind chills IPO play
  • The London AIM market and Greek shipping
  • TOP Tankers Announces the Acquisition of Three Suezmax Tankers
  • Global Oceanic says currently trading profitably; confident of prospects
  • Maritime ratings
  • P&I club calls for Greeks to rally shipowners.
  • Quest for cleaner seas
  • Bimco Course: Athens 22-24 November 2005

    • Week 40 - 2005
  • Record-Breaking Marine Money in Greece
  • Financial analysts under attack
  • For those outside "The Big Boy's" funding will be difficult
  • Greek Shippers See More IPOs Despite Cool Market Interest
  • Greece bins lucrative US oil deal
  • Cheap, efficient way to clean up oil slicks in sea
  • Greeks lead the way
  • More Difko tankers to Greek operator
  • Petridis puts his faith in LPG carriers
  • Update 1: StealthGas Falls in First Day of Trading
  • Quintana Maritime Enters into New $250 Million Revolving Credit Facility
  • ABS: 12 th Straight Year of Fleet Growth

    • Week 39 - 2005
  • Shipping needs state action
  • "Sea" Dispute in Parliament
  • Criminalisation affects safety
  • Images of the Maritime Industry not simply about ships
  • No liability for Festival owner
  • Greek Lawyers move down the road to Piraeus Arbitration
  • International ship brokerage firms land on domestic shores
  • A Ship-Shape IPO
  • Excel Maritime Poised for Stability and Growth
  • Cove Apparel, Inc. Announces Business Combination With Euroseas Ltd
  • Norton Rose advises HSH on $520m loan
  • Fortis Appoints Harris Antoniou the New Head of the Global Shipping Group
  • Greece-Russia ministerial meeting ends with cooperation protocol

    • Week 38 - 2005
  • Greek owners see common rules as a common starting platform
  • Pappadakis elected at Intercargo
  • Greece's largest business delegation ever to Russia Sept 27-30
  • Hellenic ferry finally built after six years
  • Attica Group's Revenues Decrease by 3.4% in H1:05
  • Golden Energy Cuts IPO Size To 7.5 Million Shares From 8 Million Shares
  • Aries Maritime Acquires Two New Products Tankers From Stena Group
  • Poseidon Capital Helps Pittas Family Execute Reverse Merger/PIPE
  • Making Waves
  • EFG International Plans to Raise Up to SF1.73 Billion in IPO
  • Trans-it opens sales office in Greece
  • Greek Shipping Awards expanded for 2005

    • Week 37 - 2005
  • Hurricane cruiseship cancelled as Greece gets 'cheaper offer'
  • Rescuing boat people
  • Breathtaking Study of Shipping's First Glory Days - 1950 to 1974.
  • Greek owners take the plunge
  • Maran Gas, Metrostar, Stealthgas build on confidence
  • Centurian splashes out
  • Top buys two, leases three
  • Quintana Maritime Limited Launches Its Corporate Website
  • Excel Maritime Carriers (EXM) Commences Trading on NYSE
  • Navios Maritime Holdings to Present at Jefferies Shipping Conference in New York

    • Week 36 - 2005
  • Gov't announces measures to improve coastal shipping services
  • Greece Sends Hurricane Aid
  • Salvor says P&I rejected helicopter as too pricey
  • Ancora buys quartet of Prisco handysizes in $100m deal
  • GO Faith Charter update
  • StealthGas Inc. Announces Initial Public Offering
  • Quintana in $136.8 mln buy
  • Excel Maritime Carriers to List on the New York Stock Exchange
  • Aries Maritime to Present at Jefferies Shipping Conference in New York
  • Diana Shipping announces new contracts
  • PPC Evaluates Plans for Cooperation with International Peers

    • Week 35 - 2005
  • Merchant marine and finance ministers brief PM
  • Newbuilding activity hots up in august
  • New system of ships' checks
  • Olympic Gulf on expansion path
  • Vafias family's StealthGas seeks to raise $107m in Nasdaq listing
  • Stelmar K/S Deal Sold - Back to Greeks
  • Frangou gets it right
  • Salvage stalls as Kiperousa moves further inshore
  • Over 5 million people used Greek sea ports this summer
  • Motor Oil: Profit down 9%

    • Week 34 - 2005
  • Shipping sector readies for new EU strategy
  • New generation opens windows
  • Caspi inaugurated a new Ro Ro service - Haifa - Limassol - Piraeus
  • NEL claims over problem-hit fast ferry engines
  • Global Oceanic Carriers Limited: Market Update
  • Quintana Maritime Completes Initial Fleet
  • Quintana and TBS also Get Jefferies Buy
  • Dryships Inc. Takes Delivery of its 27th Vessel
  • Hibernia Southcoast Capital Initiates Coverage on Excel Maritime (EXM)
  • International Shipping Enterprises Announces Completion of Acquisition of Navios Maritime Holdings Inc.

    • Week 33 - 2005
  • Shipowners are on collision course with expensive Asian shipyards
  • So Many Greek Shipping Magnates … Where do they all come from?
  • Storm ahead
  • Investors set sail on shipping stocks
  • Boom and bust at sea
  • Hanseatic bags deal with TOP Tankers
  • Quintana Maritime Limited Takes Delivery of Vessel

    • Week 32 - 2005
  • Athenians leave for cooler destinations for August 15 holiday
  • Lifeline for ferries
  • Navy ships, diverted ferry to help Greek island vacationers
  • Seaplanes bring new life to Greek islands
  • Greeks temper historic year with concern
  • Who needs London?
  • Captain turned master broker
  • The Greek Logistics Market: A Perspective

    • Week 31 - 2005
  • Sea investment
  • Investors shy off shipping
  • Tough action threatened after spate of Greek ferry mishaps
  • Passenger Shipping: 'it is time for brave decisions'
  • Universe Maritime under court embargo
  • ANEK moves into cargo shipping
  • GO Carriers Takes Ownership Of Its Third And Largest Vessel
  • Excel Maritime Announces New Composition of Majority Independent BoD
  • TOP Tankers Files Universal Shelf Registration
  • Aries trades up after its IPO
  • TEN Reports 39% Increase and Record Profits Q2

    • Week 30 - 2005
  • Exploring the Age Differential: Why It Fell and If It Should Rise Again
  • IPO expert offers tips on investor relations
  • Shipping That's Not All In The Family
  • MCCL bolsters its role in the Mediterranean car trades
  • Cadet training deficit
  • Tall tales
  • Greece: Labour bill expected to be adopted today
  • Kiperousa declared total loss
  • Japanese maritime training vessel to vist Piraeus port next week
  • Intracom returns to telephony market
  • Digital Ship Athens 2005

    • Week 29 - 2005
  • Shipowners eye LPG
  • Criminalisation concern
  • Fair Voyager, foul behaviour
  • Former client puts Ince in dock over shipping brawl
  • BIMCO Masterclass Workshop in Athens
  • Greece refuses to give ground to EC demands on ferry manning
  • Four-star rating for Fife ferry service
  • Massive drop in Greek ordering
  • EU directive is damaging to shipping
  • Current accounts deficit down in May

    • Week 28 - 2005
  • Pssst, want to ship a car?
  • Memorandum of Understanding for financing Greek seaports
  • Ports up for facelift
  • Greeks on NAT-linked ships dip under 'psychological level'
  • Greece leads revolt over ship pollution fines
  • Polluter will pay more after EC wins lengthy Greek sea battle
  • High profile for Cayman shippers at international event in Greece
  • Andros shipowners support campus
  • The Shipping Bubble - Got a canoe? You should do an IPO.
  • Quintana Martitime IPO sets sail
  • Genco
  • Boatloads of cash?

    • Week 27 - 2005
  • Euro 2bn launch to Greece\'s energy dream
  • Greek tanker owners sail ahead globally
  • Greek shipowner numbers in decline
  • Free-market converts
  • Daewoo Gets $340 Mln Ship Orders From Belgian, Greek Customers
  • Intertanko to promote Poseidon Challenge at singapore
  • 'Dazed' dolphin shuts down Greek port
  • Mechanical Failure on Express Pigasos
  • Change at Skuld Hellas spurs buzz of departure
  • Onassis: Announcement
  • easyCruise announces the launch of its 2005-2006 Caribbean cruise program

    • Week 26 - 2005
  • MSC on the verge of quitting Piraeus
  • Greek dockworkers act to save their jobs
  • Athens, Ankara sign multi-faceted trade cooperation memorandum
  • Ferry services to Greece resume this summer
  • Greek shipowner base consolidates
  • 'This is a fabulous time to be wealthy'
  • TOP Tankers rated 'strong buy'
  • DryShips Proves the Power of Consistent Investor Relations
  • Aries Maritime Exercises Option on First of Two Container Vessels
  • Why Capital Maritime Pulled its IPO - What it Means
  • Excel Maritime Agrees to Sell Cape Size and Acquires Panamax Bulk Carrier
  • Attika Holdings: first quarter 2005 results
  • United States with new law on oil spill prevention measures

    • Week 25 - 2005
  • Marine Money spotlight falls on the Greeks
  • Antiquated Greek ports are dangerous for shipping
  • Cargo left to rot in Piraeus as dock workers prolong strike
  • Greek brokers stage big show
  • Introduction speech: Oil Tanker Panel - Marine Money Week
  • Turkey delays signature of protocol extending customs union with EU
  • U.K. Coastguard Detains Liberian Oil Tanker on Safety Faults
  • TOP Tankers Announces New Time-Charter Contract
  • Surging tide of shipowners sees attraction of flotation
  • Top shipping man in Cyprus
  • Kiperousa's owners fail to put up guarantees
  • Union seeks tougher regulation of ship standards
  • FBB overcomes early skepticism
  • Fortis sets sights on ship finance and insurance growth
  • Greek-Italian Natural Gas Pipeline
  • Qatar Airways starts flights to Athens

    • Week 24 - 2005
  • Thyssenkrupp moves to cement Hellenic's future
  • Egyptian-Greek maritime network agreement
  • An old hand gives views of what has to be done for Greek shipping
  • HSH Nordbank boasts modern appearance of financed fleet
  • Consultant group says $2bn will go to Greece
  • Greeks continue US equity hunt
  • Excel Maritime Sells One of Its Older Vessels
  • Blue Star completes 200 mil. euro bond issue
  • TEN Receives 'Ship Safety Achievement Award' from The Chamber of Shipping of America
  • Hellenic Technical Committee: Guidelines for Corrosion Protection and PSC implications discussed

    • Week 23 - 2005
  • Shipowners get new EU rules
  • Family company culture alive and well in Greek shipping
  • Tankers add sheen to Greek fleet\'s profile
  • Money for nothin', cheques for free
  • Salvage crew ready to haul log-ship off rocks today
  • Minoan Lines reduces losses
  • Oil pipeline joint venture
  • All you ever wanted to know about Paris Latsis

    • Week 22 - 2005
  • Karamanlis issues warning in wake-up call to Piraeus
  • Prime Minister Karamanlis unveils strategy for shipping sector
  • Shipyard talks
  • Jefferies speaks
  • Unions seek to prevent Greek ship from leaving
  • Poulides all shook up at eyrie in Switzerland
  • Cocaine captain gets 20 years
  • Oil cleanup effort on Delaware ends
  • Islamabad seeks $2bn damages for oil spill
  • easyCruise heads towards Greek islands

    • Week 21 - 2005
  • Barroso survives confidence debate over free holiday with Greek tycoon
  • Gov't targets private capital for upgrade of ports
  • Court targets Festival executives
  • Greek cargo ships to take on materiel destined for Iraq
  • Greece to help in NATO equipment transport for Iraq
  • Greece Seen as key cog in OSG's expansion plans
  • Top Finally Gives up on Convertible Offering
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation announces new stock repurchase program
  • Top OSG billing for old Stelmar
  • Speech: Anthony Zolotas, Eurofin, at the LSE Greek Shipping Finance conference May 25 2005

    • Week 20 - 2005
  • Brussels fails to placate Greek owners
  • Barroso to confront critics of his cruise
  • US awards $250,000 to four Pinoy seamen
  • Pireaus signs € 35m port upgrade scheme
  • Alpha Bank's shipping division grows as market moves rapidly
  • Reefers in hot enbloc deals worth $158m
  • Altomare confirms 12-ship contract
  • IPOs at frantic pace
  • Shipping industry share sales bonanza
  • Aries Maritime Transport LTD filed F-1 on 05/16/2005
  • Renovation of the Piraeus Marine Club
  • Anniversary Book to mark 70th ann. of the Propeller Club Port of Piraeus

    • Week 19 - 2005
  • New Fast Ferry Service in Greece
  • Shipyard registration continues to cause problems
  • The American Club opens office in Piraeus
  • Greek ship captain in hot water for docking at Famagusta
  • Shipowners pay for Cyprus call
  • Quintana, Eagle Bulk IPOs May Struggle as Shipping Shares Slide
  • JFC swoops on Lagoa ships
  • Vafias group swoops for three more LPG carriers
  • Stelios confident in success of easyCruise

    • Week 18 - 2005
  • Greeks dominate international ship sale and purchase market
  • Owners express reservations about plan for a doctor on board
  • Greeks need to get on with their job
  • S.Korean trade financing bank offers us$135 mln to Greek ship co
  • Quintana - Wall Street Mining Wall Street
  • Nice little earner from Stelios
  • OSG reports soaring income
  • Excel Maritime takes physical delivery of two Panamax bulk vessels
  • Richards Butler sinks insurance fraudsters
  • Greek Navy Investigates Incident on Norwegian Ship
  • Hellenic Petroleum sees 2009 profit 500-600 mln eur
  • ELPE's hydrocracker to be operational by 2009

    • Week 17 - 2005
  • Minister visits Piraeus port, comments on Easter measures
  • EU again asks Greece to deregulate coastal shipping
  • Greece leads opposition to EC plan to grab IMO power
  • Greek listings fail to float
  • High charter rates play their part as DryShips surges
  • Top Tankers in $300 Million Convertible
  • Diana reaps sixfold profits
  • TEN Limited - Realizing $10.5 Million Capital Gain
  • Genmar Financial Review: 2005 First Quarter
  • HHI to build world's largest LPG ships for Latsis
  • Greek partner in Edda Gas

    • Week 16 - 2005
  • New wave of shipping is sought
  • Greece Looks to Attract Shipping Companies
  • Passenger ship owners scale back routes due to costs increase
  • Greek chem- tank pool to roll in 2006
  • Public image is limited
  • Athos I, final chapter: oil spill leaves lasting mark
  • GO Carriers to take AIM route to shipowning
  • Tsavliris calls for respect for salvage profession
  • TOP Tankers Inc. Announces New Employment Contracts for 12 Tankers
  • Greece, Counting on Post-Olympic Boom, Now Faces Tourism Bust
  • Oil and gas pipelines spur closer ties among Black Sea countries

    • Week 15 - 2005
  • Minister calls on shipowners to invest in several sectors
  • Ship Owners Increase Fleet Sizes in Greece
  • Greek fleet: smaller but younger and still tops
  • Banks trust Greek shipowners as loans fund ship purchases
  • Banks put faith in new-look Greek operations
  • Ensuring Grecians earn
  • Samos Steamships said to have made big profit
  • EU pollution "interference" will harm trade, says Greek shipping chief
  • UGS President's speech at Intertanko Athens Tanker Event 2005

    • Week 14 - 2005
  • She wants it all, and she wants it now
  • Shipowners worried over delivery delays
  • Greek-Italian cooperation memorandum on sea transportation
  • Piraeus Port container volume declines 4%
  • Greece: Structural challenges remain says Citigroup

    • Week 13 - 2005
  • Oil tankers: Short on supply, long on profits
  • Med cargo ship operators blast the Government
  • Tender for Greece-Turkey pipeline to be re-launched in April
  • Ferry firm partnerships
  • Greek bulk carrier salvaged by SvitzerWijsmuller
  • Cargo ship engineer gets jail for ocean pollution
  • DST Shipping's roots run deep
  • Hellenic Petroleum imports shadow double-hull trend
  • Top Acquires Nomikos - A Watershed Event
  • DryShips Agree to Acquire 2 Additional Vessels and Delivery of 8 Vessels
  • Gourdomichaelis Signs Agreement with Trinity in Shipping SPAC Debut
  • INTERTANKO Athens Tanker Event 10-13 April 2005

    • Week 12 - 2005
  • Ten more bodies recovered from burnt-out ship
  • Cargo ship engineer gets jail for poluting ocean
  • Gratsos: Greece too dependant on the fleet; lacks infrastructure
  • Owners fire trade talks warning
  • Gov't announces first step toward freeing ferry fares
  • Greeks say manning is cost problem
  • Dubai-Greece trade crosses 100m euros
  • Diana Shipping Prices at 1.37X Net Asset Value; 8X Cashflow
  • Hellenic Seaways spots gap
  • New line easyCruise promises little -- and that might be a lot
  • Turkey-Greece natural gas pipeline tender annulled

    • Week 11 - 2005
  • Greek shipping still inspired by Onassis
  • Lavrion promotion likely a case of 'whistling in the wind'
  • Pipeline to bypass Bosporus
  • Attica denies HS stake increase
  • Cardiff Marine forced into ITF deal
  • Louis Hellenic celebrates first Piraeus cruise
  • European cruise line casts off frills
  • Newly Cemented Relationship

    • Week 10 - 2005
  • Ministry promotes move to Lavrion, cruise shipping
  • Greek bulker collides with anchored Swedish tanker
  • Captain Mangouras to be allowed to return to Greece
  • Greece, Cyprus to set up joint committee on shipping
  • Excel goes back to Equity Markets
  • SeaContainers and Evgenides team up in Greece
  • Euronav adds $1bn Ceres deal in second Greek swoop
  • Maritime frenzy may be prelude to Greek tragedy
  • Valuing DryShips: Proving Demand for Shipping IPOs
  • Genmar Kestrel is latest major repair job as Hellenic bounces back
  • Bulgaria-Greece Pipeline Building Inked in April

    • Week 09 - 2005
  • Greek committee blasts new EU fouling sanctions
  • Mehmet Ali Birand: Turkey will lift embargo on Cyprus
  • Growing support for Greece's class society
  • Diana Shipping – Sailing toward a successful IPO
  • DryShips announces agreement to acquire 8 additional vessels
  • Excel Maritime launches website
  • Euronav snaps up VLCCs
  • Attica goes shopping for ships and shares
  • Major port investment plan
  • Bow Mariner tragedy being called avoidable
  • Owners face long wait on spill claims
  • Greek Banking Giant Plans to Buy Bank in Turkey

    • Week 08 - 2005
  • Greek seafarers on the brink of strike action
  • Year later, Bow Mariner investigation wrapping up
  • Illegal bypass
  • IPOs prove booster rockets for dry market
  • Tsakos Turns in Shipshape Year
  • Goodbye Oslo
  • Attica buys Minoan stake as Sherwood stands on Greek doorstep

    • Week 07 - 2005
  • Used ships fetch good prices for shipowners
  • French bank moving into Greek shipping
  • "Innovative" rules put Greek passenger shipping in danger
  • Vafias emerges as key DryShips investor after Brave Bulk sale
  • End of the line for Royal Olympia
  • EST chooses BV to class 32 bulk carriers
  • Excel Maritime agrees to acquire MV Seaboni
  • easyCruise offers low-cost cruise option
  • Greece's OPAP mulls expanding Kino to cruise ships
  • Isle of Man set to cap income tax

    • Week 06 - 2005
  • Ship begins medical work under SLN restrictions
  • Captain of seized ship will plead guilty
  • ELPE to invest 70 Mln euro in Bulgaria expansion
  • ISF enters into exclusive negotiation rights for acquisition of Navios.
  • Athens plans futures clearing house
  • Shipping magnate sees sustained freight prices for years to come
  • Eight ships go in a week
  • Greek Fleet Facts

    • Week 05 - 2005
  • Meeting of the Ministers of Transport of the BSEC Member States
  • Shipping going strong
  • Competitive fares for ferries?
  • User provoked shake-up of Piraeus port management
  • Greek class society wins US approval
  • Greek to the bone
  • Marinakis gunning for US offering
  • He's Back!

    • Week 04 - 2005
  • No repeat performance is likely
  • Quiet confidence amid soft panamax rates
  • BSEC transport ministers agree to cultivate closer transport links with EU
  • Minister Oh and Greek Minister of Mercantile Marine discuss ways to forge partnership
  • Signing of Balkan Oil Pipeline Construction Fixed
  • Piraeus Port Authority is heading for an interesting A G M
  • Shipping clan opens restored Piraeus office
  • Superfast keeps its market position
  • Cosmoship has ordered four 1,040 TEU container ships
  • Excel Maritime takes delivery of the second of five vessels purchased recently
  • Ship officers plead guilty of federal charge
  • Stelios attacks Norton Rose over alleged Stelmar conflict
  • Cap on damages sought in oil spill
  • Hellenic- / Norwegian-American Joint Shipping Conference

    • Week 03 - 2005
  • Shipowner derides Greek state's plea to invest onshore
  • Greek shipping is the economy's heavy industry, minister says
  • Passenger shippers complain
  • Jefferies & Marine Money bring a little bit of US Markets to Greece
  • Ferry talks face tough odds
  • Trinity Partners and Adventure Holdings, S.A. Announce Letter of Intent for Business Combination
  • Ship's owners agree to $500,000 fine
  • Talks on Pegasus sale fail; 'money was not the issue'
  • Commission considers Greek legislation incompatible with Capital Duty Directive
  • Hellenic American Bankers Association will honor Stelios Haji-Ioannou

    • Week 02 - 2005
  • Greek shipowners stay on top of the buoyant wave in global market
  • EU Commission warns Greece over capital tax regime
  • Lauritzen Kosan sells three more units to Greece
  • George Economou's DryShips Files S-1 ~
  • Alafouzos deals demonstrate freedom and flexibility
  • Excel Maritime takes delivery of the first of five vessels purchased recently
  • Bureau Veritas supports HELMEPA'S 2005 Training Programme
  • Neorion yard wins new mega yacht contract
  • Attica Holdings receives two Ro-Ro ferries
  • Taiwan loses Kenting oil-spill suit
  • Kefalogiannis guest speaker at Piraeus Marine Club Luncheon 25 Jan 2005

    • Week 01 - 2005
  • Greeks double tsunami aid
  • Greek Shipowners Plan Share Sales, Bet on Rates Rally (Update1)
  • Greek spending sets new record
  • Clubs face regulatory challenges as investment chickens come home to roost
  • Shipping company fined for spilling oil into Columbia River
  • Stelios approves OSG take-over
  • Attica clinches weighty stake in rival ferry giant HFD
  • Rosyth link to Norway on cards for Superfast
  • Port of Piraeus-Floatation of a further 24% stake possible
  • Free navigation on Rhine and Danube?
  • Athenians, falling in love again

    • Week 53 - 2004
  • Banks hesitant over funding new Greek ship orders
  • Shipowners aim to strike while the iron is hot
  • Excel Maritime Carriers appoints Eleftherios Papatrifon as CFO
  • Cantor Fitzgerald hire Anthony Argyropoulos
  • UPDATE 1-Balkan states give green light to oil pipeline
  • Minister expects agreement on Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline by Spring
  • Forget OPEC. The next cartel may export drinking water.

    • Week 52 - 2004
  • Decidedly Greek flavour to 2004
  • Shipping maintains position as chief currency earner
  • Five IPOs from Greek shipowners
  • EC slams Greece shipyard policy
  • Safety dispute stirs EU court case
  • Greek cargo ship crew safe after fire
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation listed in Europe's Top 500 Companies
  • GAC's new boss goes to Europe in search of more business

    • Week 51 - 2004
  • Shipping maintains position as chief currency earner
  • Greek shiprepair sector in crisis as registration deadline looms
  • International Shipping Enterprises raises $171 Million
  • Frontline considers takeover bid for oil tanker rival Genmar
  • U.S. shipper buys Stelmar for $843 Mln
  • Stelios to net £90m in shipping line sale
  • Other people's money
  • Marine Money Greece announce first Gulf Ship Finance Forum

    • Week 50 - 2004
  • The future of Piraeus
  • EU criminalisation proposal amended
  • Probe on two-ferry purchase
  • Greece Pushes Trans-Balkan Pipeline
  • Magnus makes waves with K/S
  • Attica Group to Add New Car Ferry Route
  • Youthful team at Beltest seeks to reshape views on investing in shipping
  • Frontline may be taking a run at General Maritime
  • 13 Filipino sailors stranded in Long Beach

    • Week 49 - 2004
  • Greek port strike set to disrupt cargo shipping
  • Aegean islanders are desperate for regular, frequent ferry service
  • BMA report on 'Prestige' places prime blame on Spain
  • Greek shipowners embrace derivatives as rates reach records
  • Greeks place faith in Russian oil
  • Restis set to take MISC buy in stride
  • Strategic buyers rumored to be converging on Stelmar
  • Company says it'll fund cleanup
  • P. Tsakos named Chairman of Lloyd's Register's Hellenic Committee
  • Greek seaman to be released from prison Friday
  • Germanischer Lloyd Academy Seminar in Athens

    • Week 48 - 2004
  • Celebrating the achievements of Greek shipping
  • Ferry operators call for full liberalization
  • 'Small-fry club' keeps premium
  • Oil tanker aground in Stanley harbour.
  • Dynacom in $316m spree for 10 tankers
  • Stelmar Committee begins seeking offers
  • MV Amorgos: Taiwan waits Norway's verdict on 2001 oil spill
  • Crews race to contain oil slick from spill in Delaware River
  • Turkey - Greece natural gas pipeline construction to be put to tender
  • Russia needs a pipeline to bypass Turkish straits

    • Week 47 - 2004
  • Greece insists on position regarding ship-source pollution
  • Shipping and EU transfers lower 9-month C/A deficit
  • Ferry operators report improved results
  • Greek coastguard rescued 120 illegal immigrants
  • Aspropirgos refinery becomes operational again
  • Mangouras allowed home, for a while
  • Cook drowns as ship sinks
  • Georgiopoulos in $420M bulker deal
  • Stelios plays chicken with Fortress
  • Onassis hits the spot
  • Excel Maritime announces agreement to acquire new vessel
  • 'Stellamare' to ply new waters
  • Hill Taylor and Thomas Cooper in merger talks

    • Week 46 - 2004
  • Slowdown, but Greek orderbook still tops 350 ships
  • Dry woos investors
  • Frangou on roadshow "blank check" blind pool shipping company
  • Bureau Veritas: 9th meeting of the Hellenic Marine Technical Committee
  • Salvors conquer elements to refloat bulker
  • Gigilinis increase fleet to 8 tugs
  • Criminalisation rebels delay EU sanctions
  • Dimitris Talianis photographs the harbors of Greece

    • Week 45 - 2004
  • Trilateral Ok on jumpstarting Oil Pipeline Project
  • Minister backs Greek-Swedish projects in Balkans
  • Greek shipping grows, expects more from gov't
  • Port investment perks, but no Piraeus Port flotation
  • Greenpeace accuses Greece of passing the buck on pollution
  • Tsao urges Greece to hold line and save the industry
  • TOP acquires 5 suezmaxes from Essar, issues more equity
  • Tsavliris reports busy summer for salvage and towage services
  • Horizon and Louis bid to buy cruise line debt

    • Week 44 - 2004
  • Diamonds are a girl's best friend
  • Shipowners call for upping global shipbuilding norms
  • Sales outweigh purchases as limited berth space curtails new orders
  • Mediterranean trio block EU deal on polluting ships
  • Greece, Cyprus and Malta vote against reinforcing maritime penal framework
  • Greece insists on decision to block E.U. plans penalizing polluters
  • General Bulk: Peter G teams up with Oaktree again
  • H F D to invest € 92m in fleet upgrade despite policy reservations
  • Festival fraud investigation

    • Week 43 - 2004
  • Greeks sitting on pile of cash
  • Top Tankers enjoys better P/NAV valuation than most
  • More public listings may emerge from 'bastion' Greek market
  • Morgan Stanley opens its first office in Athens
  • Gov't slammed on deregulation of ferry routes
  • UGS comments on Goal-Based Standards, IACS common rules
  • "Prestige" claims at close to USD 1 billion
  • Illegal immigrants rescued from sinking boat near Greek island
  • Brussels tells yards to give back subsidies

    • Week 42 - 2004
  • Live from the 6th Annual Greece Ship Finance Forum
  • Greek seafarers threaten industrial action
  • Greece and Cyprus discuss re-establishing sea link
  • Lauritzen Kosan sells two units to Greece
  • Stelmar commences mailing of proxy materials in connection with pending merger
  • Navitrans in dispute over derivatives
  • NOS, Oslo Clearinghouse, to Raise Cash After Default (Update1)
  • Jones returns to his roots with Piraeus agency venture
  • IPO long shot pays off
  • Nafto Trade Shipping in talks with Turkey's Selah Shipyard
  • Qatar signs deal for charter of LNG carriers
  • Greece's National Bank staff to strike on Nov. 1

    • Week 41 - 2004
  • PM, merchant marine minister discuss seamen's problems
  • ISTEC discusses Common Rules with Joint Tanker Project representatives
  • Nigeria, Greece sign N156m pact on maritime trade
  • Samina charges are toned down
  • MISC vessels attract bids
  • Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Announces Itinerary Change
  • German shipyard alliance forged
  • Greek tanker safely salvaged from Hatterbarn
  • Marine Money and Fortis Bank to host the 6th Annual Greek Ship Finance Forum
  • Ministers think better of not turning up for lunch
  • Gratsos takes Hellenic Chamber helm after president's sudden death
  • Greek owners slam EC on criminalisation directive

    • Week 40 - 2004
  • Merchant shipping sector expects gov't to offer solutions, not set up committees
  • Mangouras loses latest appeal
  • Mitropoulos focuses on maritime security
  • Fosen may start rebuilding of Greek ferries
  • Med Mepas launch joint attack on marine pollution
  • Cruise ship collides with oil tanker
  • Greek tanker grounded in Storebaelt
  • Stelmar proxy headed to vote
  • Tanker stocks 'valued too low'
  • Latsis group in row over lost yacht
  • FYROM gov't minister cites compromise with EL.PE over pipeline company

    • Week 39 - 2004
  • Greek shipping business earns 9 billion dollars in Jan.-July
  • Greeks urged to wake up to derivatives
  • Greeks step warily into the future
  • Storm brewing over Hellenic
  • Belgian unions target Polembros
  • Greek Oil Transporter OKs Acquisition
  • Pericles Panagopoulos - Blue Star Ferries
  • UPDATE 1-Stelios angry at buyout of shipping firm Stelmar
  • Diamantides lifts newbuilding investment to over $1bn
  • Stalled ferry still able to teach a lesson
  • Innumerable wrecks in Greek seas

    • Week 38 - 2004
  • Greek ships are on IMO's white list
  • Shipowner linked to smuggling of 10,000 migrants into Italy
  • Twenty-year claims low for London Club
  • Mangouras lawyers keep up the fight
  • easyJet boss eyes budget cruise line
  • Stelios launches new attack
  • Digital Ship Athens, 2-3 November 2004
  • Marine Money Greek Ship Finance Forum - 14 October 2004

    • Week 37 - 2004
  • Intertanko: Greek owners grasp the opportunity
  • Hellenic in push to vary workload
  • Greek Fleet facts
  • Greek shipping stunned by sudden death of Alexandratos
  • Beltest Shipping Company Ltd - new style shipping in the 21st century
  • Curtain call close in Dane Sea Lines story
  • City's maritime rebirth
  • Still a lot to do for 'Doing Business' [in Greece]

    • Week 36 - 2004
  • Kefaloyiannis: The Olympic 'dowry' must not be lost
  • Olympic boost for Piraeus
  • Higher stakes on tourism
  • Modion orders chem tankers at Samho yard
  • DANE Sea lines on verge of collapse
  • Royal Olympic Cruise Lines receives extension from greek court
  • Greek-flag crude oil tanker hits New Orleans ferry terminal
  • TOP Tankers announces delivery of seventh vessel in series of ten
  • Pistiolis is professional, poised on first conference call
  • S&P revises outlook on Greek Piraeus Bank

    • Week 35 - 2004
  • Piraeus port now in competition with London
  • On the crest of a wave?
  • EFIC support for Austal contract
  • Goerlitz tries to 'do a Rehhagel' at Hellenic
  • Royal Olympic protection extended
  • OLYMPIA's future in the lap of the Gods?
  • TOP reaches halfway

    • Week 34 - 2004
  • Shipping plays big part in Olympic watery theme
  • Shipping bolsters receipts, first-half C/A deficit narrows
  • EU launches green paper on pre-trial detention measures
  • London's shipping status on the rocks
  • Another notch up for the price bar

    • Week 33 - 2004
  • Mary comes to the Olympics
  • Athens liabilities "unrealistic"
  • Setting the record straighter on INSB
  • Further sale of stakes in DEPA, HELPE soon
  • Fosen builds for Blue Star, Stena
  • Stelmar Shipping Ltd. completes 2004 newbuilding program

    • Week 32 - 2004
  • Greeks push the boat out
  • Attica Enterprises in move on ferry operator HDF
  • Promised loan from Dane Sea Line saviour fails to appear
  • Elder Bush to bunk on luxury cruise ship during Athens Olympics
  • Greece celebrates opening of showcase bridge before Olympic torch's passage
  • TOP Tankers announces delivery of first vessel in series of ten
  • Hurst to join Thomas Miller Hellas
  • Event: DIGITAL SHIP ATHENS - First Announcement
  • Event: Marine Money Greek Ship Finance - 6th Annual Forum

    • Week 31 - 2004
  • Markets lift before summer lull
  • Piraeus 'shortlists two firms' for ISPS Code port contract
  • CSI now implemented at world's 20 busiest ports
  • Unprofitable ferry routes will cost taxpayers euro 44m
  • Greek navy patrols its coast for signs of 'suspicious ships'
  • P&I clubs draw swords in battle for hearts
  • Putting the Top Tankers deal in perspective
  • EM Capital hired by Greece's Dane Sea Line to resume sailing for Olympics

    • Week 30 - 2004
  • Main port of Piraeus closed for security cable installation
  • Agents say Piraeus "is now moving in the right direction"
  • On the crest of a wave?
  • Owner alarm over IACS bulker rules
  • Shipping narrows C/A deficit
  • Financial account balance
  • Ferry operators return to free competition standpoint
  • Greeks eye tanker operator
  • Stamatis Restis dies
  • DZ Bank makes $1 million on Top Tankers IPO

    • Week 29 - 2004
  • Greece manpower export missed on ministry tussle
  • Fewer, but more expensive ships ordered by Greeks in 2004
  • Why shipping needs Stelios
  • London Club says Spain s not learning Prestige lessons
  • Elefsis anger as Hellenic turmoil continues
  • Dynacom plans IPO on NYSE
  • Greek Oil, LNG Shipping Co Mulls Listing In New York
  • UPDATE 1-JP Morgan starts Greek banks at "overweight"
  • Ingledow forms executive services firm

    • Week 28 - 2004
  • Greek-flagged bulk carrier, suspected of pollution, diverted to French port
  • Criminalisation of seafarers 'turning young recruits away'
  • Marine academy students to be allowed to take job in Greece
  • Greeks welcome OCIMF initiative
  • Salvors' prime role in protecting Europe from pollution
  • Are fares fair for ferries?
  • Behind a big fat Greek divorce
  • TOP Tankers Inc. files Initial Public Offering of Shares
  • Vafias joins with North Star to form Chinese subsidiary

    • Week 27 - 2004
  • "Prestige" master's appeal rejected
  • Handymax sale gives hint of easing prices
  • Greek shipping company threatens to lay off Maldives seamen after drug offences
  • Shipping industry strategy
  • Greeks use pity for political support
  • Little progress made in ferry price battle
  • 'Easyjet Could Go Private' - Report
  • Royal Olympic games
  • Early bookings flood in for Posidonia 2006

    • Week 26 - 2004
  • Greece looks to ship services
  • Greece signs Container Security Agreement with U.S.
  • "We could live to regret ISPS delays": Mitropoulos
  • U G S optimistic but says government can do more for shipping
  • Aframax forecasts remain optimistic
  • Full speed ahead for oil shippers
  • Wooden walls
  • OMI prices shares for Athenian deal
  • Royal Olympic Announces Anticipated Nasdaq De-Listing
  • Tech Support

    • Week 25 - 2004
  • Europe takes a knock at Posidonia
  • A world leader in a sector where fair competition rules
  • Strintzis takes helm at HFD heralding new phase in ferry sector
  • Banks push more money to Greeks
  • General Maritime transaction completed
  • NOE's fleet now 20% Greek managed
  • W.I.S.T.A. Hellas met overseas members
  • Unimarine closes new contracts at Posidonia

    • Week 24 - 2004
  • Greek ship owners test the waters in high profile Posidonia visit
  • Speech: E.G.E. Embiricos, Chairman of the Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee
  • Outstanding loans to Greek shipping firms rise to $24.8 billion
  • Greek ordering spree continues
  • Primal Tankers rumored to be mulling US ipo
  • Golden Energy mulls New York tanker listing
  • Strintzis resignation has Greek ferry market in a spin
  • Shipyard lawsuit revealing
  • New hope for Mangouras

    • Week 23 - 2004
  • Greek owners on the crest of a wave
  • Expanding Greek fleet is engaged in consolidation process
  • OMI + STELMAR: why Marine Money believes it's a done deal
  • Stelios' first comments on the proposed merger between Stelmar and OMI
  • Greek operators use boom profits to update
  • Friendly end to shipyard suit?
  • Greek prime minister will open Posidonia
  • Posidonia 2004 General Information

    • Week 22 - 2004
  • OMI/STELMAR - the drama continues, the premium erodes
  • Press Release: Stelmar Shipping Ltd. Retains Financial Advisors
  • Mare teams up with Moundreas
  • Ferry ticket feud between owners and ministry turns nasty
  • European ferries safe but risks remain
  • Results of the 2004 Pan-European car ferry testing programme
  • Med ports feel strain of box surge

    • Week 21 - 2004
  • Greek Shipowners' Merchant Fleet Tops The List
  • Ferries jump on bandwagon to lure passengers aboard
  • I M O votes down mandatory double hulls for bulk carriers
  • Nice capes rates for Golden Union
  • OMI could offer US$600 million for Stelmar Tankers
  • Understanding Tsakos Energy
  • Poulides' parting shot serves up Festival conspiracy theory
  • Hellenic delays Greek refinery work due high margins
  • Bureau Veritas Hellenic and Black Sea Committee AGM report

    • Week 20 - 2004
  • Greek ship evacuated after bomb threat
  • Embiricos attacks 'flawed and misguided' reasoning
  • Piraeus on track to stay a container contender
  • Restis adapts for the future
  • The ship "Kerinia II Eleftheria" sailed into the port of Piraeus
  • Estonia, Samina and their impact
  • Greek refiner Hellenic tenders to buy SR fuel oil
  • Royal Olympic Cruise Lines applies for NASDAQ smallcap listing
  • The Stelmar transaction - understanding the motivations

    • Week 19 - 2004
  • Transport and communications minister visiting Istanbul on Sunday
  • Syria blacklists four ships, nine companies for Israel links
  • Norwegians buying used ships from Greeks? What Gives?
  • Newbuilding contracts report
  • Greeks dip into wet niche trade
  • Financing of Greek shipping firms keeps attracting strong interest from major banks
  • Elefsis develops tanker design while Hellenic prepares for court
  • Stelmar Shipping announces sale-lease back of nine of its pre-1990 built vessels
  • Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Fails NASDAQ Listing Test
  • Piraeus, Posidonia and partying

    • Week 18 - 2004
  • China brings the good times back to Greek tycoons
  • PNO calls for creation of body to protect seafarers's rights
  • Compensation to Tasman Spirit victims soon: Ghauri
  • Hellespont boss pledges a return
  • Peter G on CNBC: the people speak out
  • Hanjin Heavy Wins Major Contract
  • ECSI announces strategic alliance with Radio Holland Greece

    • Week 17 - 2004
  • Tasman Spirit staffers set free
  • Spain condemned over Prestige - MEPs back report
  • Express Samina crew lose licences
  • Gov't in no hurry for changes in ship crew composition
  • Market Commentary
  • Thenamaris calls the bottom of the tanker market
  • Italy-bound ferry returns to Greece in bomb scare
  • Citibank, McDonald's look to yachts for safety at Olympic Games
  • Greece Port Becomes Fortress for Olympics
  • Stelmar creates joint venture company with Cape Tankers
  • DNV fleet exceeds 100 million gross
  • People & Companies

    • Week 16 - 2004
  • Hopes rise for tanker 'hostages' held in Pakistan
  • Detained crew of Tasman Spirit to be allowed to go home
  • 30-year age limit will strip ferry fleet of 182 ships
  • Greek-owned ships are fewer but larger; total capacity rising
  • Booming Market - but is it all good for shipping financiers?
  • Kyrenia ship to sail for Greece with copper for Olympic medals
  • Cargo fleet operator pleads guilty in oil-handling case
  • Agreement between Greek Administration and Bureau Veritas
  • Nick Tsakos on Bloomberg television and radio

    • Week 15 - 2004
  • Greeks bucking IMO hull decision
  • Port upgrade promised
  • Greeks riding high on demand for dry handy tonnage
  • Ancient Greek ship replica repaired for Olympics
  • Decision on Tasman crew likely in a week
  • EU to deliver another demarche to Pakistan
  • Festival subsidiary wins reprieve
  • Stelmar invites to join its 1q 2004 earnings conference call
  • Celebrity Cruises Names Vice President, Marine Operations

    • Week 14 - 2004
  • Greek Strike Disrupts Transport, Construction of Olympic Venues
  • Debt level of passenger shipping companies declines after five years
  • Austal's shares up on ferry contract
  • Magouras legal team files plea for bail to human rights court
  • Freighter damages coral reef off Port Everglades
  • John Xylas to Turkey for cement trio
  • Everton fire unfortunate for Polembros
  • ABS Delegation of Authority Expanded in Greece
  • TEN signs letter of intent for the construction of liquefied natural gas tankers
  • People & Companies

    • Week 13 - 2004
  • EU Foreign Ministers urge Pakistan to release detained seafarers
  • 24 crewmembers rescued after oil tanker collision
  • UGS-commissioned study challenges D-H bulker assumptions
  • Managers unite over Karahasan
  • ROC cruise ships to be auctioned this week
  • European visions
  • The Board of Directors of Stelmar Shipping announces board change
  • Preserving Mediterranean biodiversity

    • Week 12 - 2004
  • Politicians keep cruise talks alive
  • Greeks launch newbuilding ordering spree
  • Six-share Villy in Torm mystery

    • Week 11 - 2004
  • Tasman Spirit case shows need for new guidelines
  • Kefaloyannis and Pavlidis named to key shipping portfolios
  • Bulker safety sceptics die hard
  • Ferry firms heartened by 2003 results and debt rescheduling
  • Royal Olympic says cruise ships to be auctioned
  • Festival claims plan is accepted
  • Alafouzos tanker company to debut on Athens Exchange
  • Lloyd's Register first to sign new agreement with Hellenic Republic
  • EVENTS DIARY (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 10 - 2004
  • UK shipper wants local route license
  • Greek action leads to IMO re-think on double-hull regs
  • The Commodore mulls acquistion of Valles Steamship
  • Listless Deb?
  • ATHOC resolve ROC cruise ships accommodation issue for Olympic family
  • “Bow Mariner” search abandoned
  • UPDATE II - Tragic Loss of Bow Mariner
  • Spain still passing buck for Prestige oil disaster
  • Carrier court date set
  • The "Balkan Star" Captain will appear before the prosecutor
  • Seller of Spirits admits big profit
  • EVENTS DIARY (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 09 - 2004
  • Tasman whitewash
  • Angelicoussis decides to withdraw from massive U.S. IPO
  • Minoan, Anek, Nel continue run of good results of ferry operators
  • Suppliers: 'Early end' to Piraeus strike unlikely
  • Bodyguard shootout at shipowner's house
  • EVENTS DIARY (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 08 - 2004
  • Pakistan rejects EU demand for release of tanker crew
  • Prestige official called to testify
  • Cruel sea
  • Royal Olympic denied protection
  • Part of grounded tanker refloated by salvage experts
  • Crew lost as Greek vessel goes down
  • Better weather sees an increase in Greek demand
  • Thenamaris wins green award
  • Stelios sells EasyJet shares to buy cruise ship and hotel
  • Attica Enterprises group results 2003
  • EVENTS DIARY (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 07 - 2004
  • EU demands release of Tasman Spirit crew
  • KPT counsel: Owners among three worst shipping companies of world
  • An upbeat gathering at the Hellenic/Norwegian-American Chambers of Commerce
  • Privatized ports saw improved results over three quarters in '03
  • Zim Lines gets stroppy with Piraeus port
  • Piraeus deliveries halted as Customs get snowed in
  • Greece paralysed by worst snow in decade
  • Festival in sea of rumours
  • Royal Olympic Cruises awaits Greek court decision
  • Genmar pays down debt, strengthens balance sheet
  • EVENTS DIARY (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 06 - 2004
  • Commission decides to send a letter of formal notice to Greece
  • Greece rejects charge of obstructing deregulation in coastal shipping
  • Newbuildings put Greece at the forefront of quality shipping
  • Cruise industry facing demise
  • Let the Festival continue
  • Cruise crews get $5m payoff
  • Piraeus numbers track crude bulls
  • Mitropoulos to speak at the Piraeus Marine Club
  • DNV Piraeus launch website on in-town training courses
  • EVENTS DIARY (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 05 - 2004
  • Illegals target Greek port lorries
  • Festival looks for a partner
  • Royal Olympic companies seek bankruptcy protection
  • Cruise ship industry worries
  • Huge potential offered by untapped cruise market
  • Perama shipyard on the brink of closure
  • Spain pressed to let Prestige captain free
  • Greek refinery stock-take interrupts Piraeus prompt
  • SSBA member joins Greek dry cargo brokerage
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 04 - 2004
  • Tasman Spirit's crew may be freed
  • Ship sinks as snowstorms create havoc in east Med
  • New round of innovative ship ordering by Greek owners
  • Festival fighting for its survival
  • Greece, Turkey sign for extension of Ignatia Highway
  • Stelios confirms his cruise ambitions
  • O.W. Bunker & Seka to cooperate at Crete bunker station
  • Bid to find lost Persian armada
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 03 - 2004
  • Greek president receives IMO secretary general
  • Greek shipping's dire straits: cruise sector is the worst affected
  • Prestige effect splits finance market
  • Troubled captain up for award
  • Tasman Spirit petition against KPT and others adjourned
  • Royal Olympic signs agreement with German banks
  • Greek Fleet Facts
  • SSBA shipping & business executives appoint Greek Representative
  • Marine Money Greek office organize 1st Istanbul Ship Finance Forum
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 02 - 2004
  • Greek's Karachi torment grows
  • Mitropoulos has his work cut out
  • Double-hull tankers could be unsafe, experts maintain
  • Royal Olympic races clock
  • Nightmare end to dream cruises
  • A not so Easy way to success
  • Greek ferry arrives at Fosen Mek.
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 01 - 2004
  • Greek-Italian cooperation against illegal immigration
  • Greek spending hits new record
  • Greek official shows concern for Tasman's crew
  • Royal Olympia Rumblings
  • Potamianos retires, just for a day
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 52 - 2003
  • Confusion over Greek ferry move
  • Judge recommends $1.5M award to Cat Financial in Greek boat lease deal that soured
  • Freighter crew escapes wreck to end in prison
  • Worst ever Christmas - Nikos Pappas
  • Royal Olympia put under debt pressure for two star cruisers
  • ROC optimistic that impasse over two cruisers will be overcome
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 51 - 2003
  • Nine people face trial over Greek ferry disaster
  • Israel Shipyards readies Olympic patrol vessel
  • The magic of ice class
  • P&Is on Greek grill
  • Greek tanker operators on pre-christmas S&P spree
  • Royal Olympic files two subsidiaries in tussle with KFW
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 50 - 2003
  • EU leaders reach deal on agency sites
  • Court backs EU over shipping cartel
  • London meetings on port and ship safety and Greek shipping
  • Parallel register sets two lines of argument
  • Musharraf asked to get TS crew released before Christmas
  • Greece, Turkey seek to extend Egnatia highway to Istanbul
  • S'pore law firm lays anchor in Greek shipping hub
  • Floating hotels for Olympics in Greece
  • Olympic Airways changes name, strategy but keeps rings
  • Stelmar announces Sale-Lease Back of two aframax aessels
  • Reliable Fortis steps up for Stelmar sale/leaseback 
  • ABN extends 75% LTV on Dynacom suesmax 
  • Increased support by long-time backers
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 49 - 2003
  • Greeks launch policy review
  • Ferry owners are still seeking legislative changes
  • IMO must adapt to changing conditions
  • Update on Permanent Means of Access (PMA)
  • Owners say premium hikes are too costly
  • Transparency - The P&I Perspective Seminar at the Piraeus Marine Club
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 48 - 2003
  • Ministerial decision on tax exemption of offshore companies
  • Marpol rethink panics Greeks
  • Greek-Turkish tax pact key benefit regards shipping industry
  • ABS strengthens Greek presence with key appointments
  • BV backs “inevitable” double-hull bulker designs
  • Danaos awarded LR Software Conformity Assessment Certificate
  • Festival unveils Mexico-Jamaica-Cuba cruises
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 47 - 2003
  • Ferry fire, passenger ire
  • Paschalidis unveils proposals including a parallel register
  • Increased support for EMSA move to Sweden
  • Greece ignores owner’s advice
  • Greeks get foot on LNG ladder
  • Bureau Veritas: 8th meeting of the Hellenic Marine Technical Committee
  • Attica Group 9 months result 2003
  • Superfast Ferries maintain leading position
  • Strong increase of Strintzis’ Group (Blue Star Ferries)
  • Royal Olympic Holds Annual Meeting
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 46 - 2003
  • Fierce fight seen over Aegean Sea shipping routes
  • Steel recovered from Prestige refutes allegations of poor maintenance
  • Anniversary of Prestige brings reactions from environment lobby
  • Niarchos quits shipping in wake of 'Prestige' and 'Tasman Spirit'
  • Members only - The IACS Catch-22
  • Alang-ward Trio
  • KG market, Salamon roaring to strong year end finish
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation files shelf registration with the SEC
  • Samos set on growth
  • ELPE 9M:03 profit up 39% y-o-y
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 45 - 2003
  • Younger ships
  • Greek bunkering continues fine run
  • S & P Market Report
  • Tanker owners fined for spill
  • Hellenic class society takes powerful message to London
  • Martechma: Keep it simple
  • Hospitality cruiseship sails into Piraeus for Athens 2004 Olympics
  • Greek ship finance expert elected to Odfjell's Board
  • Georgiopoulos named CMA 2004 Commodore
  • People and Companies
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 44 - 2003
  • ESCA Report 2002-2003: Greece
  • New EU guidelines encourage shippers to fly European flags
  • Tasman Spirit: Court dismisses bail applications of crew
  • Detention of Nicholas Pappas
  • Tasman Spirit: the American Club press update
  • Spain rejects Mangouras appeal
  • Al-Qaida tip prompts ship search
  • Busy two years for shipowner-backed First Business Bank
  • Salamon closes KG for Dynacom suezmax
  • Above the average
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 43 - 2003
  • Method vs impulsive efficiency
  • Tasman Spirit heads to court
  • KPT claims Rs102.6b for Tasman disaster
  • Minoan Lines on route to financial strength
  • Fincantieri will create two car-carriers for Neptune Lines
  • Eurocarriers confident of smooth title transfers
  • Thenamaris’ ISPS code approved by LR
  • Stelmar Shipping Ltd. Reports Third Quarter 2003 Results
  • General Maritime Achieves Record Nine Month Profits
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 42 - 2003
  • Lender frowns on twin-hull bulkers
  • Croatian shipyard delivers large tanker to Greek client
  • American Club hardens Tasman stance
  • P&I costs driven higher by surge in dry cargo claims
  • Minoan Lines sold HSF Prometheus for undisclosed amount
  • Saudi contract for Greek firm
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 41 - 2003
  • Marine Money/Fortis event sets new records in Greece
  • Bank financing to Greek shipowners showing sharp rise
  • EEE calls for global single-hull rules
  • Backing single-hulls could put reputation on the line
  • Tasman Spirit: Pakistan rejects Greek govt request
  • Pakistan seeks Greek govt’s help to settle damages claims
  • Shipping register shows net rise in vessels, tonnage
  • Greece welcomes EU ruling on safety for ships, ports
  • People & Companies
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 40 - 2003
  • Greek FM to step in over tanker crew arrest
  • Tasman Spirit crew get bail
  • Mangouras: the long wait goes on
  • Ermis tanker caught in sizzling row between oil traders
  • It's just the start as Piraeus Marine Club goes on line
  • Marine Money & Tsakos Energy Navigation celebrate together
  • TEN dividend creates healthy 6.5% yield
  • Greece and Russia distribute ENCs via Primar Stavanger
  • Major event on business between Europe and the Arab world in Piraeus
  • Swedish Club strengthens Piraeus office
  • Minoan ship replica to sail seas
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 39 - 2003
  • Greece to attack double-hull rule
  • Rustbucket detained seven times
  • Merchant marine minister issues message in light of Merchant Marine Day
  • Shipping welcomes inclusion in government alignment charter
  • Shipping again looking at the Athens Stock Exchange
  • Greek shipping executive recovering after shooting
  • Mazarakis shooting a pro job?
  • Tasman Spirit crew to be charged
  • ECSA’S High Level Ferry Group proposed recast of the 6th vat directive
  • General Maritime signs time charter contracts for up to nine Aframax OBO vessels
  • A Greek tragedy on the high seas
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 38 - 2003
  • Greek owners call for creative and realistic national shipping policy
  • Brown’s plans to tax shipowners to be revealed 'shortly'
  • Basil talks tough on vessel safety
  • Refinery firms’ shareholders approve merger
  • Maersk sells tanker to Tsakos Group
  • Marfin interested in a controlling stake in General
  • Danaos announced next version of Info@GATE
  • The Untold Story
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 37 - 2003
  • Paschalidis blow for Greek terminal
  • Buccaneer
  • Alafouzos company heads for listing on Athens Exchange
  • JP Morgan analyst Chappell is back- and bearish!!
  • MMA representatives in Karachi finding it difficult to interview pilot
  • Technip Wins a Major Refinery Expansion Project in Greece
  • Lockheed Martin to provide Waterway Safety System for 2004 Olympic Games
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation exercises options for two Ice Class Suezmax tankers
  • HSBC Greece appointment
  • Piraeus Bank - Bank of the Year
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 36 - 2003
  • Government stalls as shipowners warn of ‘exodus’
  • Greece laments the decline of EU seafarers
  • Greek ports need to accelerate restructuring projects
  • Panayiotides busy under Excel Maritime cover
  • Pakistan claims one billion dollars in damages from Greek oil tanker
  • UGS president to address Greek Ship Finance Forum
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 35 - 2003
  • Shipowners, Shipping Chamber request reinforcement of control of commercial ships.
  • Spain admit getting Prestige figures wrong
  • Neorion Shipyards completed cruise ship
  • Job too tight for shipyard
  • Tourist cruise ship aground
  • Younger ferries burden operators
  • Greek ferry operators see some light on the horizon
  • Going a step higher
  • Stelios sells £20m of easyJet shares
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 34 - 2003
  • Skaramanga Shipyards, Greek Railways will find solution, Tsohatzopoulos
  • Passengers saved from Greek tourist ship
  • Greenpeace halts Huntly coal import from unloading
  • Owners keen to get best of hot scrap market
  • Tsakos’ elegant M&A
  • Constantakopoulos awarded “man of the year” by the Athens Propeller Club
  • MMA investigating Tasman Spirit accident
  • Pakistan launches probe into worst ever oil spill
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 33 - 2003
  • Minister announces series of measures for Thessaloniki Port
  • Greek owners slam new rules
  • Malta-flagged freighter sinks off the Greek coast
  • Tasman Spirit: engines to blame?
  • Pakistan fines oil tanker owners
  • Tasman Spirit's dubious past points to major scandal
  • Vodafone – Hellas Flying Dolphins
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 32 - 2003
  • Greek Fleet Facts
  • Aegean transhipment worries Greeks
  • Navigators rejects big-money claim on Coulouthros yacht
  • Galeforce winds disrupt coastal shipping
  • GE Oil & Gas to supply compressors for Greek refinery expansion
  • Fire extinguisher blows ship
  • Tsakos Energy and Lauritzen-Kosan agree to dissolve joint venture
  • The Effectiveness of Double Hull Tankers (DHT) in reducing oil spillage
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 31 - 2003
  • High-speed "bus" to link Piraeus, Glyfada, Varkiza, Lavrion, Rafina
  • Minoan transferred Forthnet voting rights to ABN Amro
  • Futures pioneers blaze Greek trail
  • Port of Piraeus blasted for poor container service
  • Maersk Sealand isolates Piraeus Port problems with new feeder service
  • Port of Piraeus goes public - hopes to raise 70 million euros
  • Tasman Spirit: Tsavliris called in
  • Tasman Spirit: new controversy
  • Oil tanker acquisitions paying off for General Maritime
  • TEN: Net income rises 746% compared with 2nd quarter of 2002
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 30 - 2003
  • Greece in more trouble with EC
  • Greek ferries up, Japanese stocks dive
  • Age law will seriously deplete coastal ferry fleet
  • OLP's IPO oversubscribed more than 10 times
  • Negligence’ in Samina sinking
  • Hydrofoil strikes reef, four passengers slightly injured
  • Greek ferry Captain faces court
  • Mersey mission bids to bring liner home
  • Are Italians planning "a coup d'etat" in Minoan Lines ?
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Continues Fleet Expansion
  • General Maritime Corp announces 2nd Quarter and 1st Half 2003 financial results
  • Greek Ship Finance Forum - October 2003 - Selected Speakers and Topics
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 29 - 2003
  • EU set to pay Spain euro8.6m for Prestige clean-up
  • Everard blasts Brussels over post-Prestige ‘failures’
  • New India rules hit Greeks hard
  • Technical managers call for slow-down on D-H bulkers
  • Piraeus Port Authority to hold IPO on July 23-25
  • The cost of cutting corners
  • Why Teekay bought a piece of Torm - So what happens next?
  • 9th AGM of Hellenic Hull Mutual
  • Stelmar announces 18-month time charter with ChevronTexaco for D-H Handymax
  • TEN announces extension of time charter for suezmax Silia T
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 28 - 2003
  • Anomeritis dumped in low-key government reshuffle
  • Rough times for IMO man
  • Hellenic merchant fleet statistics
  • Greek ferry sector at loggerheads
  • Greece faces EU Court over levies on ships
  • P&I dismay over 'grey zone claim'
  • Ukrainian seamen arrested in Greece ask embassy for legal protection
  • ATHENS 2004 President stands godmother to fast patrol vessel ‘Lieutenant Daniolos’
  • ELPE – PETROLA: The new oil giant
  • Costamare orders five XXL Containerships
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Announces Expansion of Newbuilding Program
  • Attica Enterprises ship to Australian TT-Line
  • One in five journalists has memory problems
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 27 - 2003
  • Anomeritis dumped in reshuffle
  • Greek shipowners argue single-hull tanker phase-out amounts to confiscation
  • Greek tankermen plan to claim compensation over s-h withdrawal
  • 'Motorways of the Sea' Launched in Europe
  • Greece and Cyprus sign agreement of cooperation in merchant shipping
  • Greek ship owners prefer Malta flag to Cyprus
  • Heliport to be built in port of Piraeus
  • Piraeus Port Authority is to be listed on ATHEX
  • Greek passenger shipping firms threatened by age limit rule
  • Rumblings at passenger lines in Greece
  • Minoan wary of Italians talking peace
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 26 - 2003
  • Greek shipping industry & officials receive IMO election result with profound satisfaction
  • Piraeus at a crossroads
  • UK taxation status still on agenda
  • EP environment committee demands inquiry into prestige disaster
  • Dynamite ship was sailing illegally, officials say
  • Row over explosives seizure gathers pace
  • OSE, shipyard at odds over carriage-building contracts
  • Annual Meeting of Bureau Veritas Hellenic & Black Sea Committee
  • Odysseus bound for Iraq
  • Stelios planning EasyCruise line
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 25 - 2003
  • Efthimios Mitropoulos elected new IMO Secretary-General
  • Shipping exchange inflows up 9.4 percent in 2002
  • Hellenic Register of Shipping reorganized
  • Blair ally calls for tax clampdown on foreign tycoons
  • Extend security training to ships' crews and port employees
  • Intrigue surrounding Torm shareholders
  • Gas ship owner in the shadows
  • Mangouras breaks silence
  • Hellenic Navy Frigates Automation Upgrade
  • Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Inc. Reports Loss for 2002
  • Minoan boosts Adriatic link
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 24 - 2003
  • Press releases: Maritime Transport Ministers’ Council
  • The EU can’t do anything without our approval
  • Anomeritis: the Aegean should become a sea of peace
  • Green warriors come to Greece
  • ECSA’s s high level ferry group re-activated
  • Offshore companies to be given extension for property transfer
  • 2000 new vessels for Danaos in 12 months
  • Bourse authorities to probe share moves of oil firms set for merger
  • Hellenic Petroleum snaps up Dubai tanker
  • S&P Market Report May 2003
  • Japan trader books Suezmax ship for Iraqi oil
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 23 - 2003
  • Greece leaves mark on new strategy for EU shipping
  • Greek ships get bigger and younger
  • Greek shipping warns 2010 scrapping of single-hulls could disrupt oil flows
  • Greek owners may keep Athens stock market on ice
  • ABN AMRO Greece - fighting fit in shipping
  • Springfield's fleet of 17 VLCC's and Dry Cargo Vessels switch to Marlink Service
  • ROC consider resuming 7-day Greek islands, Egypt, Jerusalem, Turkey cruises
  • Festival to drum up fresh capital
  • IBIA 2003 - Keynote Speech
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 22 - 2003
  • Outcome of the Informal Ministerial Meeting
  • "Curious" effect of Prestige on ship finance market
  • Renewed fears over EU phase-out of single skin tankers
  • Sinking heightens Bosporus concern
  • Russia asks UN to press Turks over Bosphorus ships
  • Shipping magnate offers sympathetic ear to road hauliers
  • Menlo wins business from European Navigation Inc.
  • New DNV chief fills agenda in Piraeus
  • ISPS code and safety of bulk carriers
  • Service Excellence in Piraeus – The Club Perspective
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 21 - 2003
  • Greek vessels enters “white list”
  • EU ministers agree to back quality shipping, public transport
  • Excerpt of Speech by Anomeritis at the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Patmos
  • Danaos and KEXIM shake hands
  • Polys reviews his aframax candidates
  • Peraticos close to the end
  • Announcement: Piraeus Marine Club - 35th anniversary celebration
  • Russian passengers to embark at St. Petersburg in sell-out ‘Mistral’ Baltic cruises
  • People & Places
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 20 - 2003
  • Working Document: Informal Ministerial Meeting for Transport and Merchant Marine
  • Ship held over safety fears as crew starves
  • Greeks deny union charges of crew neglect
  • Greece urged to recruit more mariners from Bangladesh
  • Shipping loans
  • Danaos prepares signing of contractual agreement with KEXIM
  • easyCruise set for 2004 debut and it will be just one ship
  • Greek Fleet Facts
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 19 - 2003
  • Efthymiou in pursuit of a rational & comprehensive maritime policy
  • European Commission's proposals for penal sanctions for ship-source pollution
  • 7 Greeks in WWII boat coke bust
  • €185M PLAN to serve 'unprofitable' routes pushed ahead
  • Hindrances to building pipeline are overcome
  • Madrid pursues Prestige prosecutions
  • Oil slick tanker victims to receive payout
  • Italian cruise firm challenges Carnival, P&O deal
  • Tsakos Energy Navigation Reports Record Profits For The First Quarter of 2003
  • A yacht - why not?
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 18 - 2003
  • Piraeus shipbuilding zone becomes a company
  • London owners urge EU shipping nations to seize last chance
  • Greece - Key Facts, Economy
  • S&P Market Statistics
  • Fortis moves to take control of Delphic fleet
  • Essco Spirit detention lifted
  • Cargo Ship Ablaze in Black Sea After Tanker Rams
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 17 - 2003
  • Transport ministers goes to sea
  • EESC calls for speedier and stricter measures against sea pollution
  • Economic Outlook: Coastal shipping report
  • Newbuilds power recovery of Greek registry
  • Two and Two make Five - added value of SWISSMARINE
  • Pressure mounts on Pegasus fleet
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 16 - 2003
  • Greek shipping tycoon dies
  • Christodoulakis "do not wait" warning disappoints owners
  • Unilateral ship measures could boomerang
  • President of IBIA reflects on "unpleasant surprises"
  • Rasmussen and Sanyo Hellas battle over 16% stake in Torm
  • Economou with possible sale lease back
  • Stelios set to cruise
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 15 - 2003
  • Prestige continue to "rock the boat"
  • EU plans Marpol revision
  • Shipping boom could boost GDP by 0.6 pct
  • Greeks deal heavily in secondhand tankers
  • Target reaps bulker bonus
  • Passenger shipping companies disappoint at the stock market
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 14 - 2003
  • Greek EU presidency welcomes outcome of sea transport meeting
  • Unions win case against Greek government
  • Taiwan to sue Greek ship owner over oil spill
  • Greece's Med trading owners "are fighting to survive"
  • Hellenic Hull in revival
  • Greater need for PR during tough times
  • Union of Greek Shipowners bestow awards
  • Greek Newbuildings - Statistics March 2003
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 13 - 2003
  • Greek Top Performers of 2002
  • Shipping firms sail to wartime fortunes
  • War-related risks to merchant shipping remain minimal
  • Anomeritis hopes for EU support in rebuilding aging trading fleet
  • EU measures on sea Transportation
  • E.U. agrees to ban single-hulled tankers in response to Spanish pollution disaster
  • Piraeus Port Statistics
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 12 - 2003
  • Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) becomes a reliable interlocutor with the people in its field
  • Shipowners want friendlier attitudes, more competitive Greek regulations
  • Anomeritis looking for ways to support med fleet renewal
  • Hellenic Forum meet in Athens
  • Prestige captain accuses Spain over oil slick
  • JP steps-up for General Maritime
  • Lykiardopulo gets hots for cape market
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 11 - 2003
  • Owners should try to "future proof" their bulk carriers
  • Shipowners want government to help to meet higher costs
  • Greeks invest $1.2bn in newbuilding projects in eight weeks
  • Delphic boxship quartet seized
  • Huge new ship can't fill up
  • Shipowners fear effect of measures after Prestige
  • Prestige has tanker sector thriving
  • Nikos Ladis elected new president of IBIA
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 10 - 2003
  • Prestige on agenda at top table
  • Anomeritis wants 'Made in Greece' label on EU policy
  • Putin pushes Burgas pipeline
  • Breaking the ice on container feedering
  • Onassis...Forbes...Marine Money
  • Offshore firms gearing up for 3 percent tax
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 09 - 2003
  • Greek merchant marine minister reports on EU agenda
  • Union of Greek Shipowners voiced opinion in Bussel
  • Shipping, the economy booster, starts trickling home to register
  • OLP boss Theofanis speaks of imminent ASE listing
  • Evripos scoops fourth bulker in a year
  • Visible and Invisible Tragedies
  • Construction of international contracts
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 08 - 2003
  • Speech by Giorgios Anomeritis at the opening ceremony of the ECSA Exhibition
  • EU should show some prudence to rebuild the credibility of its shipping policy
  • Coastal shippers to press demands with ministry
  • Tsakos says vessel in Iraq port not part of Co.'s fleet
  • Greek ship detained in Halifax
  • Ship Explosion: 12 crew, engineers face trial
  • Greek bankers unite to promote Piraeus as ship finance centre
  • Smart young crowd
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 07 - 2003
  • Three cheers for honourable men
  • Dimitris Lyras predicts "massive" fall in number of tanker owners
  • New Greek Banks on the Block
  • Eurofin double act takes centres stage
  • Banks asked to detail credit activity abroad
  • Greece refutes shipping arms, soldiers
  • Greece to extend anti-pollution ship surveillance
  • Greek owners rail at cost of real estate tax reforms
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 06 - 2003
  • Erric B. Kertsikoff co-founder of Eletson has passed away
  • Insurer pays 3mln euros bail for Prestige captain
  • Anomeritis, Committee discuss Greek shipping sector
  • Passenger ship owners to rigorously pursue manning issue
  • Union of Greek Shipowners new Board of Directors
  • Stemnitsa prompts ice debate
  • Minerva Announcement: Stemnitsa - Ice Legitimacy
  • Tsakos' option for AET and other news
  • Elka ups tanker order to $270m
  • STX inks Byzantine, Restis and Target deals
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 05 - 2003
  • Greek-owned ships shifting to national flag
  • Greeks rushing to aid their flag
  • Lloyds List: Greek owners still in dark over details of government package
  • General Maritime announces agreement to acquire 19 tankers
  • Credit Lyonnais returns; focus on corporate clients and investment
  • Bureau Veritas: 7th meeting of the Hellenic Marine Technical Committee
  • Unimarine Services Inaugurate New Offices
  • New shipping branch opened by ABN AMRO Bank
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 04 - 2003
  • Gov't plans to bring more ships under the Greek flag
  • Greek shipfinance key developments and growth
  • London Greeks attack EU's 'ill conceived proposals'
  • Owner urged to bail out Mangouras
  • Target and Restis group going after options at STX
  • Stelmar announces two-year time charters for two newbuildings
  • Unimarine Services Inaugurate New Offices
  • Teen inherits half of Onassis fortune
  • Event Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 03 - 2003
  • To be or not to be, a shipowner
  • Pressure for report on Prestige
  • UGS press release
  • US Coast Guard chief discusses security with gov't, shipowners
  • Greece says more work needed on tanker ban issue
  • Greece defends Prestige captain
  • Minister quits in Prestige row
  • Cash-strapped Cretan giant quits Med service jv with Grimaldi
  • Agelef mum on PDVSA charter
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 02 - 2003
  • Greece blasts Spanish authorities over tanker disaster
  • Captain: Sunken Tanker Suffered Blow
  • A troubled sea of change as Greece takes on EU Presidency
  • IMO: Developments in the aftermath of the "Prestige" accident
  • Nissos Amorgos lawsuits
  • Money laundering made easier
  • Tsakos wins Public Equity Deal of the Year - 2002 Award
  • Eletson and IUM join Marcas
  • Stelios Haji-Ioannou named CMA Commodore
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 01 - 2003
  • Key priorities of Greek EU presidency in maritime transportation
  • Time to bring the boats home
  • Prestige Greek captain protests his innocence
  • Spanish Court Keeps Tanker Captain Jailed
  • Lloyds List: Eastmed in twin Samsung VLCC order
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 52 - 2002
  • Prestige captain 'lashes out'
  • French ban on oil tankers breaks law, warns Greece
  • The history of Greece - written at sea
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 51 - 2002
  • Mangouras remains behind bars
  • France raises Prestige spill stakes
  • Greece to take over the Presidency of the European Council of Ministers
  • Ministry admits issues still to be cleared on lifting of cabotage
  • A new agency to undertake an assessment of salvage provisions in EU waters.
  • Festival Cruises to raise money for Galicia oil spill relief
  • Royal Olympic Cruises honored with prestigious international award
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 50 - 2002
  • Shipping law forum calls for release of 'hostage' tanker master
  • Prestige Casualty - ABS Information Update No.5
  • Lloyds List: Greek is the Baltic's second language
  • Unilateralism rears its ugly head once again
  • Shipbroker's market report: Athenian Sea Carriers and Vafias Group
  • Piraeus' new look in 2004
  • Lavrion port - ambitious plans in sight of 2004
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 49 - 2002
  • Intertanko calls for immediate release of the Prestige captain
  • Enalios Titan to exercise the right to international straits transit
  • Union of Greek Shipowners reflect on Prestige impact
  • Commission adopts Communication on Prestige incident
  • Piraeus is not amused with EU shame list of ships
  • Varvitsiotis on Greek Shipping importance and competitiveness
  • Stelmar confirms change in board
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 48 - 2002
  • Greek tanker incident keeps the Media engaged
  • Greece set to focus on FOC's during upcoming EU presidency
  • Planned tax on offshore firms is bound to hit capital inflows
  • Russia, Greece and Bulgaria set to sign Balkan oil pipeline deal
  • Tanker undeservedly called "ship of horrors"?
  • M/T Magnitude of Milford Haven
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 47 - 2002
  • Greek tanker headlines - 2nd consecutive week
  • Greek Merchant Marine Minister in Malta
  • Shipowner cleared of attempted murder of competitor
  • Underwriting alert as Olympic-size risk takes shape
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 46 - 2002
  • Greek tanker spill fuels intense international media coverage
  • Greek minister Anomeritis discusses future of Cyprus' shipping register
  • TEN confirm expansion of newbuilding program
  • Eletson reports third quarter 2002 results
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 45 - 2002
  • New EC standards to ensure no more Samina tragedies, commissioner says
  • Peraticos: Hellenic Mutual ready to meet war risks challenge
  • Greek coastal shipping liberalised ahead of EU date
  • Piraeus - full speed ahead
  • Hyundai Mipo Dockyard inks Tsakos MR tankers
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 44 - 2002
  • Greek passenger shipping enters a new era
  • Cost of ferry travel goes up
  • Agoudimos buys back 47% stake in seven ferries for euro 15m
  • Liability limits for ship passengers raised with new Athens Convention
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 43 - 2002
  • Current legislative process and framework for listing shipping companies on the Athens Stock Exchange
  • Greeks urge IACS to listen to IMO
  • Greeks seen as ready for new round of newbuilding contracts
  • Greek Pavilion at Europort2003
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 42 - 2002
  • New chairman of the Hellas Committee of Germanischer Lloyd elected
  • Portugal, Greece eye short-sea plan
  • Lloyds List: Tsavliris crew 'suffers at the hands of Indian bureaucracy'
  • Allied's weekly second hand market report
  • Greek operators' love affair with large bulkcarriers continues
  • Vrontados upgrades crew/management systems
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 41 - 2002
  • Strong support for Intertanko at the Hellenic Forum
  • Curtain comes down on spectacular Greek ferry fleet renewal
  • Global Ship Finance Community Converges in Athens
  • TEN appoints Danish shipping expert to its Board of Directors
  • NEL Lines signs innovative agreement with Telestet
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 40 - 2002
  • London Greeks importance underlined in report
  • Dimitris Lyras addressed transparency issues in London
  • Prominent Greek owners to speak at Ship Finance Forum
  • Stelmar selects Ernst & Young
  • A full dozen ferries in the Attica fleet
  • Greek shipsoccer hits the web
  • Fixed-line phone numbers to change again
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 38 - 2002
  • Lyras: What owners really want from a flag state in a highly competitive international industry
  • Gov't dallying over fleet measures said to hurt positive climate
  • 11 luxurious floating hotels for Athens 2004
  • Euro loses drachma advantage (causing steep rise in management and operation cost)
  • Lauritzen and Tsakos in joint venture
  • Rodriquez enters Greek pleasure boat market
  • Events Diary (Piraeus/Athens)

    • Week 37 - 2002
  • New head for Hellas Flying Dolphins
  • Tax change plans threaten future of UK maritime services
  • Anangel boost for Coeclerici
  • Greece reveals EU 2003 agenda
  • Ferry charges diluted
  • Links Directory to Greek Shipping

    • Week 36 - 2002
  • Hellas Flying Dolphins changes skipper
  • Greek capesize orderbook gains additional bulk
  • Seamen appeased
  • Seaborne EU ministers
  • Anek and Nel lines remain in red
  • New changes to phone numbers in Greece

    • Week 35 - 2002
  • Minoan Lines release financial results for the first half of 2002
  • Direct connection of Thessaloniki Port with the national highway network
  • Greek container ship fleet an expanding fringe activity
  • Áttica Group Ferries financial results for first half year 2002

    • Week 34 - 2002
  • Superfast calls on Scots truckers
  • Price spike for Tsakos shares
  • US Coast Guard to transfer patrol boat to Greece
  • Greek Ship Finance Forum
  • Conference on ancient shipbuilding

    • Week 33 - 2002
  • Several prospective buyers interested in Torm shares
  • Stelmar announces two time charter contracts
  • Greek ferry runs East Africa link
  • TEN income crumbles

    • Week 32 - 2002
  • Neorion Shipyards profits improved substantially
  • Alafouzos family to expand shipping operations
  • Stelmar Tankers appoint new managing director
  • Eletson reports second quarter 2002 results

    • Week 31 - 2002
  • Exposure of listed ferry operators seen as 'near red alert'
  • Greek terrorists targeted shipping
  • President of Greek ferry operators resign
  • Greece rejects individual port security deals with US customs
  • Bids unsealed in Attica marinas privatization tender

    • Week 30 - 2002
  • Market Report
  • Tax on boats lands Greece in hot water with EU
  • Stelmar marks 30th consecutive quarter profit
  • Strintzis' Blue Star move heralds battle ahead
  • Conference (Athens): Flag State Quality & Regulatory Governance

    • Week 29 - 2002
  • People & Companies
  • Newbuilding Update
  • Suezmaxes give AM Nomikos a more balanced fleet
  • Petrobulk reassesses crewing policy
  • Cruise ship owners threaten flag change
  • Tsavliris launched salvage appeal

    • Week 28 - 2002
  • Seafarers trapped in Greek port of Astakos by political wrangling
  • Possible merger to create Cretan shipping giant
  • Easy Jet buys out Go Fly

    • Week 27 - 2002
  • Greek supertanker delivers first direct shipment of Russian oil to US
  • New tanker joins Tsakos Energy Navigation
  • Stelmar strategy for success is productive time charter hire
  • Vardinoyannis-led slate takes control of ANEK lines
  • Newbuilding update
  • Sex + Greek food = Healthy life

    • Week 26 - 2002
  • Government owned Catamarans to link islands
  • Sigma colours on Rio-Antirio bridge
  • Warning shot across the bow of Greek ship could signal the end of corrupt flags of convenience

    • Week 25 - 2002
  • Posidonia Statistics
  • Greek Shipmanager relieved of costly burden
  • Embiricos sends clear warning to UK chancellor
  • Shipping Report

    • Week 24 - 2002
  • The CEO of NEL Lines speaks to Economic Outlook Magazine
  • New BOD at Hellenic Shipyards
  • Pacific & Atlantic sets up new fleet management structure
  • Greek ship-repair sector is in for a boost
  • Sloppy crew members sank Express Samina

    • Week 23 - 2002
  • Shipping's public image can be polished
  • Posidonia broke all records - again
  • Pyrsos rows with Swedish Club
  • Hellenic Shipyards sold
  • Greece has until 2004 to allow cabotage - EU

    • Week 22 - 2002
  • Proof of Greek merchant strength
  • Tanker Chartering Seminar at Eletson Corp.
  • Greece rejects US inspection request
  • Complex ferry company merger talks make slow progress
  • Greek strikers scuffle with tourists

    • Week 21 - 2002
  • Media responce training
  • Clash between Elefsis and Hellenic shipyards
  • Hellenic Shipyards sale still in the pipeline

    • Week 20 - 2002
  • Greek Controlled Shipping
  • Piraeus while waiting more money, ships and companies

    • Week 19 - 2002
  • Coastal shipping industry buffeted by sea of red ink
  • Greece resolves management issue
  • Neorion Syros Shipyards to issue 0.12 dividend per share

    • Week 18 - 2002
  • Athens surrounded by cruise ships in August 2004.
  • ROC Lines shift share ownership of ROC Holdings and modify Convertible Note
  • Stelmar grows from 31 to 36 tankers within a week.

    • Week 17 - 2002
  • Hellenic Shipyards deal cleared by EU
  • Piraeus based Stamco orders two more PCC's from Gdania
  • HFD requests survival fare increases in passenger shipping
  • Olympic takes delivery of Olympia Explorer.

    • Week 16 - 2002
  • Superfast redeploy tonnage
  • Festival welcomes the European Stars
  • TEN has entered into two additional time charters
  • Embiricos VLCC heads new march to breakers

    • Week 15 - 2002
  • George Ventouris given judgement in favour
  • Greek owners continue to lead way to the scrapyard

    • Week 14 - 2002
  • Samos pays out for secondhand VLCC
  • EC acts on passenger safety
  • ASE ready for ocean-going shipping

    • Week 13 - 2002
  • Monster tanker readies for April maiden voyage
  • Concern shown by Greek owners over US port security bill

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