Greeks control the largest merchant fleet ever as total carrying capacity has hit an all-time high and the flow of new tonnage into Greek hands is set to continue. The capacity of the fleet controlled by the country’s owners has now virtually...

With a number of “headline catching” investigations now underway into ship casualties, technical managers of leading shipping companies in Greece and surrounding countries have united to reject IACS' unified interpretation on tank boundaries and...

It has long been recognised that Greeks shipowners are a bunch, who by and large like to do things their way. Though “by and large” is a nautical term – “by” meaning sailing into the wind by tacking, and ‘large’ meaning sailing with the wind fully...

Long awaited privatisation of Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) formally got under way 7 March, with state sell-off fund TAIPED inviting expressions of interest while explaining the tender framework for the sale of a 67% stake in the PPA.

A Turkish container vessel, 547 teu Yusuf Cepnioglu, ran aground on the Greek island of Mykonos over the weekend. According to vesselsvalue.com the 1995-built containership is owned by Furkan Denizcilik of Turkey, and has P&I cover with the...

Though much of the Greek shipping community was bracing itself for Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) end of year report, revelation on 27 February of the bank’s steep increase in shipping-related impairment losses, was more than expected.

With the European Union making great efforts to shift freight movement from land to sea, Greece’s shortsea shipping sector is promoting an ambitious plan to connect shortsea shipping with river transport within, and outside, the EU.

The Greek judiciary's investigation into the country's massive bribe scandal has netted another shipping personality and German industrial group. Sotiris Emmanouil, the former managing director of Hellenic Shipyards, Greece's largest shipyard, was...

Greece is the world’s largest shipowning nation by the value of ships owned, followed by Japan and China.

China’s outgoing ambassador to Greece Du Qiwen says the country’s shipping community have shown competitive advantage in the face of economic crisis.