As always seafarers are the key element driving the shipping industry and perhaps never more so than today. With politicians and regulators setting much of the industry’s the agenda those working on the ships are doing their utmost to meet the...
A minimum 478 Greek shipping companies will soon begin paying an additional voluntary tax to the country’s treasury, under an agreement hammered out between the Union of Greek Shipowners and the Athens government some 15 months ago.
Volatile freight rates are playing a key role in discussions between Greek and European Central Bank (ECB) officials as the deadline for the Europe-wide bank stress tests looms.
A visit of a top delegation of China's state-owned Fujian Shipbuilding Industry Corp to Greece saw it looking for closer cooperation with Greece's shipyards and suppliers and speculation of it making investment.
China’s ambassador to Greece has joined the increasing clamour for developing closer ties between Beijing and Athens, proposing the two countries cooperate across the wider Mediterranean region and especially in developing trade with Africa.
Increasing business transactions between Greece and China has led to a strengthening of relations and the development of the mutual cooperation in the field of commercial arbitration.
Greece and China have reiterated a pledge to strengthen their "strategic partnership" on the economic and possibly military fronts. This emerged during a meeting between Greek Prime minister, Antonis Samaras and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the...
Things economically are looking up for Greece, the world’s largest shipowning nation, perhaps not as much as we would all like, but the country is regaining its economic footing.
Greece's Energy minister, Yiannis Maniatis spent the first days of July in London launching the country’s most ambitious programme so far to develop its untapped hydrocarbon potential.
Greece’s European Union presidency ended at midnight 30 June. On the eve of handing the baton to Italy, Greece’s Foreign minister Evangelos Venizelos declared the presidency had paved the way for the country to finally emerge from a protracted...